PSHE
Our Vision for Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education PSHE At Our Lady’s we believe PSHE equips children with the knowledge, understanding, skills and strategies required to live healthy, safe, productive, capable, responsible, and balanced lives. Developing every child as a unique human is central in all we do. We follow the Kapow scheme for PSHE.
The scheme aims to give children the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that they need to effectively navigate the complexities of life in the 21st Century. The curriculum covers key areas which will support children to make informed choices now and in the future around their health, safety, wellbeing, relationships, and financial matters and will support them in becoming confident individuals and active members of society.
Intent
Our aim is to celebrate and develop every child to be the best they can be. They will be given opportunities to enable them to develop feelings for and to empathise with the feelings and actions of others, seeing points of views and beliefs other than their own. They will explore ethical issues and can apply their personal values to situations, giving reasons for their decisions and actions. We aim to promote positive Mental Health for every member of our school community including, staff, pupils, and families. PSHE also makes a significant contribution to pupils’ spiritual, moral, social, and cultural (SMSC) development, their behaviour and safety, and to their emotional wellbeing.
Implementation
A range of teaching and learning activities are used to ensure that all children can access learning and make progress. In key stage 1 and 2, there is an introductory lesson at the start of each year group which provides the opportunity for children and teachers to negotiate ground rules for the lessons. These introductory lessons can then be referred to throughout the year to help create a safe environment. All lessons include ideas for differentiation to stretch the most able learners and give additional support to those who need it. Many lessons, stories, scenarios, and video clips provide the opportunity for children to engage in real life and current topics in a safe and structured way. Role-play activities are also included to help children play out scenarios that they may find themselves in. There are meaningful opportunities for cross-curricular learning, in particular with Computing for online safety and Science for growing, nutrition, teeth, diet and lifestyle. The scheme provides consistent messages throughout the age ranges including how and where to access help.
Impact
Each unit of lessons comes with an Assessment quiz and Knowledge catcher. The Knowledge catchers list some of the lesson titles in mind-map or table format and can be used at the start of a unit to see what the children already know and to inform planning. Then pupils can revisit the same version of the Knowledge catcher at the end of the unit to add what else they now know, further demonstrating their progression in learning.
