Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
INTENT
At Sussex Road we aim to deliver a high-quality PSHE curriculum which enables our children to be prepared emotionally and practically for our ever- changing world. Our curriculum aims to Foster positive relationships, encouraging empathy, kindness, respect, and the skills to form healthy friendships and interactions both in person and online. Promote emotional and physical health, helping pupils to understand and manage their feelings, maintain healthy habits, and seek help when needed. Ensure safety and safeguarding awareness, including online safety, understanding consent, recognising appropriate and inappropriate contact, and knowing how to ask for help. Develop an understanding of diversity and equality, encouraging pupils to respect and value differences in others, challenging stereotypes, and promoting inclusion. Prepare pupils for the wider world, introducing concepts of money management, aspirations, and basic economic understanding in a way that is relevant and accessible. Build confidence and resilience, enabling pupils to reflect on their values, express opinions, and make considered, safe decisions. It reflects our school’s core values and the fundamental British values of democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, and tolerance.
IMPLEMENTATION
Our PSHE curriculum is designed to meet the requirements of the Department for Education’s 2020 statutory guidance on Relationships Education and Health Education. Our progressive skills have been carefully designed, in alignment with PSHE association, to cover wide range of topics including Relationships, Health and Wellbeing and Living in the wider world. This is implemented in discreet PSHE lessons, where we cover areas including: families and people, who care for me and caring friendships; respectful relationships; online relationships, internet safety and harms; being safe; mental and physical well-being; the dangers of drugs, alcohol and tobacco; healthy eating; basic first aid, the changing adolescent body and economic well-being. Alongside these lessons, classes have Circle Times, where safe, respectful discussions are conducted, relevant to specific classes. Teachers use a range of strategies to implement the PSHE curriculum from services such as: local dental hygienists giving oral hygiene advice; Rhesus Rangers teaching First Aid; Network Rail’s Switched-on Safety assembly; or the local Emergency services explaining how our pupils can stay safe in our community, will be used in conjunction with class puppets, video extracts and drama; these lessons are recorded in our PSHE floor books.
IMPACT
The impact of our PSHE curriculum at Sussex Road is seen in the confidence, personal growth, wellbeing, and social development of our pupils. By the time they leave primary school, children will be well-prepared for the challenges of secondary education and life beyond the classroom in the local community to ensure that they keep safe, make considered judgements about situations, are respectful people’s view and beliefs and make an active contribution to their locality.
If you visited an PSHE lesson at Sussex Road Primary School, you would see:
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In an open and safe environment that allows all children to reflect on their own values and beliefs
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Having interesting up-to-date discussions and circle time exploring their thoughts and feelings about sometimes challenging topics that are relevant to our community including: County Lines and drugs awareness, water, river and rail safety
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Using class puppets to develop personalised relevant to each class
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Using drama, art and creative writing to consolidate their thoughts and feelings
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Covering topics in an open, yet respectful way, including all the pupil’s opinions