PSHE/RSE
(Personal, social, health education and relationships and sex education)
Intention
At Mill Hill we believe that:
- A high quality PSHCE education provides the foundations for understanding the world themselves and how to play an active role within it.
- PSHCE inspires children, developing their sense of self and community.
- PSHCE enables children to develop an essential range of life skills to enable them to become emotionally resilient citizens.
Implementation
Our PSHCE teaching follows the Jigsaw Scheme of learning which aligns with the North Yorkshire County Council’s framework including the DfE RSE and health education statutory learning.
Each year group covers six units a year:
- Being Me in My World
- Celebrating Difference
- Dreams and Goals
- Healthy Me
- Relationships
- Changing Me
Each unit builds on previous learning, with opportunities for pupils to reflect upon their personal progress. The PSHCE curriculum is delivered using a range of teaching and learning styles, including drama, discussion, group tasks, artwork and circle time. The scope of these units includes exploring the causes and types of bullying, strategies for coping with transition and change, understanding our emotions, body awareness and growing up, and road and water safety. E-safety is an integral part of some of these units as well as being covered through the ICT curriculum.
PSHCE is not only taught in regular discrete lessons, but also enriched and applied in many aspects of school life. These include opportunities for ‘Show and Tell’, weekly awards for ‘Star of the Week’ and ‘Thumbs up’. We tailor our teaching to also reflect the needs of our community in which our children live and what may be applicable to their lives at a particular time.
