PSHE & RSHE

PSHE and RSHE Policy

What is PSHE?

PSHE Education (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education) is a planned programme of learning through which children and young people acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to successfully manage their lives – now and in the future. As part of a whole-school approach, PSHE Education develops the qualities and attributes pupils need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society.
What do schools have to teach in PSHE Education?
According to the National Curriculum, every school needs to have a broad and balanced curriculum that:
• promotes the spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school;
• prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life;
• promotes British values.
From September 2020, primary schools in England also need to teach Relationships and Health Education as compulsory subjects and the Department for Education strongly recommends this should also include age-appropriate Sex Education.
Schools also have statutory responsibilities to safeguard their pupils (Keeping Children Safe in Education, DfE, 2023) and to uphold the Equality Act (2010).
The Jigsaw Programme supports all.

What is PSHE?

 Intent

Our intention is that when children leave St Paul’s, they will do so with the knowledge, understanding and emotions to be able to play an active, positive and successful role in today’s diverse society. We want our children to have high aspirations, a belief in themselves and realise that anything is possible if they put their mind to it and persevere.  We offer a nurturing and inclusive learning environment in which each child is encouraged to develop their full potential and individual achievements are celebrated.  Our approach aims to develop the qualities and attributes children need to thrive as individuals, develop, positive, healthy relationships, and prepare them to be a global citizen, in an ever-changing world, now and in their future lives. We want the children to consider different factors which will affect their world and that they learn how to deal with these so that they have good mental health and well-being.

Implementation

 Impact

The impact of following the our PSHE and RSHE programme is that by the time children leave St Paul’s CofE (VC) Junior School pupils will:

• Have a ready willingness and ability to try new things, push themselves and persevere.
• Be able to understand and manage their emotions.
• Have a good understanding of how to stay safe, healthy and develop positive, healthy relationships now and in the future.
• Understand the physical aspects involved in RSE at an age-appropriate level.
• Have an appreciation of what it means to be a positive member of a diverse, multicultural society.
• Have a positive self esteem and respect for themselves and others.
• Be able to look after their mental health and well-being.

 SMSC

SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural) development opportunities are mapped throughout the Jigsaw scheme. Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural learning opportunities are brought together to form a cohesive picture, helping children to know and value who they are and understand how they relate to other people in the world.  Please click on the image below to see the SMSC Mapping Links across the Jigsaw scheme.

British Values

The Government set out its definition of British Values in the 2011 Prevent Strategy.  The Prevent Strategy, released to combat extremism in the UK, defined “British values” as the promotion of “democracy, rule of law, equality of opportunity, freedom of speech and the rights of all men and women to live free from persecution of any kind” 

•  The Department of Education has reinforced the need “to create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote ...fundamental British values.” This was reiterated in 'Promoting fundamental British values as part of SMSC in Schools', DfE, November 2014. "Through ensuring pupils' SMSC development, schools can also demonstrate they are actively promoting fundamental British values. Pupils must be encourage to regard people of all faiths, races and cultures with respect and tolerance."

 The term British Values and the values themselves might be slightly misleading in that these values are integral to so many countries throughout the world – they differ in no way from the values of the majority of cultures.   

 At St Paul’s CofE Junior School we value and celebrate the diverse heritages of all the cultures within our school and what it means to be part of British Society. We fully embrace and celebrate diversity and the many qualities this brings to our school.  

Our curriculum reflects, celebrates and teaches children about diversity, learning about a wide range of traditions.  We encourage our pupils to reflect on people’s values and what they mean for themselves and others, and wherever possible to use their values to guide their actions.   

Jigsaw contributes, as a good PSHE programme should, to the British Values agenda very significantly, both through the direct teaching of information and through the experiential learning children will enjoy.  The 5 strands of the British Values (Democracy, Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect, Tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs) have been mapped across every Puzzle and every Piece (lesson). Information regarding this can be found by clicking on the image below.

RSHE

Relationships, Sex and Health Education 

An important part of the Jigsaw PSHE programme is delivered through the 'Relationships' and 'Changing Me' puzzle pieces which are covered in the summer term. 

There are four main aims of teaching RSE:

• To enable children to understand and respect their bodies
• To help children develop positive and healthy relationships appropriate to their age and development
• To support children to have positive self-esteem and body image
• To empower them to be safe and safeguarded.

Parent/Carer Consultation

 As part of our curriculum and RSHE policy review, we held a consultation from 24/2/21 to 15/3/21 to a gather views from the full school community. Whilst there may well be differences of opinion about our RSHE provision, the consultation helped us to ensure our RSHE provision is appropriate for our pupils based on their: Age, physical and emotional maturity, religious and cultural backgrounds, special educational needs and disabilities. 

St Paul's Curriculum Tracker

 Year 3 Jigsaw Curriculum

year 3 jigsaw curriculum 2023.pdf

Year 4 Jigsaw Curriculum 

year 4 jigsaw curriculum 2023.pdf

Year 5 Jigsaw Curriculum

year 5 jigsaw curriculum 2023.pdf

Year 6 Jigsaw Curriculum

year 6 jigsaw curriculum 2023.pdf

Church of England Principles

church of england principles and charter in relation to rshe 1 .pdf

Enrichment

At St Paul’s we have many days throughout the academic year which have a focus on PSHE. In addition to these, many educational visits incorporate elements of PSHE and develop children within their own local area, community and areas further afield. They are given many varied opportunities to develop their skills in the wider environment and these hands-on life-lessons ensure increasing confidence for all children.  Educational visits and residential visits provide opportunities for children to practise their skills of citizenship, confidence and support increasing self-esteem.  We hold many special days and weeks where we learn the to value ourselves, keep safe and healthy, support and respect others:

• Anti-bullying week
• Children in Need / Comic Relief
• Children’s Mental Health Week
• Eco days
• Enterprise Week
• Healthy Living Week
• E-safety Day
• E-Safety workshops on online use and cyberbullying
• Police and fire service visits
• Dentist and nurse visits
• First aid training
• Shepton Mallet Window Wanderland
• Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival
• School Values Day
• Enrichment mornings
• School and class worships that link to Church of England values and PSHE 

Further Information and documents for parents and carers

Helpful books we also have in school