Personal, Health, Social, Citizenship and Economic Education (PSHCE)

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)

Our School Vision

Our school is a community where each person is valued as a child of God. We are a Church of England school, inspired and guided by the life and teaching of Jesus. We work together to create a caring, friendly and safe school family, to enable the whole school community to flourish and each person reach their full God-given potential.

 

This document is devised to support this vision, and has the following intentions:

Pupils are empowered to develop the hope and perseverance necessary to engage the challenges of PHSCE in the context of school and the wider world.

Teaching staff seek out opportunities for all pupils to flourish in PHSCE lessons, developing wisdom and creativity through a broad, ambitious curriculum that challenges expectations, deepens knowledge, and develops skills.

PHSCE lessons are inclusive, so everyone is valued and respected – and tolerance and diversity are celebrated.

INTENT

At Donnington Wood CE Junior School, we value the importance of PHSCE in supporting children’s understanding of themselves, others, and the world around them. Through our school values of hope, friendship, and perseverance, we aim to prepare them for their role as upstanding citizens within society, allowing them to lead happy, healthy lives with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and sound decisions. All children will learn the importance of co-operation and develop a mutual respect of and understanding for those around them and their differences – encouraging them to respect the protected characteristics and appreciate and celebrate diversity both within school and in the community. Through our PHSCE offer, we aim to develop the children’s understanding of the British Values (democracy, rule of law, tolerance, individual liberty, mutual respect) to allow them to live successfully as an adult in modern Britain – encouraging them to develop their moral compass, giving them the opportunity to recognise the difference between right and wrong and understand the consequences of their actions. Through this, we are allowing them to develop an understanding of the impact their actions have on both themselves and the wider world.

At Donnington Wood CE Junior School, we encourage children to speak up and have a voice, demonstrating the impact that they can have and the changes that they can inspire – empowering their sense of self-worth and preparing them to contribute to society.

Above all else, our intent is to provide an age appropriate, spiral curriculum which responds and adapts to the needs of our children – giving them an open and safe environment where they feel confident enough to express themselves, ask questions, take part in discussion, and develop a strong sense of self-worth. Therefore, promoting positive emotional and mental wellbeing throughout their time at Donnington Wood CE Junior School and beyond.

IMPLEMENTATION

At Donnington Wood CE Junior School, our PHSCE offer goes far beyond the weekly lessons and is fully embedded within the ethos of our school.

Each week, PHSCE is delivered during regular timetabled slots across the whole school, embedding relationships and friendships, health and wellbeing, personal safety, equality and diversity, aspirations (including economic wellbeing), responsibility and independence. As part of our curriculum, each year group follows the JIGSAW programme which provides a spiral, progressive programme with topics, and prior knowledge, being built upon each year, requiring deeper understanding and complexity as each topic is returned to. Through this, children are given relevant learning experiences to help them navigate their world and to develop positive relationships with themselves and others. Despite following the JIGSAW scheme, we encourage all our staff to be reactive and responsive to the needs of the children in their class – adapting lessons where needed, responding to local/national/global events, picking up on incidental learning opportunities and responding to children’s specific questions or misconceptions. Alongside the JIGSAW programme, we also make use of the No Outsiders programme which develops an understanding of the protected characteristics, further promoting equality and diversity through an ethos of inclusion and tolerance. We also further promote British Values through the delivery of picture news during regular collective worship sessions. Emotional intelligence is also a high priority in enabling our children in leading happy, healthy lives now and in the future. To further promote this, we use Lifeland stories which delve into each emotion, opening discussions into a range of strategies to assist in appropriately reacting and dealing with them whilst also deepening the understanding that as individuals, we may not respond in exactly the same way. The use of the Lifeland emotions map also embeds the fact that no emotion is forever and that we can always find our way back to happiness, promoting the children to consider ways in which they are able to achieve this.

Assessing PHSCE is predominantly AfL based – assessing the children’s needs and readiness for content in each class, adapting the content of the lesson where needed, responding to misconceptions and identifying children who need further support. Whilst some of the impact will be seen immediately – in the way the children conduct themselves, the conversations they have and the way they demonstrate the school values – much of the impact may not be seen whilst they are at Donnington Wood Junior School, but instead will be evident in their later lives when they encounter situations and scenarios that we are endeavouring to prepare them for. Alongside this, there are clear links made between PHSCE and other subjects including

computing through e-safety, science and D&T through healthy eating and PE through leading healthy active lifestyles.

IMPACT

By the end of Key Stage 2, pupils will:

· Be well-rounded individuals who are prepared for the future and have the confidence they need to succeed in their later life

· Have respect for equality and diversity with understanding of the protected characteristics

· Know and understand the British Values

· Be able to identify what healthy, positive relationships and friendships look like

· Be confident, resilient individuals who feel safe and secure within their environment

· Able to acknowledge their own emotions and regulate these appropriately

· Be confident in speaking up for themselves

· Have an understanding of their own rights and responsibilities as a child- at school, at home and in the wider world

· To ensure that all children have high aspirations for themselves and their future, particularly the most vulnerable and disadvantaged

· To know that actions have consequences both on themselves and the wider world

· Have the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to allow them to independently lead healthy lifestyles, both physically and mentally, as they move to secondary school and beyond – ensuring they are ready for life within modern Britain

· Be confident in seeking help and support for themselves and others

· Be well-rounded individuals who are prepared for the future and have the confidence they need to succeed in their later life

· equip pupils with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions.

RSE

RSE in our school is a fundamental part of the PHSCE curriculum.

· An age-appropriate scheme of work, which is integrated within the wider school curriculum and becomes part of the general ethos within school.

· Prepare for changes that they may experience both now and later in life

· An understanding of the characteristics of varied, positive relationships (friendships, family, peers and other adults)

· A safe environment where children feel able to express themselves, ask questions, take part in discussion and understand that others may have differing opinions.