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PSHE & RSE

Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE)
and Relationship Sex Education (RSE)

 

For specific information about Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE), continue to scroll down the page.

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Intent

 

Our intention is that when children leave Welsh House Farm Community School, they will do so with the knowledge, understanding and emotions to be able to play an active, positive and successful role in today’s diverse society. We want our children to have high aspirations, a belief in themselves and realise that anything is possible if they put their mind to it. In an ever–changing world, it is important that they are aware, to an appropriate level, of different factors which will affect their world and that they learn how to deal with these so that they have good mental health and wellbeing. Our PSHE curriculum develops learning and results in the acquisition of knowledge and skills which will enable children to access the wider curriculum and prepare them to be a global citizen now and in their future roles within a global community. It promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils, preparing them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences for later life. Our Relationships and Sex Education enables our children to learn how to be safe, and to understand and develop healthy relationships, both now and in their future lives.

Implementation

 

Children are taught PSHE using ‘Jigsaw’ which is a spiral, progressive scheme of work, covering all of the above and 'aims to prepare children for life, helping them to know and value who they are and understand how they relate to other people in this ever-changing world’. There is a strong emphasis on emotional Literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health. It includes mindfulness to allow children to advance their emotional awareness, concentration and focus.

 

PSHE is taught through Jigsaw’s six half termly themes with each year group studying the same unit at the same time (at their own level):

 

  • Autumn 1: Being Me in My World
     

  • Autumn 2: Differences (including anti-bullying)
     

  • Spring 1: Dreams and Goals
     

  • Spring 2: Healthy Me
     

  • Summer 1: Relationships
     

  • Summer 2: Changing Me (including Sex Education)

 

It also identifies links to British Values and SMSC and is taught in such a way as to reflect the overall aims, values, and ethos of the school.

 

Wider Curriculum

 

We believe that focusing on developing a 'Growth Mindset' in our children will help them to build resilience, independence and confidence; embrace challenge; foster a love of learning; and increase their level of happiness. We do this through the language we use in class, praising children for their efforts, and using language to encourage children to change their way of thinking. This supports both our school and PSHE aims and values, and we focus on Growth Mindsets in all aspects of school life.

 

  • PSHE, including SMSC and BV, is an integral part of the whole school curriculum, and is therefore often taught within another subject area.

  • Visitors such as emergency services and the school nurse complement our PSHE curriculum to offer additional learning.

  • Assemblies are linked to PSHE, British Values and SMSC and cover any additional sessions that would benefit the whole school.

 

Impact

 

By the time our children leave our school they will:

 

  • Be able to approach a range of real life situations and apply their skills and attributes to help navigate themselves through modern life

  • be on their way to becoming healthy, open-minded, respectful, socially and morally responsible, active members of society

  • appreciate difference and diversity

  • recognise and apply the British Values of Democracy, Tolerance, Mutual Respect, Rule of Law and Liberty

  • be able to understand and manage their emotions

  • be able to look after their mental health and well-being

  • be able to develop positive, healthy relationships with their peers both now and in the future

  • understand the physical aspects involved in RSE at an age appropriate level

  • have respect for themselves and others

  • have a positive self esteem

 

Parents’ right to request their child be excused from Sex Education

 

“Parents have the right to request that their child be withdrawn from some or all of sex education delivered as part of statutory Relationships and Sex Education” - DfE Guidance, p.17.

 

At Welsh House Farm Community School, puberty is taught as a statutory requirement of Health Education and covered by our Jigsaw PSHE Programme in the ‘Changing Me’ Puzzle (unit). We conclude that sex education refers to Human Reproduction, and therefore inform parents of their right to request their child be withdrawn from the PSHE lessons that explicitly teach this i.e. the Jigsaw Changing Me Puzzle (unit) e.g.

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  • Year 4, Lesson 2 (Having a Baby)

  • Year 5, Lesson 4 (Conception)

  • Year 6, Lesson 3 (Conception, Birth)

 

“Parents have the right to request that their child be withdrawn from some or all of sex education delivered as part of statutory Relationships and Sex Education” - DfE Guidance, p.17.

 

At Welsh House Farm Community School, puberty is taught as a statutory requirement of Health Education and covered by our Jigsaw PSHE Programme in the ‘Changing Me’ Puzzle (unit), and we conclude from the DFE Guidance that sex education refers to Human Reproduction. In order to teach this in a scientific context, and knowing that National Curriculum Science requires children to know how mammals reproduce, we have opted to teach this within our Science curriculum, not within PSHE or Relationships and Sex Education, as we believe this is most appropriate for our children.

 

Therefore, the parent right to withdraw their child is not applicable. We are of course happy to discuss the content of the curriculum and invite you to contact Mrs B. Jay (Head teacher).

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