PSHE

Personal, Social and Health Education

At South Hill Primary School, we pride ourselves on caring for our pupils' wellbeing and helping them to become positive, well-rounded and active citizens of the future. We believe in the importance of equality and everybody having the same opportunities. This is modelled by our staff and taught through lessons and other experiences both discretely and explicitly; we are working hard to create a school culture in which children, staff and the whole school community work together to foster an environment of inclusivity through effective spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) and character education. Our PSHE curriculum forms an important part of our provision in order to achieve these goals.

Our PSHE curriculum promotes and reinforces:

British Values
Protected characteristics
Our school values –

‘The South Hill Way’

Mental health and wellbeing
Online safety
Personal Development

Our PSHE Curriculum is split into three main areas:

PSHE Progression

Autumn Term

No Outsider

This scheme promotes:

British Values
Protected characteristics
Personal development

Spring term (and used in assemblies all year round)

Picture News

This scheme promotes:

British Values
Protected characteristics
Personal development

Summer Term

The Christopher Winter Project

This scheme promotes:

Relationship education
Health education
Drugs education
Sex education
Online safety

Examples of Knowledge Organisers

EYFS

Year 2

‘No Outsiders’

We follow the ‘No Outsiders’ project which is a book based PSHE scheme created by Andrew Moffat MBE, who was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize in 2018-19. Each week, the children read a book with their class teacher, which promotes British values and the following three core values:

Respect for diversity through education in schools;
Commitment to community cohesion through
understanding and acceptance of difference;
Promotion of dialogue to counter fear and hate in society.

We believe that it is vital that our pupils can discuss inappropriate and discriminative language and understand how to address boundaries in order to prepare them for a future in modern Britain.

We strive to ensure that our pupils are surrounded by a consistent message:

· There are no outsiders here;

· Everyone is different;

· We like being different;

· We are all equal in our difference;

· I can get along with you even if we are different;

· We live in the U.K., our British values support

this and the law says this too.

Picture News

Picture news is a current affairs news scheme, which gives children opportunities to develop learning further through news stories that inspire them. The weekly theme (which is delivered in every Monday assembly) exposes pupils to a range of topics including political, religious, cultural, environmental, social, moral and spiritual issues. Pupils then have the opportunity to discuss these ‘big issues’ with their class teacher. In the Spring term, we use these as a basis for our PSHE lessons so that they can be explored more in depth class.

Through this scheme, children have opportunities to:

Discover talents and interests through a broad coverage
Develop speaking and listening skills
Develop the confidence to speak out
Develop resilience
Understand British Values and Protected Characteristics
Develop links between personal, school and

community values.

Demonstrate respect and tolerance

The Christopher Winter Project

We follow the 'Christopher Winter Project' for our Relationships, Drug and Sex Education' provision and we have produced a range of 'Knowledge Organisers' to ensure parents know what their children will be taught in 'RSE' in each year group. RSE, at South Hill, includes the following elements (which are outlined in our Topic progression and Overview documents):

Relationship Education (RSE) - this primarily focuses on teaching the fundamental building

blocks of positive relationships to ensure pupils know what a healthy relationship looks like;

where they are valued and where equality exists and to also ensure all families and individuals

are 'represented' and 'seen'.

Health Education - this focuses on understanding how to keep our bodies healthy and what

it means to have a healthy lifestyle to ensure children can be healthy adults and make good choices

now and in the future.

Drugs Education - this teaches children the facts about legal and illegal harmful substances

and the associated risks, including smoking, alcohol use and drug-taking.

Sex Education - this is taught to our oldest children in Year 6 and will teach conception and

the physical act of sex.

Other Subjects

Other elements of our PSHE programme are taught through subjects such as: Science (human body and reproduction); Computing (internet safety) and PE (importance of keeping healthy) as well as teaching using opportunities throughout the school day to reinforce key concepts.