PSHE

Overview

At Lodge Primary school, our bespoke Lodge PSHE Life Skills curriculum has been designed specifically with our pupils in mind. Our broad curriculum helps our children to become healthy, independent and responsible citizens of a diverse society and helps prepare our pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences for now and later life.

Intent

Our intent is to deliver a broad curriculum that will maximise positive outcomes for our pupils. We believe that our PSHE Life Skills curriculum coverage is a vital tool in preparing children for life in society now and in the future. The topics we teach encourage children to value themselves, appreciate others and become active, confident members of the community and responsible citizens of the world.

Our children focus on the knowledge and understanding they need to make informed decisions about their well-being, health and relationships, and to build their self-efficacy. 

Our curriculum covers a wide range of topics relating to physical and mental health, wellbeing, safeguarding and healthy relationships. By building self-esteem, resilience and empathy, our effective PSHE Life Skills programme can tackle barriers to learning and raise aspirations for our pupils. The units support social, moral, spiritual and cultural development and provide children with protective teaching on essential safeguarding issues, developing knowledge of when and how they can seek support and ask for help. The units also support the teaching of fundamental British Values.

At Lodge Primary School, we have created a bespoke PSHE Life Skills curriculum which uses the PSHE Association and Twinkl Life planning and curriculum. In addition, we have included elements from the local Sandwell Wellbeing ‘Healthy Mind, Happy Me’ curriculum and the Birmingham Approach to Relationships and Health Education.

Teaching and learning in the school and classroom will show progression across all key stages within the PSHE Life Skills core themes: health and wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world.

Our PSHE Life Skills curriculum is a spiral curriculum where key units are revisited every two years. Each phase builds on the vocabulary, knowledge and skills taught in the previous to allow children to acquire further knowledge, know more and remember more. With the aim of developing thoughtful and resilient learners who have an aware of their own and others emotional and physical needs to give them the confidence and skills to reach their full potential as they approach adolescence. Our PSHE also incorporates an age appropriate understanding of RHE, as set out in the statutory guidance, enabling all children to be safe and to understand and develop healthy relationships.

Implementation

Overview	Our PSHE Life Skills curriculum intends to develop the whole child through carefully planned and resourced lessons that develop the knowledge, skills and attributes children need to protect and enhance their wellbeing. The PSHE association/Twinkl Life’s PSHE and Citizenship Scheme of Work is designed to be taught in thematic units consisting of six lessons, with supporting materials including a planning overview, clear learning journey and relevant materials.
Scheme of work	Our scheme of work covers all of the required objectives and follows the three core areas of Health and Wellbeing, Relationships and Living in the Wider World from the Learning Outcomes and Core Themes provided by the PSHE Association Programme of Study, which is recommended and referred to by the DfE in all key documentation relating to PSHE provision in schools. These units are taught in a spiral curriculum that revisits each theme every two years. This enables children to recall and build upon previous learning, exploring the underlying principles of PSHE education regularly at a depth that is appropriate for the age and stage of the child. We have also implemented elements of the Sandwell ‘Healthy Mind, Happy Me’ curriculum which has been developed with the Sandwell population clearly in mind. This curriculum focuses on mental and emotional wellbeing and includes characters from the local area and it reflects our diverse community. The Birmingham Approach to Relationships and Health Education has been incorporated into our curriculum. This programme of study places strong emphasis on the personal development and mental well-being of pupils as we believe they are just as important as the academic subjects taught in schools. It draws on the application of skills and knowledge identified by the DfE. Overall, our curriculum coverage includes online safety, relationships, physical and mental wellbeing, keeping safe, identifying risks and harms, developing emotional wellbeing and self-regulation - all of which support safeguarding while promoting life skills for children such as empathy, identification of feelings, self-care, respect, money management and an understanding of the world around them.
Lesson frequency and links.	PSHE Life Skills is taught on a weekly basis, with some content also being taught through our whole school and key stage assemblies which also link to PSHE, British Values, SEMH and SMSC strands of knowledge.
Assessment	Assessment for learning opportunities are built into units, which enable reflective learning and allow teachers to evaluate and assess progress. Each lesson begins with a discussion of children’s existing knowledge and experience, providing an opportunity for baseline assessment. The lessons end with an opportunity to consolidate and reflect upon learning. For every unit of work, children will complete a mindmap relating to their topic and key questions before the unit commences to assess their knowledge. We understand that children have unique starting points and this initial assessment can help inform teachers of any particular needs. For summative assessment purposes, children will complete a learning record journey page at the end of the unit. Firstly, they will add to their original mindmap in a different colour showcasing what new knowledge they have acquired. Secondly, they will complete a learning journey record page where they can describe their new knowledge skills and how they can use what they have learnt at home, school and in the wider world. This will help to demonstrate any progress that has been made.

Impact

At Lodge Primary, our spiral PSHE Life Skills curriculum and wider provision will ensure that children will have developed their skills and have sound knowledge when making decisions regarding wellbeing, online safety and keeping safe at home, school and in the wider world. The curriculum will also enable our learners to become mentally and physically healthy, independent and responsible members of a society. Overall, we understand a successful PSHE education can have a positive impact on the whole child, including their academic development and progress, by mitigating any social and emotional barriers to learning and building confidence and self-esteem.

At the end of KS2 children will be able to demonstrate:

an understanding of our diverse and complex world, and empathy and respect for people from a different culture, faith and race.
resilience and self-regulation and a good understanding of their own health and wellbeing, especially supporting their mental/emotional development and self-regulation.
demonstrate kindness and respect towards themselves and others.
have the courage and ability to try new things, challenge themselves and persevere.
have a good understanding of how to stay safe online and wider world and how to develop good relationships.
have an appreciation of what it means to be a positive member of a diverse, multicultural community.
a good understanding of British Values and how to apply these in school and the wider world.
an understanding of their own wellbeing needs, practise self-care and contribute positively to the wellbeing of those around them.
knowledge and skills that prepare children for life after primary school and the foundations to live and succeed in modern Britain.
have an understanding of economic responsibility and money management.

At Lodge Primary, impact can be measured in a variety of ways including:

books, showing evidence of work including formative and summative assessment in PSHE (Life Skills books, show progression of skills and knowledge).
pupil and staff voice discussions and questionnaires.
learning walks to view teaching and learning in PSHE Life Skills lessons.
staff CPD – through staff meetings there are opportunities for dialogue and discussion to develop and improve the PSHE Life Skills curriculum.
children’s reflection on their own PSHE Life Skills learning.