PSHE and RSHE
Our approach to teaching PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education) and RSHE (Relationships, Sex and Health Education)
All schools are currently expected to provide PSHE education in their curriculum. This expectation was strengthened in September 2020, when Relationships Education and Health Education aspects of the primary curriculum became compulsory in all schools. Using a combination of Ten Ten’s Life to the Full and Coram Life Education’s SCARF resources, we cover the full breadth of PSHE education subjects that are outside the scope of the DfE’s statutory RSHE requirements so that wider life issues can be explored; these include economic education, environmental and community issues, rights and responsibilities.
Ten Ten is an award-winning Catholic educational organisation that is well-respected and very experienced in this field of work. The Life to the Full programme is based on a model curriculum that was highlighted as a work of good practice by the Department of Education. We therefore have confidence that the programme will be fit for purpose in supporting the growth and development of your child.
Life to the Full is much more than a series of lessons. It is an entire platform of creative resources that will engage, inform and inspire our children and, indeed, you as parents. This includes interactive video content, story-based activities, employing a wide range of teaching tools, original worship music and an accompanying programme of classroom prayers.
SCARF provides a comprehensive scheme of work for PSHE education, with high quality resources and over 30 years’ experience in this field.
Our core aim for all pupils
The DfE guidance states that “children and young people need to know how to be safe and healthy, and how to manage their academic, personal and social lives in a positive way”. RSE is about the development of the pupil’s knowledge and understanding of herself or himself as a sexual being, about what it means to be fully human, called to live in healthy relationships and being enabled to make moral decisions in conscience. The focus will be on “teaching the fundamental building blocks and characteristics of positive relationships, with particular reference to friendships, family relationships, and relationships with other children and with adults.” This will include the following topics: families and the people who care for me, caring friendships, respectful relationships, online relationships and being safe.
The school’s PSHE provision supports the school’s aims of developing confident citizens and successful learners who are creative, resourceful and able to identify and solve problems. The social and emotional development of pupils is embedded throughout the entire school’s curriculum and culture. The school has a powerful combination of a planned thematic PSHE program, built around a spiral curriculum of recurring themes, designed to:
- Give pupils the knowledge and develop the self-esteem, confidence and self-awareness to make informed choices and decisions;
- Encourage and support the development of social skills and social awareness;
- Promote responsible attitudes towards the maintenance of good physical and mental health, supported by a safe and healthy lifestyle;
- Enable the pupils to manage risk and keep themselves safe;
- Encourage a caring attitude towards and responsibility for the environment;
- Help our pupils understand and manage their feelings, build resilience and be independent, curious problem solvers.
Termly themes
Every class follows the same overall theme each term. These are:
Term 1 – Created and Loved By God (Health and Wellbeing)
Term 2 – Created to Love Others (Relationships)
Term 3 – Created to Live in Community (Living in The Wider World)
Please see below an outline of each class’s learning, which will be reviewed in Summer 2024.
Our Relationship and Sex Education Policy can be found on our Policies and Procedures page.