Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE)

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Intent

High quality PSHE supports pupils’ personal, social, health and economic development. It helps to give pupils the knowledge, skills, strategies and attributes to help them make informed choices and decisions about the different opportunities and challenges life presents.

At William Harding School, pupils will learn about relationships, health and wellbeing, keeping safe, managing their off and online lives, living in the wider world and financial education.

Providing high quality PSHE curriculum gives pupils opportunities to ask questions and explore issues that are real and relevant to them in a safe and managed environment.

Our PSHE provision at William Harding extends beyond the curriculum and includes focused learning days/ weeks, assemblies, debates, developing effective learning characteristics and fully supports our school’s ethos and values. PSHE is an integral part of William Harding’s broad and balanced curriculum supporting spiritual, moral, social and cultural education, equalities, British values and safeguarding.  We ensure meaningful cross curricular links are made to enable our pupils to understand how these skills can be applied in everyday life.

Our PSHE provision has been designed to be age appropriate and progressive, whilst being sensitive to the needs of our whole school community to ensure PSHE provision gives our pupils an education which supports them now and prepares them for the future. Our PSHE provision is underpinned by the 2010 Equalities duty and provides an inclusive curriculum that promotes understanding and mutual respect for all.

Implementation

At William Harding School, statutory units of relationships education, health education and economic education are taught through specific PSHE lessons as well as focused learning days, assemblies and our personal development curriculum. We also teach relevant themes to support our pupils to manage their lives both now and in the future.

Teaching PSHE within school

At William Harding School PSHE is timetabled every other half term and supplemented with assemblies and other opportunities of learning.  , (please see overview for specific details) and is delivered by class teachers or PPA cover teachers. The PSHE curriculum has been designed to help pupils develop their knowledge, vocabulary and skills over time, embedding learning and providing relevant education to support them in their lives now and in the future.

We strive to provide our children with first hand experiences to learn about the world we live in. We make meaningful links across the curriculum and provide the children with opportunities to learn from others.

At William Harding School we use Jigsaw as a basis to deliver PSHE. The Jigsaw program is adapted to provide a relevant and age appropriate curriculum for William Harding pupils. We also follow the William Harding way general lesson structure using metacognition, an ‘I do We do’ structure and vocabulary focus to provide a progressive curriculum to ensure pupils are taught key aspects of PSHE at a relevant and age appropriate level and in line with their continuing personal and social development. This is monitored and reviewed by the subject team as needed.

Relationships Education

Our PSHE curriculum covers statutory Relationships education (please see Relationships policy for further information). Relationships education at William Harding focuses on teaching the fundamental building blocks and characteristics of positive and healthy relationships, with particular reference to friendships, family relationships, and relationships with other children and adults both in person and online. By the end of their primary schooling, pupils will have been taught content on:

-          Families and people who care for us,

-          Caring friendships

-          Respectful relationships

-          Online relationships

-          Being safe

-          Healthy & unhealthy relationships

Sex Education

As part of our PSHE provision we teach sex education. This is an important and recommended aspect of the PSHE curriculum. As a non-statutory element of PSHE, parents and carers have the right to withdraw from designated sex education lessons in key stage 2. We encourage parents and carers to come and talk through any concerns they may have and make an informed choice about whether to exercise the right to withdraw their child. Please see our sex education policy for further information.

Health Education

We deliver statutory Health education through our PSHE curriculum. The aim of teaching pupils about physical and mental wellbeing is to give them the information that they need to make good decisions about their own health and wellbeing. It should enable them to recognise what is normal and what is an issue with regards to themselves and others and if an issue arises, know how to seek the right support as early as possible from a safe and trusted source.

By the end of their primary schooling, pupils at William Harding will have been taught content on:

-          Mental wellbeing

-          Internet safety and harms

-          Physical health and fitness

-          Healthy eating

-          Facts and risks associates with drugs, alcohol and tobacco

-          Health prevention

-          Basic first aid and medicines

-          Changing adolescent body*

*The changing adolescent body and puberty education is part of the statutory Health Education curriculum and is mandatory for all pupils. We teach the correct scientific names of all body parts from year 1 and a list of key vocabulary. Introducing the scientific names of genitalia is recommended by the NSPCC, the PSHE Association and is recognised good practice.

Economic Education

Our PSHE curriculum covers economic education and life skills for living in the wider world. Pupils will learn about managing money, saving and enterprise skills through lessons and a range of experiences.

Personal Safety

In PSHE pupils learn about personal safety and the law. To enhance the children’s knowledge of British Values and the laws within the United Kingdom, the School Council pupils visit the Houses of Parliament to learn about the importance of democracy and their rights and responsibilities as a citizen and share this with their peers.

Should a pupil make a disclosure to a member of staff, this will be reported as per William Harding policy, to a designated safeguarding lead and followed up in accordance with our disclosure procedures. Please see our safeguarding policy on the school website for any further information.

Impact

Our high quality PSHE supports pupils’ personal, social, health and economic development. It helps to give pupils the knowledge, skills, strategies and attributes to help them make informed choices and decisions about the different opportunities and challenges life presents in order to become successful and considerate citizens of the world.

Our pupils will understand:

·         PSHE provision provides pupils with well- chosen opportunities and contexts to embed new knowledge and skills that can be used confidently in real life situations.

·         Pupils know how and when to ask for help and where to access support.

·         Pupils are well informed and recognise the risks they may encounter both on and off line and are able to make safe choices.

·         Pupils are enabled to take responsibility for their actions and understand the implications and consequences of their own decisions.

·         Pupils are well prepared for the next stages of their lives.

·         Pupils have the knowledge, skills and attributes to live healthy, happy lives.