Curriculum – PSHE & RSHE

Through Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) and Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE), we aim to encourage the children at Esh Winning Primary School to:

Stay safe
Be healthy
Enjoy
Achieve
Make a positive contribution
Achieve economic wellbeing

In order for us to achieve this, we will promote self-esteem, responsibility, relationships, respect and being a part of different communities.

The personal and social development of pupils means supporting them as they develop from dependent children, to independent young people. In order for this transformation to take place, we as a school need to promote the personal qualities, skills, attitudes and values which enable individuals to think and act for themselves, manage relationships, understand moral issues and accept and understand rights and responsibilities.

Staff at Esh Winning Primary School follow the Jigsaw PSHE scheme, which fulfils all the requirements for the statutory Relationships and Health Education curriculum (as announced by the Department for Education in England in 2019, as implemented from September 2020). Jigsaw goes even further than this and provides a spiral and progressive comprehensive programme in which the statutory elements sit and are embraced. Staff will also respond to children’s personal and social issues as well as any issues or known topics in the local area as and when they arise.

Our PSHE & RSHE half termly themes are:

Being Me in My World
Celebrating Difference
Dreams and Goals
Healthy Me
Relationships
Changing Me

Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development

At Esh Winning Primary School, we encourage all children to develop their Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) awareness through each curriculum area. SMSC is deeply embedded throughout the whole of the PSHE curriculum and the themes that are taught throughout the year. Every lesson from Early Years to UKS2 offers opportunities for children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development, and this is clearly mapped and balanced across each year group.

Relationships & Sex Education

An important part of the Jigsaw PSHE programme is delivered through the ‘Relationships’ and ‘Changing Me’ puzzle pieces which are covered in the summer term.

There are four main aims of teaching RSHE:

To enable children to understand and respect their bodies
To help children develop positive and healthy relationships appropriate to their age and development
To support children to have positive self-esteem and body image
To empower them to be safe and safeguarded.

Each year group will be taught appropriate to their age and developmental stage. Sensitive and controversial issues are certain to arise in learning from real-life experience. Staff are prepared to handle issues arising from the work in these units; they will manage them sensitively and to follow up appropriately any disclosures made in a group or individual setting. Issues that we may address which are likely to be sensitive and controversial could include those that may:

Have a political, social or personal impact
Deal with values and beliefs including family lifestyles and values
Physical and medical issues
Financial issues
Bullying and bereavement

Teachers will take all reasonable, practical steps to ensure that, where sensitive or controversial issues are brought to pupils’ attention, they are offered a balanced presentation of opposing views. Teachers will adopt strategies that seek to avoid bias on their part and will teach pupils how to recognise bias and evaluate evidence. Teachers will seek to establish a classroom climate in which all pupils are free from any fear of expressing reasonable points of view that contradict those held either by their class teachers or their peers.

Below is a summary of RSHE coverage within the Jigsaw scheme for each year group:

Foundation Stage – Growing up; how we have changed since we were babies
Year 1 – Our bodies; naming body parts
Year 2 – Our bodies; body parts and respecting privacy (which parts of the body are private and why this is)
Year 3 – How babies grow and how our bodies change as they grow older
Year 4 – Internal and external reproductive body parts, body changes in girls and menstruation
Year 5 – Puberty and conception
Year 6 – Puberty and understanding conception to birth of a baby

Further information about how the school approaches the teaching of Relationships and Sex Education through the Jigsaw programme can be found within the documents listed below. Alternatively, if you have any questions, please contact Miss Burns.

Intent of PSHE

Intent (Why are we teaching this?)

The intent of our whole school journey is to forge aspirational adult citizens who are valued in society and realise the characteristics of resilience, a growth mindset, importance of health and well-being, community and life-long learning.

It is our intent for PSHE and RSHE that all children will become better citizens and be prepared for life beyond school whilst developing individual character. It is our aim to create lifelong learners with the confidence and ability to develop their skills and understanding when having new experiences, meeting new challenges and finding themselves in unfamiliar situations. We share a cohesive vision to help children to understand and value how they and others fit into and contribute to their local area and the world. We have a strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health through the delivery of a programme of engaging and relevant PSHE within a whole school approach. We also promote and practise mindfulness, allowing children to advance their emotional awareness, concentration and focus. Our approach aims to develop the qualities and attributes children need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society and the global community.

Implementation of PSHE

Implementation (How is this being taught in the classroom?)

PSHE at Esh Winning Primary School is implemented using the Jigsaw Programme, which is a mindful whole school approach to PSHE. Jigsaw holds children at its heart, and its cohesive vision helps children understand and value how they fit into and contribute to the world. With strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health, Jigsaw allows staff to deliver engaging and relevant PSHE lessons whilst giving autonomy to staff so the topics covered are relevant to the children, the local area and their lives. Jigsaw lessons also include mindfulness allowing children to advance their emotional awareness, concentration and focus. Pupil feedback has highlighted how important this part of each lesson is to them.

Our PSHE lessons, including statutory Relationships and Health Education, is delivered through a spiral, progressive and fully planned scheme of work, giving children relevant learning experiences to help them navigate their world and to develop positive relationships with themselves and others.

Jigsaw consists of six half-term units of work (Puzzles), each containing six lessons (Pieces) covering each academic year. Every Piece has two Learning Intentions, one specific to PSHE (including Relationships and Health Education) and the other designed to develop emotional literacy and social skills. Puzzles are launched with a whole-school assembly with each year group studying the same unit at the same time (at their own level), building sequentially through the school year, facilitating whole-school learning themes. The various teaching and learning activities are engaging and mindful of different learning styles and the need for differentiation and the Early Years (EYFS) planning is aligned to the National Early Years Framework (England).

