INTENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT

PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION (PSHE)  INTENT

Our Personal Social Health Education (PSHE) curriculum enables learners to become healthy, independent and responsible members of society.  It prepares them for their future roles within a local, national and global community.  The curriculum aims to help them understand how they are developing physically, emotionally and socially.  It tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. We provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. Our learners are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.  Learners will understand how to keep themselves safe in a range of contexts, including when they are by roads, water or railways or when they are online.  They will learn about the potential dangers of fire, drugs and alcohol and peer to peer abuse.

RELATIONSHIPS AND SEX EDUCATION INTENT

The intent of our Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) curriculum is to provide the fundamental building blocks and characteristics of positive relationships, with particular reference to friendships, family relationships, and relationships with other children and with adults.  Learners will learn about the features of healthy friendships, family relationships and other relationships which they are likely to encounter. They will understand how important positive relationships are to happiness and security. The RSE curriculum also aims to teach learners the knowledge they need to recognise and to report abuse, including emotional, physical and sexual abuse.  It does this by focusing in on boundaries and privacy, ensuring young people understand that they have rights over their own bodies. The curriculum ensures that learners know how to report concerns and seek advice when they suspect or know that something is wrong. Learners are taught the importance of hygiene.  They should be able to name and know the role of the main external body parts and understand how they grow and change from birth to old age (including puberty).  They learn how some plants and animals (including humans) reproduce.

PSHE IMPLEMENTATION

The PSHE scheme is a whole school approach that consists of five areas of learning:

• Families and relationships

• Health and wellbeing

• Safety and the changing body

• Citizenship

• Economic wellbeing

Each area is revisited every year to allow children to build on prior learning. The lessons also provide a progressive programme. The lessons are based upon the statutory requirements for Relationships and Health education, but where lessons go beyond these requirements (primarily in the Citizenship and Economic wellbeing areas) they refer to the PSHE Association’s Programme of Study which is recommended by the DfE. Sex education has been included in line with the DfE recommendations and should be covered in Year 6, however at Clewer Green we focus on exploring the physical and emotional changes in puberty rather than conception. Many lessons, stories, scenarios, and video clips provide the opportunity for children to engage in real life.

PSHE IMPACT

Each lesson within the scheme features assessment guidance, helping teachers to identify whether pupils have met, exceeded, or failed to meet the desired learning intentions for that lesson. Once taught the full scheme, children will have met the objectives set out within the Relationships and Health Education statutory guidance and can utilise their learning within their daily lives, from dealing with friendship issues to resilience to making healthy choices and knowing where and how to get help when needed.

Every year Clewer Green uses this National event to reinforce the importance, awareness and understanding of our own mental health and well-being. It is especially important that children and the wider community recognise Mental Health as of equal importance to physical health and that it is treated with the same respect, care and understanding. During this week, the children will have opportunities to learn, discuss and reflect, and more importantly, to talk through their thoughts, ideas, worries or concerns regarding mental health and well-being. Links to activities and resources will be made available to all.

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)

At Clewer Green, RSE is currently and will continue to be taught through Personal Social and Health Education (PSHE). Some biological aspects will also be covered within the compulsory Science National Curriculum. We currently teach PSHE using the Kapow scheme of learning which is fully compliant with the statutory relationships and health education guidance.