Intent

At Buckshaw, our curriculum aims to prepare our children for their future by raising aspirations and developing resilience within a happy, safe and caring environment. We prepare pupils for challenges of everyday life now and in the future by providing inspiring opportunities and experiences within and outside school including outside learning, after-school clubs, school trips and inspirational speakers.

The objectives of PSHE are to enable the children to:

• To know and understand a healthy lifestyle

• To be aware of safety issues

• To understand what makes for good relationships with others

• To have respect for others

• To be independent and responsible members of a community, such as school

• To understand what is meant by ‘Democracy’ and be positive and active members of a democratic society

• To recognise the value of economic wellbeing allowing children to apply life skills to the wider world preparing them for the future

• To develop self-confidence and self-esteem, and make informed choices regarding personal and social issues

• To develop good relationships with other members of the community

• To actively promote British Values (BV) 

Implementation

To enable progression throughout school, teachers will create building blocks and a sequence of learning map. At Buckshaw Primary School, establishing a safe, open and positive learning environment based on trusting relationships between all members of the class, adults and children alike, is vital.

We will create a safe and supportive learning environment at Buckshaw Primary School by teachers following our Safeguarding and Confidentiality policies. In addition, teachers enable each class to establish a ‘group agreement’. Teachers and children will devise their own ‘group agreement’ at the beginning of the year and these are reinforced at the beginning of every PSHE lesson so both children and teachers have ownership of them. Teachers encourage distancing techniques, including stories, clips from 1Decision and role-play activities to ‘de-personalise’ discussions.

Building on the foundations laid in Early Years, the curriculum is sequenced within and between KS 1 and KS 2. We teach PSHE and citizenship in Reception as an integral part of the curriculum. As the reception and nursery class is part of the EYFS, we relate the PSED aspects of the children’s work to the objectives set out in the Early Learning Goals (ELGs). Our teaching in PSHE matches the aim of developing a child’s personal, emotional and social development as set out in the ELGs. We also support citizenship education in EYFS classes, when we teach ‘Understanding the World’. We ensure our curriculum builds on prior learning by creating a PSHE Curriculum Overview including key skills for both key stages and planning for prior learning before each lesson.

We allocate weekly one-hour lessons for each year group during curriculum time to PSHE. Our PSHE education provision is mapped and planned effectively using the PSHE Association Programme of study linked to our Needs Analysis along with Question-based programme builder which has been adapted to the needs of Buckshaw Primary’s pupils. We use PSHE Association accredited and updated resources including, 1Decision. PSHE topics are introduced through other areas of the curriculum (Science, Physical Education, ICT and online safety, Religious Education) and these can be seen on the ‘Whole School Curriculum Map’ before being revisited in standalone PSHE lessons through the spiral PSHE education programme.

We will determine pupils’ progress by moving intended learning outcomes from each year group to the next as prior learning which will be identified in pupils’ books. We will ensure the curriculum is broad and balanced by using whole class PSHE books and diaries that communicate prior learning and intended outcomes as children move classes throughout KS1 and KS2.