Jigsaw’s Units of Work (Puzzles) are:

Being Me in My World

Includes understanding my place in the class, school and global community as well as devising learning charters.

Celebrating Difference

Includes anti-bullying (cyber and homophobic bullying included) and diversity work.

Dreams and Goals

Includes goal-setting, aspirations for yourself and the world and working together.

Healthy Me

Includes drugs and alcohol education, self-esteem and confidence as well as healthy lifestyle choices.

Relationships

Includes understanding friendship, family and other relationships, conflict resolution and communication skills.

Changing Me

This puzzle includes sex and relationships education in the context of coping positively with change.

Staff have the freedom to plan with detail and attention to their individual children and the lives of the children and their local area.

Our PSHE programme deals with the diverse beliefs, values and attitudes that individuals and societies hold. It helps pupils to develop themselves, their understanding of the world, and their ability to communicate their feelings. Children at Esh Winning also acquire an understanding and experiences of British Values that are necessary if they are to make sense of their experiences, value themselves, respect others, appreciate differences and feel confident and informed as a British citizen.

Impact of PSHE

Impact (What is the effect?)

The impact of following this programme will be that the standards of attainment across the school will meet or exceed those which are expected of our children nationally. We continuously assess the implementation and impact of our PSHE curriculum in order to achieve the highest outcomes possible across all year groups and ensure we provide the support that is necessary for all children to achieve. Through our PSHE curriculum, we believe we can enhance children’s education and help them to become caring, respectful, responsible and confident individuals and citizens.

So how can we achieve this?

In order to be confident in the impact of PSHE, senior leaders and PSHE leader (Miss Burns and Mrs Powell) will monitor the effectiveness of the scheme through observations, book reviews and through discussions with pupils, staff, parents and stake holders.

Assessment is a major contributor in evidencing the impact and this is tracked by the class teacher to ensure that pupils are building on their skills and knowledge over time. It can then show progression. Staff carry out an initial baseline assessment against the unit’s learning intention, this is then reviewed throughout each of the 6 lessons and a final judgement is made. Activities are included in each lesson to give the children the opportunity to self-assess using simple pictorial resources designed in a child-friendly, age-appropriate manner. It also allows children of 6 and over the opportunity to identify areas for self-improvement. Our curriculum will build on the knowledge pupils have previously acquired, including in other subjects, with regular feedback given to the children.

Intent of RSHE

Intent (Why  are we teaching this?)

At Esh Winning Primary School, good relationships are fundamental to our ethos and our success in being a happy, caring and safe school. Relationships and Sex Education (RSHE) is lifelong learning about relationships, emotions, looking after ourselves, different families, sex, sexuality and sexual health. We aim for the children in our school to acquire the appropriate knowledge, develop their skills and form positive beliefs, values and attitudes. RSHE has a key part to play in the personal, social, moral and spiritual development of young people.

Implementation of RSHE

Implementation (How is this being taught in the classroom?)

RSHE is taught as explicit lessons through the PSHE and science curriculum but is also embedded in other areas of the curriculum and day-to-day life of the school. In PSHE, RSHE is specifically covered in the units ‘Relationships’ and ‘Changing Me’. In science, ‘Animals Including Humans’ and ‘Living Things and Their Habitats’ also cover the statutory requirements. Other elements are also covered in the Religious Education curriculum. Children are taught by familiar adults who they have a good rapport with, in order to facilitate constructive and supportive discussions around sensitive topics in a safe and secure environment. Staff are also fully supported in the delivery of these important lessons to ensure they are equipped in responding to the needs of the individual child and support children with any questions or concerns they may have. If staff feel uncomfortable or unsure when delivering the RSHE curriculum or dealing with individual pupil needs, they know where to seek advice and support. The RSHE curriculum has been mapped out clearly in the progression grids for PSHE and Science which ensure coverage of all of the statutory elements by the end of the primary phase. These are delivered at the appropriate stage for our children and staff, knowing their children and their class, may decide to make alternations to this delivery. This will be made in consultation with parents and senior leaders. Our high expectations of behaviour, interpersonal relationships, respect and tolerance of others reflect the British Values upheld in both our community and the wider world. Through our rigorous and progressive curriculum, children develop key skills and are prepared for the wider world beyond primary school; a world in which they can keep themselves safe and healthy, and thrive with the support of the positive relationships they forge with those around them.

Impact of RSHE

Impact (What is the effect?)

The impact of our curriculum offer will be that the standards of attainment across the school will meet or exceed those which are expected of our children nationally. We continuously assess the implementation and impact of our RSHE curriculum in order to achieve the highest outcomes possible across all year groups, and to ensure that we provide the support that is necessary for all children to have a good understanding of the complexities of relationships and sexual matters. This, in turn, ensures that our pupils have a secure knowledge and skills base to navigate their way through these subjects, now and in the future. Through our RSHE curriculum, we believe we can enhance children’s education and help them to become confident individuals who have positive body awareness, an in-depth knowledge of how to keep themselves safe and healthy and who will, through respect, tolerance and understanding, forge and maintain positive relationships with a diverse range of family and friendship groups.

Subject Progression

Useful Subject Information

Long Term Plans PSHE & RSHE