PERSONAL, SOCIAL, HEALTH AND ECONOMIC EDUCATION

Our PSHE curriculum was developed by specialists at the Ealing Education Centre. The aim of the curriculum is to teach children the skills to keep themselves safe in all areas of their lives. There are three main focuses throughout the year:

1. Health and Wellbeing

2. Living in the Wider World

3. Relationships

These themes are explored through assemblies, weekly class lessons, visits from professionals and events such as charity fundraising. 

Intent

Our school’s PSHE planning is ambitious for all pupils and is coherently planned and sequenced to ensure that pupils build on and gain new knowledge and skills as they progress through primary school. Our curriculum is broad and balanced to ensure that pupils leave primary schools with the knowledge and skills to keep themselves physically healthy, mentally healthy and safe. We also aim to equip our pupils with the knowledge, skills and attitudes they will need to be active, respectful and engaged citizens of modern Britain.   

Implementation

Our PSHE curriculum has a wide range of child-centred activities to ensure the learning is enjoyable for pupils. The scheme of work is based on the learning descriptors laid out in the DfE’s ‘Statutory Relationships and Health Education guidance’. These learning descriptors are outlined at the beginning of each unit of planning to ensure teachers know the expected standard of learning that pupils should attain at the end of each unit of work. Our scheme of work contains both formative and summative assessment opportunities that support teachers to assess PSHE knowledge, and how these are applied within social and emotional skills development. PSHE is taught as a discrete lesson once a week but also forms an integral part of the values and ethos of our school.  

Impact

The impact of our PSHE curriculum is measured against the standardised descriptors laid out in the DfE’s ‘Statutory Relationships, Sex and Health Education guidance’. These descriptors are used as benchmarks for progression. The impact of our PSHE curriculum is also seen in the way pupils interact with others, the way in which can keep themselves mentally and physically healthy, the respect pupils have for other people and the way in which pupils can keep themselves and people around them safe. The impact of PSHE is not just seen in academic progress within the subject, it is also seen in the way pupils become active, respectful and engaged citizens of modern Britain.