St Peter's Church of England Junior School

PSHE & RSE

Subject Leader: Mrs A Brown

PSHE

At St Peter's C of E Junior School, our pupil’s personal, social, health and economic education is an important part of their learning journey. We aim to put in the key building blocks of learning about 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 and safe.

PSHE and Relationships Education at St Peter's enables our children to become healthy, independent and responsible members of a society. It aims to help them understand how they are developing personally, socially and emotionally, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up in today’s society. We provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. Our children are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.

We follow the Jigsaw PSHE scheme of work. This is a spiral approach to learning in which children are drip fed learning in an age appropriate way; with key themes being revisited and new learning introduced each year. This ensures that our children’s learning is ‘sticky’ and that children have a deep understanding.

At St Peter's C of E Junior School, we aim to provide the children with the knowledge, skills and understanding of mental health; what is means, how it can be recognised and tools to empower them with on how to cope with mental health and related issues. It is important each individual child has the confidence to recognise when mental health may affect their potential to succeed to the best of their ability; seeking help from school staff, including the two mental health first aiders we have at St Peter's (Mr Smith and Miss Sharpe). Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. We want to ensure each pupil is aware that Mental Health is important at every stage of life; from childhood, adolescence to adulthood. We will equip pupils with skills and knowledge to take into the wider world and be able to be resilient and bounce back from the challenges of everyday life.

 

Curriculum Document 

 

Careers in PSHE and RSE

The teaching and learning of PSHE and RSE supports careers, such as:

  • Teachers/Tutor

  • Nursing (mental well being)

  • Counsellor 

  • Coach 

  • Social Worker

  • Psychologist

  • GP

  • Doctor

 SMSC

At St Peter's C of E Junior School we promote the pupils’  SMSC through :

  • developing their ability to reflect on their own lives.
  • having a knowledge of, and respect for, different people’s values and feelings.
  • developing a sense of fascination in learning about themselves.
  • understanding the consequences of their behaviour and actions.
  • investigating views about ethical issues and appreciate the viewpoints of others.
  • be willing to cooperate with others and resolve conflicts.
  • demonstrating skills and attitudes  which will help them to fully participate in their lives in modern Britain.
  • appreciating the wide range of cultural influences that shape their heritage.
  • recognising shared values across a range of communities.
  • understanding how democracy  has shaped, and continues to impact on, Britain.
  • exploring  and celebrate diversity (religious, ethnic and socio-economic) in the local, national and global communities.

RSE

Our Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) curriculum encompasses the aims of the National Curriculum.

When our children leave us, we are confident that they will have achieved and gained an understanding of all of the agreed national expectations. Key learning and objectives in Relationships Education are organised using the following headings:

  • Families and people who care for me.
  • Caring friendships.
  • Respectful relationships.
  • Online relationships.
  • Being safe.

Parents and carers can contact their child's class teacher at any point to come in and discuss the content of lessons and to look at the materials and resources being used.