Personal Social Health & Economic Education
Intent:
Our PSHE curriculum is designed to ensure those children leaving the Bird in Bush do so with the knowledge, understanding and emotions which enable them to play an active, positive and successful role in society. We aim to instil a sense of ambition and confidence within our children. We recognise the importance of preparing our pupils for the challenges they will face and with managing their own mental well-being.
Our PSHE curriculum develops learning and prepares our children for global citizenship. It promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils, preparing them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences for later life.
Our relationships education and health education curriculum equips our children with the confidence to remain safe and to understand and develop healthy relationships, both now and in their future lives.
Implementation:
Through the support of the DotCom Digital schemes of work for both PSHE and RSE, we deliver a curriculum that is tailored to meet the needs of the pupils at Bird in Bush. Our PSHE curriculum is designed to develop the knowledge, skills, qualities, and attributes that children need to thrive as confident, healthy, and responsible individuals, both in school and beyond. PSHE and RSE are taught from Year 1 to Year 6 using the DotCom Digital schemes of work. Children in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) access age-appropriate PSHE learning through Mini Mash, which supports their personal, social, and emotional development across the three key areas: Building Relationships, Managing Self, and Self-Regulation. This provides a strong foundation for future learning, wellbeing, and positive relationships.
Our PSHE programme is an integral part of our whole school PSHE education provision and is designed to meet the unique needs of pupils. Our provision of PSHE promotes opportunities to link British Values and Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural (SMSC) responsibilities. Cross curricular links are established, for example internet safety (computing), sustainability (science), leading healthy active lives (PE/PSHE/science). A flexible approach to timetabling allows for PSHE objectives to be met outside of the weekly lesson time. Our personal development pathway for each year group maps out a range of wider experiences for children to expand their health and economic education including first aid and financial wellbeing workshops.
Impact:
As a result of our well planned and flexible approach to PSHE children have a clear understanding of themselves, their community and the wider world.
Our adaptive approach to PSHE ensures the robust curriculum can respond to local/national/global events in an age appropriate way. The distribution of lessons complements key campaigns throughout the year, such as: Anti-Bullying Week, International Women’s Day and Mental Health Week.