PSHCE (Personal, Social, Health & Citizenship Education)
Intent
At Beech Hill our PSHCE teaching is central to ensuring that our pupils are well prepared for life, capable of managing risks, and developing the skills to thrive in their personal, social, and academic lives.
We want children to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy and safe, and prepared for life so that they develop: resilience, positive self-esteem, the ability to manage risk, effective team-working skills and critical thinking skills. We want our children to become confident, thoughtful, empathetic and connected.
Implementation
Our learning is framed within the following core themes: health, safety and wellbeing (including online safety): relationships (including relationships and sex education): and living in the wider world.
We have developed our PHSCE teaching around seven strands:
- physical health and wellbeing
- keeping safe and managing risk
- identity, society and equality
- drug, alcohol and tobacco education
- mental health and emotional wellbeing
- careers, financial capability and economic wellbeing
- relationships education
Our bespoke curriculum has been developed through blending the Islington Primary scheme of work with You, Me, PSHE. The online safety elements of PSHCE incorporate the scheme, Educated for a Connected World.
Through PSHCE teaching, pupils have the opportunity to discuss issues that are vitally important to their wellbeing. They acquire knowledge that helps them understand how to stay healthy and successful and they practise debate and conflict in safe, respectful ways. Pupils’ learning is beautifully showcased in our PSHCE presentation books. These books go with the children up to the next year group to allow their PSHCE journey to build on previous learning.
In addition, pupils’ PSHCE is supplemented with cross curricular links such as with Computing, Science and PE. Through all our teaching, we reinforce the need for pupils to respect each other’s ideas, contributions, diversity and efforts. Teaching pupils to debate, for example, allows for deeper learning to take place in other subjects such as History and Literacy.
We also use a range of complementary factors to interweave with and re-inforce teaching, such as:
- our 5B’s which foster children’s independence with their learning.
- assemblies.
- external visits, trips and wow factors.
- School Nurse visits.
- School council/ Prefects and pupil appropriate jobs and responsibilities.
- Well-being club (lunchtime) after-school sports, learning and social clubs.
- school sports visits and competitions with other schools across Luton.
Impact
We believe that a good PSHCE curriculum will deliver happy, confident, thoughtful children who can think for themselves, speak up for themselves and who show compassion for others and respect for their environment. This is undoubtedly true of our pupils, who we are extremely proud of.