Intent

At St Benedict’s Catholic Primary School, we want our pupils to develop knowledge, skills and attributes which keep themselves healthy and safe, and prepare them for life and work in the future. We aspire for our pupils to play a positive role in contributing to the school and wider community. We live in a constantly changing and evolving society, where our children face an increasing amount of safeguarding issues. It is therefore important that we teach our pupils high quality PSHE lessons which give them the skills they need to keep safe and healthy.

We intend to do this by:

  • Teaching the key three themes in and across all year groups:
    • Health and Wellbeing
    • Relationships
    • Living in the Wider World

Providing learning opportunities that:

  • promote the spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils;
  • prepare pupils with opportunities, responsibilities and experiences for their next stage;
  • promote Fundamental British values of Democracy, Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect and Tolerance of different faiths and beliefs.

Implementation

We value Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) as one way to support children’s development as human beings, to enable them to understand and respect who they are, empower them with a voice and to equip them for life and learning. To ensure progression, we use Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE, as our chosen teaching and learning programme and tailor it to the needs of our children. The Jigsaw programme offers a comprehensive, carefully thought-through scheme of work which brings consistency and progression to our children’s learning in this vital curriculum area.

Through long, medium and short term planning that is progressive and cohesive across the year groups and provides opportunities to revisit previous learning:

  • All teachers record pupils PSHE learning in a PSHE floor book
  • Teachers are aware of the learning outcomes that are taught
  • All teachers ensure the learning outcomes are met through their planning
  • All teachers use Ten:Ten to teach the RSE lessons

Impact

  • Pupils will have resilience
  • Pupils will be aware of their mental and emotional health and be able to talk about how they feel
  • Pupils will have knowledge about how to keep themselves safe and healthy both emotionally and physically
  • Pupils have awareness of British Values, protected characteristics and diversity
  • Pupils have an understanding of Relationships and Sex education
  • Pupils will be prepared for their next stage
  • Pupils will have financial capability

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