At Albrighton Primary School and Nursery, we believe that a PSHE curriculum is essential in the education of all pupils. We understand that a high-quality PSHE education should enable our children to become happy, healthy, independent and responsible members of a society. Our PSHE curriculum will equip pupils with knowledge to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. It will also provide them with the skills needed to live within the wider world, form healthy relationships, maintain a healthy lifestyle and keep safe. We believe that the knowledge and skills that intertwine within PSHE learning are vital in not only a child’s education, but also in their wider life. As such, our PSHE curriculum will support our pupils to be prepared for the next stage in their young lives and to live responsibly in a modern, diverse world.
Intent
At Albrighton Primary School and Nursery, we believe that a PSHE curriculum is essential in the education of all pupils. We understand that a high-quality PSHE education should enable our children to become happy, healthy, independent and responsible members of a society. Our PSHE curriculum will equip pupils with knowledge to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. It will also provide them with the skills needed to live within the wider world, form healthy relationships, maintain a healthy lifestyle and keep safe. We believe that the knowledge and skills that intertwine within PSHE learning are vital in not only a child’s education, but also in their wider life. As such, our PSHE curriculum will support our pupils to be prepared for the next stage in their young lives and to live responsibly in a modern, diverse world.
As a school, we are very lucky to have such a fabulous outdoor area to utilise. We use this creatively, alongside our strong community links to encourage our children to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.
Implementation
The core of our PSHE lessons is the statutory RHE curriculum, which is supported by the PSHE Association guidance. The PSHE curriculum has been carefully planned and adapted in a logical progression to ensure that new knowledge and values build on what has been taught before: Early Years to Year 6. This enables our pupils to know more and remember more. The sequence develops pupils’ understanding of relationships and health skills over time; we use the strands Relationships, Living in the Wider World and Health and Wellbeing as the fundamental building blocks of our PSHE curriculum. Teaching will include sufficient well-chosen opportunities and contexts for pupils to embed new knowledge so that it can be used confidently in real life situations.
Impact
Children will have developed the knowledge and skills to help them understand how to stay healthy, keep safe and be prepared for the challenges and responsibilities they will face growing up.
Children’s knowledge and skills will develop progressively as they move through the school, not only to enable them to meet the requirements of the PSHE curriculum but to prepare them to become competent learners and make responsible decisions in their secondary education and beyond.
We measure the impact of our PSHE curriculum through the following methods:
- Assessing children’s understanding of the knowledge and linked vocabulary before and after the unit is taught.
- Formative assessment throughout lessons – questioning and AFL tasks to check knowledge and understanding.
- Opportunities to use knowledge in other contexts such as in literacy or RE.
- Interviewing pupils about their learning (pupil voice).
- Moderation staff meetings where pupils’ work in floor books is scrutinised and there is the opportunity for a dialogue between teachers to understand their class’s work.
- Annual reporting of standards across the curriculum.
The following documents provide further information about PSHE at Albrighton Primary School.
Overview of PSHE
Health Education
Overview of Relationships Education
At Albrighton Primary School, we believe in the importance of equality and everyone having the same opportunities. This is modelled by our staff and taught through other experiences, both discretely and explicitly. One of the subjects that this is taught through is the subject of PSHE. In order to ensure children have important messages about respect for diversity we follow a scheme called NO OUTSIDERS. Further detail is provided below –
no outsiders
no outsiders core texts