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PERSONAL, SOCIAL, HEALTH AND ECONOMIC EDUCATION (PSHE)

Our PSHE curriculum helps children to build their confidence, resilience and self-esteem and to identify and manage risk. They develop the skills to make informed choices and understand what influences their decisions. It enables children to respect themselves, others and to celebrate diversity whilst managing their emotions and communicating effectively. Developing an understanding of themselves, empathy and the ability to collaborate with others helps children to form and maintain good relationships and better enjoy and manage their lives.

We teach PSHE through three core themes:

Health and Well Being

Topic areas:

healthy lifestyles
keeping safe
growing and changing

Relationships

Topic areas:

healthy relationships
feelings and emotions
valuing difference

Living in the Wider World

Topic areas:

rights and responsibilities
taking care of the environment
money matters

We incorporate PSHE into all curriculum areas and throughout the school day. We also explore themes during many of our assemblies and develop those themes during circle time, playtimes and lunchtimes. Most of our topics are covered by the ‘myHappymind’ programme implemented in both the EYFS and KS1. Many of the topic areas included in the core themes are supported by the ‘Cobbs’ Rules’ and the children are encouraged to follow the 'Cobbs’ Rules' for behaviour and learning.

What PSHE looks like in our school in Early Years

Cygnets - Learning about staying safe when there is a fire
Cygnets - Mrs. Mistry came in to teach us about Diwali
Cygnets - Practising cutting to make a chinese lantern, Chinese New Year
Cygnets - Wellbeing Week, using emojis to learn about emotions
Nursery - Taking part in Census Day
Nursery - Taking part in Red Nose Day
Nursery - Lion dancing, Chinese New Year
Nursery - Exploring Chinese artefacts during Chinese New Year
Nursery - Being happy and healthy inside and out - hand massage
Nursery - Celebrating kindness
Nursery - Mindfulness
Nursery - Learning about road safety (lollipop person)
Nursery - Painting to celebrate the Year of the Tiger, Chinese New Year
Nursery - Red Nose Day
Nursery - Dental Visit
Reception - Designing and making flags for St George's Day
Reception - Empathy Day learning that 'big ears listen well
Reception - Counting for Census Day
Reception - Remembrance Day
Reception - Rainbows Thinking Day
Reception - Mini Makery Wellbeing Week
Reception - Trying apples and honey whilst learning about Rosh Hashanah
Reception - Casting votes in the polling station
Reception - Art therapy
Reception - Hand washing
Reception - Mini Makery
Reception - Pancake Day
Year 2 - Learning all about keeping safe at Safety Central
Year 2 - Learning all about keeping safe at Safety Central

Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC)

Spiritual, moral, social and cultural education is promoted through all subjects and permeates everything we do in school. It is part of our ethos and everyone working in school recognises that it is of paramount importance in developing children’s sense of self, their happiness and their growing understanding of others and the world in which they live. Through SMSC and PHSE we promote the British values of individual liberty, democracy, rule of law and mutual respect and tolerance. Look through our photographs to see examples of how we promote British Values in school through voting and celebrating special days and events.

See What PSHE looks like in our school in the Early Years and Key Stage 1 photo slideshows above.

Our Rules:

Ready - represents so many of the behaviours which are important to teach our young children. It prevents any valuable learning time being wasted and enables our school to function effectively.
Kind - is a word that all of our children know. We tell our children that it is important to be kind, but what does that mean? At The Cobbs, our children will be taught many ways to be kind to themselves and others.
Safe - the safety and wellbeing of the children is our highest priority. Parents and families send their children to our school each day, trusting us to provide a secure environment in which they will flourish. We do everything we can to ensure that this expectation is a reality in our school and that includes teaching the children how to keep themselves and others safe.

What PSHE looks like in our school in Key Stage 1