PSHE & RSE

PSHE & RSE

Our RSE intent  

Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) became a statutory subject in all primary schools from September 2020. Today’s children and young people are growing up in an increasingly complex world and living their lives seamlessly on and offline. This presents many positive and exciting opportunities, but also challenges and risks. In this environment, children and young people need to know how to be safe and healthy, and how to manage their academic, personal and social lives in a positive way. The aim of RSE is to put in place the key building blocks of healthy, respectful relationships, focusing on family and friendships, in all contexts, including online. This will sit alongside the essential understanding of how to be healthy.

Our PSHE Intent

PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) is a non-statutory subject, enabling schools to use a programme of study to meet the needs of their community. At Pinewood, PSHE is of great importance. Within PSHE education, pupils develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to manage their lives, now and in the future. We want our children to learn how to understand and regulate their feelings and to know what it means to be kind, honest and reliable. We want children to recognise and value difference and grow up to be tolerant of others. Safety is of utmost importance as is increasing skills of independence and a sense responsibility. We want our children to stay healthy, safe and prepared for life.

Implementation

Our curriculum centres on a value based and growth mind-set approach promoting positive behaviour, mental health, well-being, resilience and achievement. At Pinewood, we teach PSHE and relationships throughout our daily curriculum and it is centred around our school values and also has strong links with British Values: Responsibility, Resilience, Independence, Curiosity, Respect, Kindness, Honesty and Self-belief. . Our curriculum is developed around the ‘SCARF’ Coram Education programme of study which covers all objectives in the RSE statutory guidance. This programme begins in F1 and runs to the end of Year 2. Knowledge is revisited and built upon. SCARF stands for Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience and Friendship

These lessons promote a range of discussion topics and teaching styles such as circle time activities, role play, decision making and sharing of opinions and experiences with the class.

We are visited each year by the Scarf education team. They conduct workshops with the children across school