PSHE
Subject Lead: Mrs Dybell
A warm welcome to our PSHE page. At St Joseph's, our curriculum has been designed to excite and inspire all of our children, ensuring it is purposeful, progressive and meaningful for every child.
Intent
Our PSHE curriculum is purposeful, progressive and empowering for all pupils. The curriculum provokes curiosity and excitement for all. Gospel Values, Trust Character Virtues and British Values are threaded throughout. The PSHE and RSE curriculum build on the statutory content outlined in the National Curriculum with the aim to provide pupils with the knowledge and understanding they need to make informed choices and to be a positive influence in the communities that they belong to. It gives pupils the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy and safe, and to prepare them for life and work in modern Britain. We intend that all pupils will recognise and value that every individual is special and unique in the image and likeness of God.
Implementation
The curriculum has been designed to provide opportunities for pupils to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding they need to grow into independent and respectful members of society, by addressing topics most relevant in this current climate. The Ten;Ten RSE programme has been followed as well as being supplemented with additional resources and programmes that provide pupils with a spiral, coherent PSHE and RSE curriculum. Topics that are covered across the different year groups include safeguarding; sexual harassment; child on child abuse; protected characteristics; financial capability; mental health; and online safety. The sequence of the long-term plan ensures that themes are taught intentionally as opposed to incidentally.
Teachers will deliver lessons, which teach children the steps they can take to protect and support their own and others’ health, safety, and happiness. Learning is reflected through the active role our children play in our community, and books show independent work, group work and evidence of role play or group activities.
All children have the opportunity to express themselves, talk about relevant matters, and learn without judgement. We ensure that our children have a voice during learning walks, and at regular meetings for each pupil’s voice group. When delivering PSHE, our priority is ensuring that all parents understand and can support their children at home, in the hope of extending and building on the learning children do at school. Parents are consulted on and have a voice in how and what their children learn.
Impact
Pupils will be able to effectively manage their relationships and make informed lifestyle choices. They will be able to apply their learning to real life situations and make positive contributions to the wider community in which they live and beyond. Attitudes and behaviour demonstrates respect tolerance and high aspirations of themselves. The PSHE curriculum provides pupils with the knowledge, skills and understanding they need for their next step in their education and adulthood.
Children will leave us ready for their next step into Secondary school and are armed with skills, knowledge and understanding that they can take forward into adulthood. Our children leave us prepared for life in an ever-changing modern Britain. They have the tools they need to succeed, keep themselves safe and thrive.
We measure impact by the triangulation of lesson observations, work scrutiny and pupil voice, as well as this we carry our yearly subject leader/ teaching staff discussions – where areas for development are discussed, and for which targets for the year are collaboratively developed.
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery/"
-Anne Frank.