EXCELLENCE – HAPPINESS AND NURTURE – POWERFUL LEARNING
Subject Intent – PSHE (including RHE and RSE) Pupils will develop: • the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy and safe, and prepared for life and work. • an understanding of friendships and how to keep friendships positive and healthy. • an understanding of their own values and identity and skills to resolve difficulties, including maintaining and respecting personal boundaries and safe touch. • knowledge and understanding of similarities and differences and encouraging ways to value and respect difference and diversity. • their understanding and gratitude for special people in their lives. Pupils will be aware of increasing responsibilities towards themselves, including the role they can play and the difference they can make within their communities. • their understanding of diversity of families and the characteristics of healthy, positive family relationships. • Knowledge of how to stay healthy, both physically and mentally, maintain wellbeing and prevent illness. • An understanding of how people grow and change from babies, through puberty to adulthood.
Substantive Knowledge Personal safety and mental health and well being: •Personal boundaries and privacy •Safety networks •Safety skills •Feelings and emotions •Self awareness •Resilience and self-worth •Positive mental and emotional health and wellbeing.
Disciplinary Knowledge Healthy and happy friendships explores what being a good friend means, and how to keep friendships positive and healthy. Pupils investigate their own values and identity and develop skills to resolve difficulties within friendships, maintain and respect personal boundaries and safe touch, manage peer pressure and cope with the effects of change within friendships. Similarities and differences explores similarities and differences between people, exploring and encouraging ways to value and respect difference and diversity. It explores the effect that stereotypes can have, and how to identify and challenge them. It helps pupils recognise their own personal strengths and abilities and develop selfrespect. Caring and responsibility focuses on special people, why they are special and how they care for one another and keep one another safe. It examines pupils’ increasing responsibilities towards themselves and others as they get older, including the role they can play and the difference they can make within their communities. Families and committed relationships explores the importance and diversity of families, and the characteristics of healthy, positive family relationships. It enables pupils to recognise when they may feel unsafe within a family, and how to ask for help if they need it. It identifies the characteristics of a committed relationship, and at Year 6 explores human reproduction and other ways that people can start a family. Healthy bodies, healthy minds explores how to stay healthy, both physically and mentally to maintain wellbeing and prevent illness; how to develop a healthy, balanced lifestyle; and the consequences and effects of different habits and choices. It encourages the development of positive self-worth and recognition, and explores what might cause or influence unhealthy ways of thinking and how to overcome them. Coping with change explores how people grow and change from babies, through puberty to adulthood. At Key Stage 1, it examines ways in which children have grown and how they will continue to change, and how to develop resilience. At Key Stage 2, it identifies changes that will take place in children’s bodies during puberty, and explores ways to manage the emotional effects of life changes, including the transition to secondary school.