PSHE at Lytham C of E Primary School

Our goal for PSHE and RSE Education is that children gain the knowledge, understanding, attitudes, values and skills they need in order to reach their full potential as individuals within a global and diverse world.

We aim to do this through providing learning opportunities through three key themes….

1. Health and Wellbeing
2. Relationships
3. Living in the Wider World 

The PSHE Curriculum
PSHE is part of our whole school ethos.  It is understood that pupils must feel safe and secure before sensitive issues and opinions can be considered and shared. At Lytham C of E we have adopted the Coram Life Education programme. The units of work are allocated to terms and year groups as appropriate to ensure progression and coverage. They build in developmental progression by revisiting themes year on year, building on and extending prior learning. Each year group has a 1-hour session weekly to teach discreet lessons covering appropriate topics and themes.

Opportunities also exist across the wider curriculum to promote pupils’ personal, social and emotional development. The school follows the national curriculum statutory guidance for the teaching of Heath, Sex and Relationships Education

Year 6 and Reception children working together to produce Art work linked to emotions during Children’s mental health week.

PSHE
Our PSHE programme supports the development of the skills, attitudes, values and patterns of behaviour which enable pupils to:

• Have a sense of purpose
• Value self and respect others
• Form positive relationships
• Make and act on informed decisions
• Communicate effectively
• Work with others
• Respond to challenge with resilience
• Be active citizens within the local community
• Explore issues and British Values related to living in a democratic society
• Become healthy and fulfilled individuals
• Have a better understanding of and celebrate diversity in the UK.

EYFS – Learning about how to look after our teeth

Coram SCARF   
We use the Coram SCARF resources to support our teaching of PSHE across EYFS, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Coram Life Education & SCARF are the UK’s leading charity provider of PSHE and wellbeing education in primary schools. It is an up-to-date, whole school, fully comprehensive programme that fulfils all DfE statutory requirements for Relationships and Health Education. SCARF’s whole-school approach supports primary schools in promoting positive behaviour, mental health, wellbeing, resilience and achievement.

For more information: https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/scarf/

Family SCARF https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/family-scarf

Find out how the SCARF values of Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship can help your child to be their best – both at school and at home. Choose from the menu of family activities or support and find out how to build positive relationships and help your child be a confident learner.

PSHE is also taught through Collective Worship themes – Whole school topics will be looked at and often launched in whole school worship prior to the children learning about such topics further in their individual classrooms e.g. Anti-Bulling Week

The weekly reward assembly is an opportunity when a range of achievements including those outside of school are recognised and celebrated.

The School Council and the Eco Committee - These form an important part of developing understanding in PSHE in terms of demonstrating the democratic process and of helping develop a sense of responsibility in and for the school community.

PSHE and British Values 

We support this valuable area of children’s learning, enabling them to make appropriate choices as they navigate the rich, varied, often complex and ever-changing evolving life in modern Britain – and the world. The British values run throughout our PSHE/HRE curriculum. As a school we look at a different British Value each half term.

At Lytham C of E Primary School, Relationships Education teaches children the fundamental building blocks and characteristics of positive relationships, with particular reference to friendships, family relationships, and relationships with other peers and adults.

We believe it is important to address health and relationships education as it lays the foundations for supporting children and young people through their physical, mental and moral development.

We are committed to helping keep our children safe and equipped with the correct information. Some things they learn from other sources may be incorrect, frightening and confusing. We believe this includes supporting our children to confidently and safely filter information and images on social media and to recognise online safety dangers, particularly in online relationships.

The aims of health and relationships education at Lytham C of E Primary School are:

• To ensure Health and Relationships Education is part of a child’s broad, balanced curriculum, integral to the basic curriculum of the school and part of the child’s all-round development.
• To enable pupils to understand the qualities of healthy relationships based on Christian principles, including the principles of respect and kindness.
• To prepare children for healthy relationships in an online world.
• To understand how to stay safe, know the importance of boundaries and how to report abuse or feelings of being unsafe.
• To help pupils develop a positive and secure personal identity, a sense of their own value and feelings of confidence and empathy.
• To create a positive culture around issues of sexuality and relationship.
• To ensure that all understand the importance of respecting others and accepting those who differ, yet challenging those behaviours and attitudes, which exploit others and do not reflect Christian values.
• To prepare and enable children to cope with changes to their bodies, instincts and feelings as they enter puberty.
• To provide information that is clear and appropriate to their age and maturity, and to offer acceptable and accurate vocabulary to describe their bodies.
• To know how to ‘love your neighbour’ even when we might disagree.

We encourage pupils to take part in a wide range of activities and experiences and understand how they are developing personally, emotionally and socially, tackling many of the spiritual, moral, cultural issues that are part of growing up, all while developing their understanding of diversity.

 

Statutory requirements
Our school complies with the requirements of the Equality Act and the Public Sector Equality Duty in addition to complying with the statutory guidance on Relationships Education, Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education.

Miss Harter is our PSHE and RSE lead. Please contact her via the school office (01253 736900) with any queries or questions.