Our Pupils’ perspective
In PSHEC, we learn about health and wellbeing, healthy friendships and mental health. It helps me to know who to speak to about a problem or deal with something that worries me.
Subject Leader
Mrs Alli has recently become the PSHEC lead. Over the past few months she has been developing her role within school whilst promoting the continuation of the Jigsaw curriculum. She particularly enjoyed working with teachers to plan events during Anti-Bullying week and believes this is an important area to develop within our school for our children. Mrs Alli is a member of the PSHE association and has completed her mental health first aid training.
Subject Intent
As a school, we believe that through PSHEC minds will be opened and diversity is embraced, supporting our school vision, as children develop respect for different communities and beliefs or ideas. Through reflections in lessons and whole class discussions, children will grow to develop the values we hold close as a Christian school and continue to embody our school scripture as they build healthy relationships through ‘actions and true caring’.
At St Luke and St Philip’s Primary School, we are proud of being a Church academy at the heart of our local community – a place where everyone is valued, respected and encouraged to develop resilience and confidence. Our strong ethos strives to ensure that each pupil achieves their very best. At St Luke and St Philip’s Primary School, we teach Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education as a whole-school approach to underpin children’s development as people and because we believe that this also supports their learning capacity. St. Luke and St. Philip’s Primary School sets out, through its PHSEC curriculum, to enable our children to become moral, confident, healthy, independent and responsible members of a society.
Our curriculum aims to assist children and young people to prepare for adult life in modern Britain by supporting them through their spiritual, physical, emotional and moral development, and helping them to understand themselves, respect others and form and sustain healthy relationships. We provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about health, relationships, rights and responsibilities and help them to appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse and ever-changing society. Our children are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community. We realise that in order for our pupils to lead tomorrow’s world, they will need to demonstrate compassion, understanding, empathy and innovation. Success, progress and celebration are very much at the heart of what we do.
Our Curriculum supports the “Personal Development” and “Behaviour and Attitude” aspects required under the Ofsted Inspection Framework, as well as significantly contributing to the school’s Safeguarding and Equality Duties, the Government’s British Values agenda and the SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social, Cultural) development opportunities provided for our children.
Relationship education in our school
DfE statutory guidance states that from September 2020, all Primary schools must deliver Relationships Education. Relationship Education forms an integral and important part of the PSHEC curriculum. School adheres to the National Curriculum recommendations for teaching RSE (Relation Education in Primary school) (2019).
School Vision for safe and effective Relationships Education is to educate our children so they have an age-appropriate understanding of healthy relationships and are confident in staying safe from abuse and exploitation (including online). Relationships Education will put in place the building blocks needed for positive and safe relationships, including with family, friends and online.
Children will be taught what a relationship is, what friendship is, what family means and who can support them. In an age-appropriate way, school will cover how to treat each other with kindness, consideration and respect.
Equality and Diversity
At St. Luke and St Philip’s, we aim to educate our pupils in a way that they grow to respect people from different backgrounds and recognise that everyone is equal regardless of how they choose to live their lives. This is in line with the DfE Guidance 2019 (p. 15), which states, “Schools should ensure that the needs of all pupils are appropriately met, and that all pupils understand the importance of equality and respect. Schools must ensure they comply with the relevant provisions of the Equality Act 2010 under which sexual orientation and gender reassignment are amongst the protected characteristics. Protected characteristics include: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+). For further information on how we address these characteristics at our school please refer to our website at https://stlukesblackburn.co.uk/classes-curriculum/subject-areas/pshec in the PSHEC documents section.
Changing Me Unit
Although we teach using the Jigsaw curriculum, there are some changes that apply to the content for the Summer term. The Jigsaw curriculum planning indicates that changes to the body are taught in Year 4. However, at our school, we do not teach this content until years 5 and 6, where the puberty content is delivered to boys and girls separately in a sensitive manner by Mrs Webster. In addition, the year 2 curriculum covers naming body parts including using the correct vocabulary to name genital body parts. As this unit is non-statutory, a letter will be sent out annually asking for parental consent for these lessons. If a parent decides to withdraw their child from the non statutory sessions, it will be with the understanding that the content will be taught by the parent at home.
Please note that all other units for PSHEC are statutory and pupils cannot be removed from these lessons.
Useful Website Links
https://www.youtube.com/user/cosmickidsyoga
PSHEC Documents
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