PSHCE and RSE
Subject Leader - Mrs Beckett
Intent
At St Joseph’s Catholic Primary, we understand the importance of PSHE and RSE to enable our children to become independent, confident, healthy and responsible members of our society. We focus on developing the “whole child” intellectually, morally, socially and spiritually. Through our whole-school approach to PSHE, it is our belief that excellence in these areas will lead to excellence across the curriculum and beyond in later life.
PSHE is taught across the school from Reception-Year 6 on a weekly basis. As a school, we follow the Scarf (Coram Life) PSHE scheme which includes age appropriate RSE. Our PSHE curriculum equips children with relevant and meaningful content, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health. With an ever changing society, we are able to provide our children with a strong understanding of the diverse world around them and support them in playing a positive role in contributing to the school and the wider community.
Weaving through the heart of our PSHE teaching, is a commitment to enhancing and promoting our core Christian Virtues that we follow.
Implementation
At St Joseph's we use the Coram Life Education Programme ‘SCARF’ to enrich our PSHE themes.
Our PSHE curriculum is taught in discreet weekly sessions using the Scarf half - termly units. These provide clear skills and knowledge progression. They ensure that skills and knowledge are built on year by year and sequenced appropriately to maximise learning for all children.
Impact
Following the implementation of the PSHE curriculum at St Joseph’s, children will be respectful, independent, responsible and confident members of society within London and the wider world.
They will demonstrate and apply the British Values of Democracy, Tolerance, Mutual Respect, Rule of Law and Liberty to their daily lives. We enable them to have a healthy outlook towards school and an increased awareness of mental well-being. As a result, children will be able to achieve success across the wider curriculum.
They will be equipped with tools to maintain healthy and positive lifestyles with regard to relationships, diet and their own personal identity. As they become more confident throughout the areas of PSHE and progress in the related skills, children will understand their personal role in society. The most significant impact that we want for our pupils is the development of respect for themselves and others.
EYFS
Click here for the Reception Medium Term
SCARF Early Years supports the delivery of the EYFS framework (2021) and Development Matters (2020) guidance, particularly Personal Social, Emotional Development (PSED), and Communication and Language.
Its comprehensive plans form part of a spiral curriculum that provides the essential building blocks needed to meet the DfE's new Relationships Education and Health Education requirements.
The curriculum is broken down into six strands:
- Me and my relationships
- Valuing difference
- Keeping myself safe
- Rights and responsibilities
- Being my best
- Growing and changing
Children explore these strands year-on-year, building a toolkit of strategies and knowledge which they apply in scenario-based lessons, giving them the opportunity to ask questions and practise the skills in a safe and caring environment. The 'Coram Life' staff visit school annually and every child receives the chance to go in and learn about how to keep themselves safe, happy and healthy.
Click here for the long term plan
S is for Safety
C is for Caring
A is for Achievement
R is for Resilience
F is for Friendship
RSE
We use ‘Journey in Love’ in the summer term, during our ‘Relationship Week’, to support our Catholic values - this runs alongside our topic on ‘Growing and Changing’.
Here is our RSE policy. Here is the powerpoint presentation that we used to introduce the programme to parents when it was launched.
Here is further information about the RSE 'A Journey of Love' curriculum for parents. There is a parent's leaflet for each year group: