PSHE
INTENT
We believe that PSHE has a special place in education and in society. A high-quality education in PSHE will help children to develop social skills to recognise people’s feelings and respond appropriately. It will help them to develop social skills to interact with others and to form good relationships. Children will explore diversity in today’s society helping them to develop an awareness for other cultures, religions and beliefs.
Aims
Our aim for PSHE at Stonebow is to provide children with the social skills to form good relationships and to respect others. We aim to ensure that all pupils:
- Understand what it means to belong to a community and to have an awareness of diversity in today’s society.
- Understand how to form good relationships in school and to respect each other.
- Understand how to stay safe including online safety.
IMPLEMENTATION – How we do it at Stonebow
PSHE will be taught as a discrete subject once a week or through cross-curricular lessons at Stonebow. Assemblies will also be used as an extra opportunity for PSHE teaching, all classes will participate in class assemblies using Newsround or Espresso News as a tool/resources to hook the children’s learning. During events such as anti-bullying week, assemblies will be used to raise awareness and to remind the children how to respond if this is happening. Teachers will also have an afternoon off timetable during that week to focus on anti-bullying. We will also use outside agencies and organisations to enrich the PSHE opportunities. For example, Bikeability, Life Education Van and visitors to the school.
IMPACT – Assessment of outcomes
- Teachers will observe the children during classroom based activities to identify broad vocabulary; confident speech and a love of reading.
- Teachers will examine the quality of children’s work from the lesson in their books and through the oral work/discussions within lessons.
- Teachers will assess children at the end of every year to see if they are WT, EXS or GDS on the learning objectives for that year group
RSE at Stonebow
Since September 2020, Relationships, Sex and Health Education has been a compulsory part of our school curriculum. (See our RSE policy for further details.)
At Stonebow we teach RSHE through our weekly PSHE lessons, as well as through assemblies, visitors to school, science units and topic work.
In the second half of the Summer Term the PSHE theme for all our pupils is ‘Growing and Changing’. Staff will teach lessons based on the SCARF scheme of work that we follow, adapting the content to match our own class’s needs. (To see what topics each year group will be learning about please refer to the document ‘Information for Parents about the Scarf content’.)
Family and relationships are such a fundamental thread in RSHE so we really hope our pupils’ families make time to talk about their own values and experiences, and establish a shared understanding about places to go for help if children need to.
We welcome your support and feedback in our provision of this subject either through your child’s class teacher or via Fiona Panni, our PSHE lead.
Learning Pathway Example
Long Term Planning by Year Group
LEARNING PATHWAYS CYCLE A
All Learning Pathways for Cycle A (Odd numbered years e.g. 2025) can be found viewed or downloaded from years 1 through to 6 in the following documents:
LEARNING PATHWAYS CYCLE B
All Learning Pathways for Cycle B (Even numbered years e.g. 2024) can be found viewed or downloaded from years 1 through to 6 in the following documents:
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