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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. Many of the topic areas included in the core themes are supported by our ‘Golden Rules’. In our school, the children are encouraged to follow the Golden 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

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 Golden Rules:

We work hard, we do not waste time.
We are respectful, we say 'please', 'thank you', 'I'm sorry' and 'excuse me'; we accept an adult’s decisions and follow their instructions and we show respect for adults and each other.
We are gentle and kind, we do not hurt anybody and we do not hurt other people’s feelings.
We listen, we don’t interrupt.
We keep safe, we walk quietly inside school in an orderly manner at all times, use equipment sensibly and play safely with each other.
We look after property, we do not waste or damage things.
We are honest, we do not cover up the truth.