PSHE & SRE

At Kanes Hill Primary School, our PSHE (Personal, Social, Health, and Economic) and SRE (Sex and Relationships Education) curriculum follows the SCARF programme. It is designed to help pupils develop self-awareness, emotional well-being, and healthy relationships. Through engaging and age-appropriate lessons, children learn to manage their feelings, make responsible decisions, and understand the importance of respect and empathy.

The curriculum also provides a safe space for pupils to explore topics such as personal identity, friendships, online safety, and physical and emotional health, ensuring they are well-prepared for life now and in the future.

Curriculum Statement

Intent

At Kanes Hill Primary School, personal, social and health education (PSHE) forms an integral part of our learning which underpins all that we do across the entire curriculum and school environment. A core part of this includes enabling all children to realise their potential through promoting reflective, resilient and growth mindset behaviours. This enables our children to become healthy, independent and responsible members of a society. It aims to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, and tackle many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. Children build on knowledge of key concepts and the relationships between them from EYFS – Year 6; this prevents children seeing PSHE as a list of isolated facts. We are committed to developing our children’s awareness and mutual respect for diversity and focus and revisit this throughout our values and ethos. In Kanes Hill Primary School, the most effective model of delivery for personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education is two sequenced, spiral programme (SCARF) and (PSHE Association) that build on prior learning as children progress through school. And like any other school curriculum subject, it is imbedded throughout the year. (PSHE) education equips children with the knowledge, understanding, skills and strategies required to live healthy, safe, productive, capable, responsible and balanced lives. It encourages them to be enterprising and supports them in making effective transitions, positive learning and career choices, and in achieving economic wellbeing. A critical component of PSHE education is providing opportunities for children to reflect on and clarify their own values and attitudes, and explore the complex and sometimes conflicting range of values and attitudes they encounter now and in the future. PSHE education contributes to personal development by helping pupils to build their confidence, resilience and self-esteem, and to identify and manage risk, make informed choices and understand what influences their decisions. It enables them to recognise, accept and shape their identities. PSHE lessons will prepare children for being good citizens. They will develop emotional intelligence and the ability to articulate their feelings in order to maintain good mental health as well as understanding the importance of their physical health and being healthy. Using a growth mindset strategy, the children will become resilient, flexible learners, knowledgeable for the future.

SRE

At Kanes Hill Primary School, good relationships are fundamental to our ethos and our success in being a happy, caring and safe school. Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) is lifelong learning about relationships, emotions, looking after ourselves, different families, sex, sexuality and sexual health. We aim for the children in our school to acquire the appropriate knowledge, develop their skills and form positive beliefs, values and attitudes. RSE has a key part to play in the personal, social, moral and spiritual development of young people.

Knowledge Organisers

New learning overviews have been created from the newly released PSHE curriculum to ensure that all learning objectives are considered and planned for by all teachers. Previous planning that meets the criteria for the new curriculum has been updated and any new areas have been added and planned for each year group. This will ensure that the staff are confident with the knowledge that needs to be discussed.

Implementation

At Kanes Hill Primary school, the most effective model of delivery for personal, social, health, and economic is two sequenced programmes (SCARF and PSHE Association) to equip pupils with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions. This curriculum uses the National Curriculum as its base and is very much imbedded over time, progressively giving them key skills and concepts to be safe and healthy citizens. We embed a comprehensive RSHE, PSHE and wellbeing programme as a whole school approach promoting behaviour, safety, achievement and wellbeing. In addition, we explicitly teach our pupils with daily conversations about wellbeing and safety. Through our weekly assemblies, we embed our themes with discussions each day and supply
continuing support to our children. We deliver the PSHE curriculum by utilising first-hand experience and sharing good practice. However, we are aware that the delivered curriculum must reflect the needs of our pupils. We expect teachers to use a PSHE programme (SCARF and PSHE Association) to equip pupils with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions. We believe that the purpose of PSHE education is to build, where appropriate, on the statutory content already outlined in the national curriculum, the basic school curriculum and in statutory guidance on: ie, drug education, financial education, citizenship, personal safety, sex and relationship education (SRE- separate planning) and the importance of physical activity and diet for a healthy lifestyle. At Kanes Hill, we believe that PSHE plays a vital part of primary education and needs to be taught every half term in a unit block. This is the first block of teaching the children will experience each half term as we feel that discussing certain issues that arise early on sets the children up for a more successful half term. This enables staff to ensure full coverage of PSHE is taught in their year group. There are always occasions where teachers may feel it necessary to teach PSHE as a result of an issue arisen in their own class or as a national or global event occurs. PSHE is integral to the development of children’s values in order for them to become a positive citizen in a forever changing community. PSHE is an important part of school assemblies where children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural curiosity is stimulated, challenged and nurtured.

