PSHE

You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because you are to be feared; all you do is strange and wonderful. I know it with all my heart. When my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother’s womb, when I was growing there in secret, you knew that I was there—you saw me before I was born.


(Psalms 139: 13-18)

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Our Curriculum

At St William’s Catholic Primary School, our curriculum stems from our Mission Statement: 

 

‘By following Jesus’ example, standing side by side, we will nurture each other to fulfil our hopes and dreams’. 

 

We are passionate about helping every child to fulfil their potential and become an all-round versatile citizen with the skills needed to succeed in life. We design our curriculum to ensure it is fully inclusive of every child and that it addresses each aspect of how a child develops, progresses and grows both academically and emotionally. We recognise that we live in a rapidly changing digital world and at St William’s we want to enable our children to not just learn WHAT to think, but HOW to think by developing intellectual learning behaviours. ‘Thinking’ is at the heart of our curriculum because our intent is to future proof our children so they become independent and resilient citizens. 


  • Intent

    At St William’s Catholic Primary school our PSHE curriculum intends to provide values-based, progressive content that promotes positive behaviour, mental health, wellbeing, resilience and achievement. Research shows that there is a link between a pupil’s wellbeing and positive mental health and academic achievement.  Therefore, in order for our children to learn and be well, they need to have good mental health, resilience and the ability to keep themselves safe. Through our PSHE curriculum, we aim to equip children with these attributes and the skills to implement them in different contexts. We ensure that taught content is fully aligned to the PSHE Association Framework in order to provide our children with a comprehensive and progressive curriculum. In order to tailor PSHE to the needs of our pupils, we carefully combine chosen resources that make up our full PSHE offer. 

  • Implementation

    • All our year groups have timetabled RSHE and PSHE lessons.


    • Stimulating RSHE and PSHE lessons using the SCARF scheme of work ensures progression, development and consolidation of the knowledge, understanding and skills our pupils need.


    The programme aligns fully with St William’s Catholic Primary School’s mission statement DREAM and therefore provides a strong foundation for our relationships and health curriculum.  SCARF covers both the DfE statutory requirements and the PSHE association advisory content, which together ensure a comprehensive, spiral curriculum for our PSHE education. The curriculum is broken down into six strands;


    1. Me and my relationships

    2. Valuing difference

    3. Keeping myself safe

    4. Rights and responsibilities

    5. Being my best

    6. Growing and changing


    Children explore these strands year-on-year, building a toolkit of strategies and knowledge which they apply in scenario-based lessons, giving them the opportunity to ask questions and practise the skills in a safe and caring environment.


    • Through assemblies, trips and visitors to school provide plenty of opportunities for skills to be consolidated across the school day to support children.
    • By fully understanding our children and families, and making use of local health data in order to address area needs. For example: provide additional lessons surrounding debt awareness, dental hygiene and health relationships.
    • Follow the Archdiocese recommended programme ‘A Journey In Love’ to support our delivery of Sex Education.
    • Enrich each child’s learning journey at St William’s through additional opportunities.
    • Promote British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs to prepare our pupils for life in modern day Britain.
    • Build an aware community: pupils learn about similarities and differences between people and cultures.
    • Enable children to affect peaceful change within society and with each other understanding British democratic process.
    • Progress in RSHE and PSHE is monitored through the year to identify further areas of development.
    • PSHE assessment is measured against the pupil’s own starting points.
    • Children also reflect on their own RSHE and PSHE learning to further their own progress and development.

    The majority of our PSHE coverage uses SCARF as starting point to build upon. The programme aligns fully with St William’s Catholic Primary School’s mission statement DREAM and therefore provides a strong foundation for our relationships and health curriculum.  SCARF covers both the DfE statutory requirements and the PSHE association advisory content, which together ensure a comprehensive, spiral curriculum for our PSHE education. The curriculum is broken down into six strands;


    1. Me and my relationships

    2. Valuing difference

    3. Keeping myself safe

    4. Rights and responsibilities

    5. Being my best

    6. Growing and changing


    Children explore these strands year-on-year, building a toolkit of strategies and knowledge which they apply in scenario-based lessons, giving them the opportunity to ask questions and practise the skills in a safe and caring environment.


    By fully understanding our children and families, and making use of local health data, we tailor our PSHE curriculum to address the needs we have identified in these areas. Our curriculum offer is therefore bespoke to our children and our community. In support of this we provide additional lessons such a debt awareness, dental hygiene and healthy relationships. 


  • Impact

    • Children will be caring, respectful, responsible, and confident individuals and citizens through PSHE and RSHE learning. 

    • Children will have the knowledge of how to develop their self-esteem and self-awareness and make informed choices and decisions.

    • They will be able to make sense of their own personal and social experiences and will be able to understand and manage their own feelings.

    • Children will demonstrate and apply the British Values of Democracy, Tolerance, Mutual Respect, Rule of Law and Individual Liberty 

    • Children will demonstrate a healthy outlook towards school.

    • Children will demonstrate understanding of how to keep themselves healthy.

    • Children will understand how to keep themselves safe at school, in the community and locality and wider world (including online)

    • Children will develop positive and healthy relationships with peers, both now and in the future

    • Children will understand the physical and emotional aspects involved in RSHE at an age-appropriate level.

    • Children will have respect for themselves.

    • Children will have positive body images.

    The impact and measure of implementation is to ensure children not only acquire the appropriate age related knowledge linked to the curriculum, but also skills which equip them to progress from their starting points. In shaping our curriculum this way, progress can be measured and evidenced for all children, regardless of their starting points or specific need. 


    We shall assess the impact of our curriculum by high quality teacher assessment, formal assessments for core subjects (including NFER), effective intervention and support, the use of nationally standardised tests in core subjects, professional reflection and consultation with pupils and parents and other means of external support. These methods will ensure teaching is matched to learning needs and pupils build learning blocks and competences as they grow. We will also mentor their attitudes to self and school and enhance their personal development.


  • RSHE: A Journey In Love

    What is RSHE ‘A Journey in Love’ for Parents?


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  • Key Documentation

  • Guidance for Parents

    PSHE as a subject is not just learnt within the classroom, good PSHE Education is a partnership between the child’s home and school and there are lots of things you can do as a parent/carer to support your child’s journey.

    Allowing your child to talk about PSHE topics at home can be a really good way for them to explore and contextualise some of the content. If you have time, research some of the areas you know are coming up in your child’s PSHE programme, and anticipate any awkward questions. Also, be honest if you can’t answer a question, we can’t be expected to know everything from first aid, to online safety but you can listen to your child and explore these areas further together. 

    For additional and information you might felt helpful, please see our ‘Useful Links’ section 


    RSHE

    A Journey in Love EYFS Parents meeting

    A Journey in Love Y1 Parents meeting

    A Journey in Love Y2 Parents meeting

    A Journey in Love Y3 Parents meeting

    A Journey in Love Y4 Parents meeting

    A Journey in Love Y5 Parents meeting

    A Journey in Love Y6 Parents meeting


    DFE Primary School Guidance

    FAQ About RSHE


  • Useful Links


    Mindful Moments 


    30 second visualisation and breathing exercise - star

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-3n5iBi4u0

     

    30 second visualisation and breathing exercise - dome

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEGnXTiaNIM

     

    30 second visualisation and breathing exercise - pyramid

    https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpI9bm3lTQw


PSHE In Action

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