Happiness is the highest form of health – Dalai Lama
PSHE Stars Autumn Term 2023
PSHE Intent
PSHE forms part of our broad and balanced curriculum. Our PSHE curriculum brings together citizenship and personal well-being, while promoting the British values. British values underpin our learning and are promoted to support our children to become heathy, independent and responsible members of society. We want to help children understand how they are developing personally and socially. We aim to foster our children’s self-esteem and encourage them to embrace challenge. Our teaching emphasises on collaboration, co-operation, kindness as well as showing independence, celebrating their successes and recognising how achievement can be presented in many forms.
PSHE Implementation
PSHE is taught throughout the school during daily collective worships, circle times, weekly lessons, Wellbeing Wednesday and through interventions. We follow the Connect programme for our weekly lessons, where all the children follow different topics on a half-termly basis. Key national campaigns and global events are focussed on throughout the year e.g. Children Mental Health week, Random Acts of Kindness Week and Children in Need etc…
PSHE Impact
- Children know how to keep themselves and others safe.
- Children demonstrate and apply the British Values of Democracy, Tolerance, Mutual respect, Rule of law and Liberty.
- Children have an understanding about relationships, friendships and how to communicate with people.
- Children are able to talk about Wellbeing and recognise what they can do to improve their own wellbeing.
- Children demonstrate a healthy outlook towards school and can recognise what makes an effective learner.
- Children have emotional resiliency and become responsible members of society.
- Children are prepared for their ‘life’ journey and work in modern Britain.
As a result of this, children achieve age-related expectations across the wider curriculum. However, we are aware that the delivered curriculum must reflect the needs of our pupils. We expect teachers to use the PSHE programme (adapting it where necessary to ensure it suits all pupils’ needs) to equip pupils with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions now and in later life. Through PSHE, the children will develop the vocabulary and confidence needed to articulate their thoughts and feelings in a safe, trusting, respectful environment taking what they have learnt to their everyday interactions from the classroom to the wider community.
