PERSONAL, SOCIAL, HEALTH AND ECONOMIC EDUCATION INCLUDING RELATIONSHIPS AND SEX EDUCATION

​At North Tawton Primary School:

• PHSE teaching occurs through carefully planned opportunities and incidental opportunities that arise.
• Our planning provides a ‘spiral programme’ which introduces new and more challenging learning, while building on what has gone before, which reflects and meets the personal developmental needs of the children and young people.
• We take a positive approach which focuses on what children can do to keep themselves and others healthy and safe and to lead happy and fulfilling lives.
• We offer a wide variety of teaching and learning styles within PSHE education, with an emphasis on interactive learning and the teacher as facilitator.
• We provide information which is realistic and relevant and which reinforces positive social norms.
• We encourage young people to reflect on their learning and the progress they have made, and to transfer what they have learned to say and to do from one school subject to another, and from school to their lives in the wider community.
• PSHE education is embedded within other efforts to ensure children and young people have positive relationships with adults, feel valued and those who are most vulnerable are identified and supported.
• We provide opportunities for children and young people to make real decisions about their lives, to take part in activities which simulate adult choices and where they can demonstrate their ability to take responsibility for their decisions.
• We provide a safe and supportive learning environment where children can develop the confidence to ask questions, challenge the information they are offered, draw on their own experience, express their views and opinions and put what they have learned into practice in their own lives.

 
Intent 
At North Tawton Primary School we believe personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education is a vital part of our children’s education. Through the promotion of good physical and mental health, our staff work collaboratively and as role models to help our children develop into confident, happy, successful and resilient young people. Throughout we aim to equip our children with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills to make safe and informed decisions. We want children at North Tawton to acquire and develop knowledge and understanding of the world around them in order to help them develop as a young citizen. In an ever changing world, it is important that the children are aware, to an appropriate level, of different elements that will affect their world and the people in it.  
PSHE plays an important role in promoting Safeguarding, Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) Education, incorporating British Values, which is implicit in the school ethos and is planned into all aspects of the curriculum. 
Developing an understanding of themselves, empathy and the ability to work with others will help our children form and maintain good relationships and explore the complex and sometimes conflicting values and attitudes they encounter in a tolerant and accepting manner.  

Our curriculum has four features

• is ambitious for all pupils
• is carefully and coherently planned and sequenced
• is successfully adapted, designed and developed for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities
• is broad and balanced for all pupils

 
We are aware of the way that PSHE supports many of the principles of safeguarding and links closely to schools’ Safeguarding Policy. We are all aware of the important role the PSHE curriculum has in supporting school to implement the 9 protected characteristics of The Equality Act 2010.

Through our PSHE curriculum, we recognise our duty to ‘actively promote’ and provide opportunity for children understand the fundamental British values first set out by the Government in the ‘Prevent’ strategy in 2014, of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs in order for them to become fair, tolerant and confident adults in a forever challenging world  
PSHE education equips pupils 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 and young people 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, develop healthy relationships and understand what influences their decisions. It enables them to recognise, accept and shape their identities, to understand and accommodate difference and change, to manage emotions and to communicate constructively in a variety of settings.
 
Developing an understanding of themselves, empathy and the ability to work with others will help pupils to form and maintain good relationships, develop the essential skills for future employability and better enjoy and manage their lives.

OUR CURRICULUM

• ​Our Curriculum
• Our Approach
• Early Years Foundation Stage
• English
• Mathematics
• Science
• Art and Design
• Computing
• Design and Technology
• Geography
• History
• Modern Foreign Languages
• Music​
• PSHE including RSE
• Physical Education
• Religious Education
• ​Collective Worship
• Special Educational Needs
• Assessment and Reporting

​Implementation 
Our PSHE objectives are taught throughout the school using the Coram Life Education SCARF Programme of Study.  It also features across the curriculum especially in our RE, Science and PE curriculum. At North Tawton, we teach our PSHE (SCARF) sessions in discreet lessons led by the class teachers, but also in assemblies. We provide our children with opportunities to learn about rights and responsibilities and promote random acts of kindness, which we include in our celebration assemblies and during themed weeks such as ‘Anti Bully week’ and ‘Children’s Mental Health Awareness week.’ Many opportunities arise during the school week for our children to work effectively in groups, take on roles of responsibility and to come together as a whole school community to celebrate and reflect on our journey together. The SCARF programme is split into three core themes of: 

Health and Wellbeing 

• Relationships 
• Living in the wider world  

Each half termly, whole school unit of work follows a carefully sequenced programme of lessons which link closely with safeguarding, British values and rights and responsibilities.   
After consultation with parents and governors, we have implemented a revised SRE policy and teaching sequence in line with the needs of our pupils.   

Impact 
Our PSHE curriculum ensures that all our children become engaged, active and responsible citizens who recognise and value their contribution to wider, modern society. They gain a perspective of themselves as both local and global citizens. Our school values and PSHE programme are vital in promoting health, happiness and well-being so that all our children can excel in all aspects of school life and indeed life in general. Through our PSHE curriculum we believe we are preparing our children for the next stage in their education as well as preparing them for adult life.   

This Curriculum statement is linked to: 

• Accessibility Plan 
• Equality Policy and statements SRE Policy 
• Behaviour Policy 

​Click here to see the progression in PSHE across the school through the SCARF programme.
Parents can find more information about the Scarf programme here 

RSE Policy