PHSRE

Here at Spring Lane Primary, we believe that a quality, well-delivered PSHRE curriculum is at the forefront in equipping our pupils to be happy, healthy and responsible members of society. Our broad, well-balanced spiral curriculum offers a range of learning experiences that provide our pupils with the skills and knowledge needed to successfully tackle the social, moral and cultural issues that face the children growing-up in their local environment. Here at Spring Lane, children are taught through SCARF which provides a comprehensive scheme of work for PSHRE education and covers all of the DfE's statutory requirements for Relationships Education and Health Education. It also covers the learning opportunities within the PSHE Association’s Programme of Study, therefore providing for elements such as the rights of the child, caring for the environment, economic education, and children’s social, moral, spiritual and cultural (SMSC) education, including British Values, which are statutory requirements. 

As part of our school’s Personal, Social and Health Education programme, all children should receive lessons on relationships and sex. The purpose of Relationships and Sex Education is to provide knowledge and understanding of our relationships with others, understand how we grow and change as we get older and how to keep ourselves clean and healthy.  From Y4 onwards, this will include how the human body changes during puberty and the processes of human reproduction, within the context of relationships based on love and respect. We believe that if young people can start their transition into adulthood with good information and the confidence and knowledge to understand what is happening to them, they will grow into confident and healthy adults able to make positive choices. This can start with learning the basics about growing up and the sessions in school may reinforce what you are already doing at home.

Our PSHRE curriculum, while covering the National Curriculum, aims to excite the children and allow them to develop their own skills as valued citizens of society.

The school’s PSHRE provision supports the school’s aims of developing confident citizens and successful learners who are creative, resourceful and able to identify and solve problems. The social and emotional development of pupils is embedded throughout the entire school’s curriculum and culture. The school has a powerful combination of a planned thematic PSHRE program, built around a spiral curriculum of recurring themes, designed to:

1. Give pupils the knowledge and develop the self-esteem, confidence and self-awareness to make informed choices and decisions;

2. Encourage and support the development of social skills and social awareness;

3. Enable pupils to make sense of their own personal and social experiences;

4. Promote responsible attitudes towards the maintenance of good physical and mental health, supported by a safe and healthy lifestyle;

5. Enable effective interpersonal relationships and develop a caring attitude towards others;

6. Encourage a caring attitude towards and responsibility for the environment;

7. Help our pupils understand and manage their feelings, build resilience and be independent, curious problem solvers;

8. Understand how society works and the laws, rights and responsibilities involved.

We know there is a proven link between pupils' health and wellbeing, and their academic progress. Crucial skills and positive attitudes developed through comprehensive Personal, Social, Health and Economic education are critical to ensuring children are effective learners. 

Assessment of PSHRE is conducted by class teachers using children’s work, class discussions and conversations. This assessment is regular and informs planning for future lessons.