PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education)

A guide to Health and Wellbeing at St Bede's School.

Our whole school PSHE scheme of work is called SCARF. SCARF is a progressive PSHE and Wellbeing programme. 

Safety

Caring

Achievement

Resilience

Friendship

SCARF also ensures RSE ‘relationship education,’ internet safety, staying safe online, safeguarding, mindfulness and British values are taught to our children.

PSHE Curriculum

Whole school themes

S-safety     Autumn 1

C-caring  Autumn 2

A-achievement    Summer 1

R-resilience     Spring 2 

F-friendship   Spring 1

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Transitioning   Summer 2

 St. Bede's School records all PSHE work onto their class Seesaw app and into class sketch books which is an effective way of collecting and displaying the work that the children cover in our PSHE curriculum. Our sketch books can also be used with the children in lessons as a resource. These books include photographs, data collection, written group work, illustrations and collected resources.

Keep your eyes open for regular updates from our new PSHE programme and examples of work covered in termly topics for each class.

Intent

Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) Education at St Bede’s is a subject through which pupils develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to manage their lives, now and in the future. These skills and attributes help pupils to stay

healthy, safe and prepare them for life and work in modern Britain.

The Government’s statutory safeguarding guidance for schools: Keeping children safe in education; statutory guidance for schools and colleges states that:

‘Governing bodies and proprietors should ensure children are taught about safeguarding, including online, through teaching and learning opportunities, as part of providing a broad and balanced curriculum. This may include covering relevant issues through personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), through sex and relationship education (SRE).’

Aims:

• To provide a curriculum that is broadly based and balanced and which meets the needs of all pupils

• To make good provision for personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) for our children, drawing on good practice.

• To promote the spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and society, and prepare pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life

 Implementation

We focus on the Every Child Matters outcomes and promote our pupils’ wellbeing. Our teaching assistants are trained in Relax Kids, we provide our children will sessions from Therapeutic treehouse and mindfulness meditation.

Our PSHE education provides learning opportunities and experiences that deal with the real life issues children and young people face as they grow up.

Our annual Life Education Bus covers the following topics:

My body, feelings, meet the brain, it’s great to be me, decision making and friendships

Our PSHE framework ‘SCARF’ ensures our teaching is coherent and cohesive throughout school from Nursery to Year 6. We will begin to use Get set 4 PE which covers wellbeing, active minds, healthy lifestyles in parallel to our framework to broaden our teaching of all aspects in PSHE, some of which are covered through workshops and parent/child workshops.

Our class PSHE sketchbooks ensure that PSHE learning is not based upon a child’s ability to write answers to questions but includes getting our children involved in decision making, discussions, debates, practical/hands on activities, handling resources and welcoming and communicating with visitors who are invited into school.

We have termly themes throughout school they are;

S-safety     Autumn 1

C-caring   Autumn 2

A-achievement   Summer 1

R-resilience     Spring 2 

F-friendship   Spring 1 

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Transitioning- Summer 2 

Our progressive PSHE scheme of work identifies links to British Values and helps develop a ‘Growth Mindset.’ We continue to help build resilience, independence and confidence in our pupils. We create an environment where pupils can embrace challenge, foster a love of learning and increase their level of happiness.

We have a successful School Council that provides our young people with a forum to discuss their opinions and thoughts. It allows students to have a voice that is proactive in promoting positive change within the school. Our school council is split into sub-committees these include e-safety monitors and health and safety auditors. This is added responsibility for our school councils reps. Students that join the school council enjoy being part of the decision making process. It gives them a sense of responsibility and pride in their school, this also complies for our yearly recruitment of playground buddies.

St Bede's R.C. School is now 'SugarSmart.'  This helps bring awareness to the effects of sugar to our health. Each class has termly lessons on Sugar Smart provided by sugarsmartorg.uk. These lessons are fun, enjoyable, educational and thought provoking. Our Early Years are now part of the Smile 4 Life programme which encourages children to brush their teeth daily with fluoride toothpaste. We firstly send out consent forms to parents before we begin the programme. Throughout the year children will be given homework challenges, certificates. leaflets about healthy diets and toothbrush packs to take home and use. Our Early Years will be monitored in using the programme and evidence collected to ensure we achieve set goals and rewards. 

At St Bede’s RC Primary School we have created a positive behavioural rewards system called ‘Good to be Green’ that is practiced from Reception up to Year 6. Good to be Green gives our pupils a voice to choose their own class rewards termly and to take accountability for their actions. All class teachers adhere to the same policy to allow consistency and every class keeps their class contract displayed, visible for all pupils to see.

Our assessment in PSHE is sequenced and engages opportunities for reflection. Our assessments stray away from quizzes that assess facts. We assess attitudes of confidence, self respect, respect for others, managing risk and dealing with real life scenarios.

Impact

-Children will achieve their academic potential, and leave school equipped with skills

they will need throughout later life;

-Children will grow in their self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence.

- To be able to understand and manage their emotions. To look after their mental health and well-being.

- Children will appreciate difference and diversity

-Our children will to distinguish right from wrong and to respect the civil and criminal law of England. Recognise and apply the British values of Democracy, Tolerance, Mutual respect, Rule of law and Liberty.

-Children will take responsibility for their behaviour, show initiative, and to understand how they can contribute positively to the lives of those living and working in the locality of the school and to society more widely.

St Bede's R.C. School is now 'SugarSmart.' 

PhunkyFoods.

PhunkyFoods is a programme that parents and carers can access at home to teach their children key healthy eating & physical activity messages through art, drama, music, play and hands-on food experience.

Please have a look by visiting the website below:

www.phunkyfoods.com

School Council

For more information on latest school council news please click on 'School Council' located in the 'Our School' tab above.

Playground Leaders

 For pictures and more information on our playground leaders please click on 'Playground Leaders' located in the 'Our School'tab above.

Key Stage 2 children have been trained by Vanessa Foster to become independent and enthusiastic playground leaders. Their training has enabled them to lead younger pupils in structured, fun games at playtimes that they are planning and organising themselves. The playground leaders have been taught skills such as;

• communication
• fair play
• organisation of groups/teams
• STEP principle (space, task, equipment, people) 
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We hope that this project will have positive impacts with behaviour at playtimes because children will be actively engaged in activity, the leader's confidence and self esteem and the relationships amongst year groups in our school.

See our pupils training pack here...

Children will be rewarded with certificates throughout the school year dependent on their hours of successful playground leader duties.

Playground leaders will have their own resource box with a range of sports equipment. We have used our Sainsbury's Sports for Schools vouchers in order to replace some of our old sports equipment. We are continuing to collect Sainsbury's vouchers.