PSHE

PSHE/RSE Vision

We believe in providing children with the education from PSHE to improve their health and wellbeing for the future.

The key purpose of PSHE/RSE at Shebbear Community School is to:

*Learn about relationships which incorporates Healthy Relationships, Feelings and Emotions and Valuing Differences

*Learn about Health and Well-Being which incorporates Healthy Lifestyles, Keeping Safe and Growing and Changing

*Learn about Living in the Wider World which incorporates Rules, Rights and Responsibilities, Caring for the Environment and Money

By the end of year six we want all children to be able to:

*Learn about the effects that drugs and alcohol can have on the body

*Develop positive relationships with others over time and understand how to maintain good mental and physical health not least as they grow older and their bodies change.

*Learn about different cultures to their own and are able to value everyone, regardless of any differences that may exist.

*To understand their contribution to society and their role in upholding fundamental British Values.

*To keep themselves safe both in the real and virtual worlds.

*To be made aware of their environment and the need to protect it as well as having a good financial awareness as they move towards adulthood.

PSHE (incorporating RSE) Curriculum

Our Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) curriculum is based on the SCARF programme of study. It also incorporate health education and spans the full period of time the children are at the school from reception through to Year 6. The curriculum runs on a two year rolling programme. There are three key themes which themselves have specific sub-themes.

Relationships which incorporates Healthy Relationships, Feelings and Emotions and Valuing Differences

Health and Well-Being which incorporates Healthy Lifestyles, Keeping Safe and Growing and Changing

Living in the Wider World which incorporates Rules, Rights and Responsibilities, Caring for the Environment and Money

Each half term will have a theme and a sequence of age appropriate lessons, using the SCARF lesson materials, will be delivered. The lesson themes are supplemented through assemblies which link in to provide a coherent approach.

All children will be taught scientific vocabulary for body parts from September 2026.

For our KS2 pupils, additional input is used when teaching sex education themes. Similarly, we use appropriate opportunities and resources to enrich our curriculum such as visits from the Life Bus, schools trips (such as one to the Crown Court in Exeter) and visitors to school to talk about various issues such as health and well-being.

Our curriculum intent is that children develop positive relationships with others over time and understand how to maintain good mental and physical health not least as they grow older and their bodies change. We want children to understand about different cultures to their own and are able to value everyone, regardless of any differences that may exist. We teach the children to understand their contribution to society and their role in upholding fundamental British Values. Likewise, we teach the children to keep themselves safe both in the real and virtual worlds. Children are made aware of their environment and the need to protect it as well as having a good financial awareness as they move towards adulthood. The curriculum can also be adapted to respond to specific incidents or topical issues.

PSHE Long Term Curriculum