PSHCE - Personal, Social, Health,
Cultural and Education
Intent
Our PSHE curriculum at King’s Oak Primary aims to help pupils understand how they are developing personally and socially, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up.
PSHE enables our pupils to become healthy, independent and responsible members of society. We strive to help them to understand how they are developing personally and socially, and how to tackle many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. We provide our pupils with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. They are also encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.
Children will acquire and make use of a range of skills to enable them to become reflective, independent and resilient learners, striving for excellence. We aim to deliver aspirational goals and high values of citizenship.
The delivered curriculum (scheme of work – PSHE Association) reflects the needs of our pupils and is tailored to meet specific needs. We expect teachers to use the PSHE programme to equip pupils with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions.
The curriculum is split into three core themes of: Health and Wellbeing, Relationships and Living in the Wider World. The children will meet these themes throughout the course of the year and the themes are built upon as the children move through school.
∙ Relationships
∙ A healthy, balanced lifestyle,
∙ Identification of risk and safety
∙ Diversity and equality
∙ Rights, responsibilities and consent
∙ Change and resilience
∙ Power
∙ Career
At KOP we believe that PSHE plays a vital part of primary education and needs to be taught at least weekly; although there will also be opportunity to make cross curricular links and these opportunities should not be missed. This enables staff to ensure full coverage of the PSHE scheme of work. There are always occasions where staff may feel it necessary to teach PSHE as a result of an issue which has arisen in their own class.
PSHE is integral to the development of children’s values in order for them to become a positive citizen in a forever changing community. Our school values which are, self-belief, responsibility, understanding, resilience, readiness, respect and team-spirit are an integral part of our PSHE curriculum and school assemblies. Our school values where children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural curiosity is stimulated, challenged and nurtured.
