Mrs Hayes
PSHE Lead and Trauma Informed Schools Lead
Intent - Why are we teaching this?
At Grampound with Creed School, we believe that personal, social, health, citizenship and economic education (PSHE) is fundamental to every child’s education. It is our aim that through our whole school PSHCE curriculum, vision and Christian values, we will support the development of the whole child, building strong foundations that enable each individual to shine brightly as a loving, trusted, wise and hopeful members of the school, local community and wider world. Our aim is for every child to be guided by Jesus’s teachings in Matthew 5:16 - “let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works” to enable all pupils to become independent, responsible and compassionate citizens who understand their rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be an active member of a diverse society.
Implementation - How is this being taught in the classroom?
At Grampound with Creed School, we have designed our own comprehensive PSHCE curriculum, that is uniquely tailored to meet the needs of our children. Our curriculum is based on the National Curriculum Programmes of Study and covers all the mandatory Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) topics. Our curriculum is based on three core themes:-
Health and Wellbeing: puberty, mental health, keeping active, dental care and healthy eating.
Relationships: respectful and healthy relationships (both on and offline), kindness and sex education.
Living in the wider world: career planning, financial literacy and exploring our rights and responsibilities.
Through our spiral curriculum, key learning is introduced, reinforced and built upon year by year at developmentally appropriate stages, in discrete weekly lessons.
To support the delivery of our PSHCE curriculum and make it as engaging and relevant as possible, we regularly invite visitors from organisations such as; Barnados, RNLI and Cornwall Wildlife Trust, into school to deliver curriculum content that compliments and extends our PSHCE teaching through the delivery of workshops and talks. To support our RSE lessons, we use a high-quality resource designed by the Family Planning Association (FOA) called “Growing up with Yasmine and Tom”.
Our youngest pupils in the Early Years Foundation Stage are supported to reach their milestones in self-confidence and self-awareness, managing feelings and behaviour and making relationships.
Our school vision is also embedded throughout our PSHCE curriculum, with teachers taking every opportunity to highlight role models from the school, local community or wider world, who have shone their light and made a difference to people’s lives (from a child in our school raising money for charity to celebrities such Marcus Rashford and Greta Thunberg). In PSHCE lessons and collective worships, children are encouraged to reflect on such role models and think about how they could shine their own light and make a difference in the school community and beyond.
Impact - What is the effect?
At Grampound with Creed, our spiral curriculum and wider provision will ensure that children are equipped in making positive decisions about their own health, wellbeing and relationships whilst also allowing them to build a strong understanding of our Christian values, school vision and British values; supporting them to become positive citizens in a diverse, fast-changing modern world.
The impact of our PSHCE curriculum is carefully monitored through ongoing assessment within PSHCE lessons as well as comprehensive termly assessments of children’s emotional health and wellbeing using Motional snapshots. The subject lead for PSHCE closely monitors the quality of teaching and learning through lesson observations, book scrutinies and pupil conferencing. Good examples of learning are shared on our central PSHCE display board and children who are noticed for ‘being the light’, are celebrated in weekly collective worships and newsletter. By the time each child leaves school, they are effectively equipped with the skills to tackle many of the moral, social and cultural issues they are likely to face during life’s journey and shine brightly in their contributions to school life and the wider community.
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