Hale CE Primary School- Curriculum Design- PSHE

Our vision is founded on Matthew 5: 14-16

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.  In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 5:14-16)

At our school, we strive to inspire our children to “Be The Light” by nurturing them to be Ready, Respectful, and Responsible in all aspects of their lives. Through our commitment to delivering a comprehensive PSHE curriculum, we provide children with the knowledge, understanding, and practical skills they need to grow into confident, healthy, and independent individuals. Our program supports them in building positive relationships, showing respect for others, and understanding both their rights and responsibilities as members of a community. It also encourages children to embrace diversity, appreciate different perspectives, and contribute positively to a multicultural society, preparing them not just for school, but for life.

Be Ready

Be Respectful

Be Responsible

A PSHE curriculum that ensures all children have the skills, knowledge, attitude and social understanding to ‘Be Ready’ in all aspects of their lives and equip them to become active and engaged citizens in the wider world.

A PSHE curriculum that develops every child’s ability to ‘Be Respectful, care, respect and understand themselves, others and the world in which they live. A curriculum that also ensures that every child feels valued and cared for and develops a strong sense of self.

A PSHE curriculum that provides a range of opportunities, designed to empower every child to ‘dream big’ ‘Be Responsible’ and develop a sense of what is possible for them to achieve now and in their future lives, taking ownership of their decisions and attitudes.

Curriculum Approach

Our mastery approach to lesson design is based upon our strong knowledge of pedagogy and our understanding of our children’s needs. This ensures that each lesson maximises both learning and our core beliefs of Be Ready, Be Respectful, Be Responsible.

Teachers place high value on the importance of PSHE and Citizenship in preparing children for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.

Children are taught about the many emotional aspects of life and how to manage their own emotions.

The PHSE Curriculum progressively develops emotional literacy, mindfulness, social skills and spiritual development through the application of a variety of teaching strategies to ensure children understand about good mental health and well-being.

Teachers take a mindful approach during PHSE lessons; ensuring learning is relevant to our children living in today’s world including addressing issues such as bullying, and internet safety. Staff are dedicated to supporting individual children in overcoming barriers to learning, including support for social, emotional and / or academic barriers.

Teachers ensure that they provide a safe, open and positive learning environment, based on trust and the importance of relationships between all members of the class, adults and children alike, ensuring children have no fear of asking questions.

Effective questioning is a crucial component of all our lessons. Key questions are planned to encourage children to think about their learning, to reflect upon previous learning and to make connections between new and existing knowledge.

We encourage adults and children to use both rich language and precise vocabulary, linked to the subject area that they are studying, so that they can better understand it and can then use this when reasoning, articulating and making generalisations.

All staff use a reflective approach to each lesson to evaluate learning and to plan next steps for all children. Improving children’s growth mind-set and resilience, is an essential part of our curriculum. Staff take time to understand what motivates children’s learning and the essential learning behaviours to help them achieve.

The school’s values of respect, responsibility, perseverance, honesty and sharing are embedded within the curriculum to empower our children to develop character.

Teachers use metacognition and self-regulation approaches to help children think about their own learning and teach them how to plan, monitor and evaluate their own knowledge, skills and understanding.

As part of our drive to improve children’s aspirations and intrinsic motivation for learning, enrichment opportunities within and outside school form an essential part of our curriculum.

Impact

Children’s knowledge, understanding and progress across all subject areas as well as their desire and ability to learn will be measured using a range of qualitative and quantitative strategies including: information from book scrutiny, performance data measured from starting point, lesson observations, drop ins, all stakeholder voice, collaborative research, use of external critical friends and self / peer evaluation. We also use Insight to measure pupil progress in each content domain.