SRE

SRE is taught as explicit lessons through the PSHE and science curriculums but is also embedded in other areas of the curriculum and day-to-day life of the school. In PSHE, SRE is specifically covered in the units ‘Relationships’ and ‘Changing Me’ and in science ‘Animals Including Humans’ and ‘Living Things and Their Habitats’ also cover the statutory requirements; other elements are also covered in the Religious Education curriculum. Children are taught by familiar adults who they have a good rapport with, in order to facilitate constructive and supportive discussions around sensitive topics in a safe and secure environment. The SRE curriculum has been mapped out clearly in the progression grids for PSHE and science which ensure coverage of all of the statutory elements by the end of the primary phase; these are delivered at the appropriate stage for our children. Our high expectations of behaviour, interpersonal relationships, respect and tolerance of others reflect the British Values upheld in both our community and the wider world. Through our rigorous and progressive curriculum, children develop key skills and are prepared for the wider world beyond primary school, a world in which they can keep themselves safe and healthy and thrive with the support of the positive relationships they forge with those around them.

Further Opportunities

At Kanes Hill we provide opportunities for children to further enrich their learning. These include:
• Assemblies of Celebration and acts of Collective Worship
• Circle time
• Sports clubs and participating in inter-school and county tournaments & competitions
• Drama and music activities and productions
• Residential visits and day trips
• Clubs: Inclusion, Prayer, Feminism, Eco, Black History...etc
• Social and fund-raising events
• Theme days/events- Creative Arts days etc
• Mini enterprise projects
• Charity events
• Leadership opportunities, for example house captains and representatives on our Children’s Council etc,
• Local community talks

Impact

At Kanes Hill we want children to leave with a secure understanding of the full range of emotions along with strategies that enable them to manage various possibilities throughout their lives. PSHE education is a school subject through which pupils develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy and safe, and prepared for life and work. Our PSHE programme must have an impact on both academic and non-academic outcomes for pupils, particularly the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. Children will demonstrate and apply the British Values of Democracy,
Tolerance, Mutual respect, Rule of law and Liberty. They will also be prepared for the physical and emotional changes they will experience through puberty and develop the confidence to describe unwanted behaviours, who to go to for help and understand sexual exploitation is wrong.

SRE

The impact of our curriculum will be that the standards of attainment across the school will meet or exceed those which are expected of our children nationally. We continuously assess the implementation and impact of our RSE curriculum in order to achieve the highest outcomes possible across all year groups and ensure we provide the support that is necessary for all children to have a good understanding of the complexities of relationships and sexual matters and a secure knowledge and skills base to navigate their way through these, now and in the future. Through our RSE curriculum, we believe we can enhance children’s education and help them to become confident individuals who have positive body awareness, an in-depth knowledge of how to keep themselves safe and healthy and who will, through respect, tolerance and understanding, forge and maintain positive relationships with a diverse range of family and friendship groups.

Curriculum Map

pshe curriculum map.pdf

Pledges

Pupils create their own learning pledges, setting personal goals linked to the skills and knowledge they are developing across the curriculum. Children write their pledges and use them as a tool to assess their own progress, reflecting on how well they are meeting their targets. This self-assessment takes place weekly and at the end of each half term, helping pupils take responsibility for their learning, celebrate achievements, and identify areas for improvement.

Pledges encourage independence, resilience, and a growth mindset, supporting every child to reach their full potential.