PSHRE

Intent

At Flitwick Lower School in their PSHE lessons, children will learn how to stay safe and healthy, build and maintain successful relationships and become active citizens, responsibly participating in society around them.  To embrace the challenges of creating a happy and successful adult life, pupils need knowledge that will enable them to make informed decisions about their wellbeing, health and relationships and to build their self-efficacy. Pupils can also put this knowledge into practice as they develop the capacity to make sound decisions when facing risks, challenges and complex contexts. Everyone faces difficult situations in their lives. These subjects can support young people to develop resilience, to know how and when to ask for help, and to know where to access support.

Implementation

At Flitwick Lower , our PSHE programme of learning and wider curriculum will enable children to meet the End of Key Stage Statements as set out in the Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education Guidance 2019.

Our PSHE programme is an integral part of our whole school PSHE education provision and is designed to meet the unique needs of pupils, through the implementation of the  PSHE Association thematic builder and  through our wider PSHE curriculum offer.The three key areas of study are:

• Relationships
• Health and Well being
• Living in the wider world

Our ever expanding wider provision of PSHE promotes opportunities to link British Values and Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural (SMSC) responsibilities. Along with our broad and balanced curriculum, there are overlaps with other subjects, for example Computing (E-safety), Science (recycling), PE (leading healthy active lives). Therefore, flexibility in the timetable needs to be accounted for as objectives for PSHE education will be met outside of the allocated timetable slot.

Flexibility in the timetable is also important to allow us to respond to local/national/global events that may occur and allow us to responds to any such event in an age appropriate way. The distribution of lessons complements key campaigns throughout the year, such as; Anti-Bulling Week, Black History Month, International Women’s Day and Mental Health Week.

As a school, we have a set of values that we promote through classroom learning and discussion and assemblies.

Impact

Children will understand different types of relationship and how to create positive, healthy and effective ones both in person and online.  Relationships within classrooms and on the playground will be positive with staff intervening where necessary in order to support this.

Children will understand the need to have a healthy body and mind and the ways they can achieve this, whether independently or with support from others.

They will also consider their place in the world and the ways they can contribute to their school community, their family and the wider world.

Our curriculum will support children in the social and emotional development as well as providing them with an understanding of their physical development. They will be able to make a positive contribution in the world.