Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education is an important subject through which children develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to manage their lives, now and in the future.These skills and attributes help pupils to stay healthy and prepare them for life and work in modern Britain. PSHE education helps pupils to achieve their academic potential, and leave school equipped with skills they will need throughout later life. Throughout the units covered there are opportunities to teach children how to keep safe, identify unsafe situations and ask for help Importantly,
Our “You, Me, PSHE” scheme builds on pupils’ learning through the Early Years Foundation Stage, especially in the prime areas of personal, social and emotional development and physical development
There are 7 strands covered over each 2 yearly milestones and these are revisited in each milestone ensuring knowledge and skills are spaced are revisited:
1. Relationships and health education
2. Drug, alcohol and tobacco education
3. Keeping safe and managing risk
4. Mental health and emotional wellbeing
5. Physical health and wellbeing
6. Careers, financial capability and economic
7. wellbeing
8. Identity, society and equality
Through our PSHE curriculum we aim to develop in our pupils as part of their personal development:
- An understanding of the importance of personal and social responsibility
- Assertiveness
- Confidence in communicating skills
- An ability to consider and understand risks to themselves and others
- Skills to debate and solve conflicts between themselves and others
- An ability and willingness to do the following eight things: try new things, work hard, concentrate, push themselves, us their imagination, be willing to improve, be able to understand others and have resilience to not give up
As part of our nurturing ethos, to ensure children feel a sense of belonging, crucial in underpinning academic achievement, we monitor closely the needs of individual or groups of children and changing environmental and social factors and adapt our work accordingly. This may also include aspects of our own early help offer such as Nurture sessions and THRIVE and Boxall Profile baseline assessments to help us understand and meet the needs of the children as well as using the pre unit assessment tasks.