PSHE, including RSE & No Outsiders
"PSHE education helps pupils prepare for all the opportunities, challenges, life decisions and responsibilities they'll face."
PSHE Association
At St James, we have the highest academic ambition for all children, and the curriculum is designed to equip pupils with the knowledge and cultural capital needed to succeed. Our PSHE and RSE curriculum promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school. It prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life. The PSHE curriculum complements wider policies on behaviour, inclusion, safeguarding, respect for diversity and equality.
At St James CE Primary School, we teach personal, social, health education (PSHE) as a whole-school approach to underpin children’s development as young people and because we believe that this also supports their learning capacity.
In Key Stages 1 & 2, 'Kapow' offers us a comprehensive, carefully thought-through scheme of work which brings consistency and progression to our children’s learning in this vital curriculum area. This also supports the “Personal Development” and “Behaviour and Attitudes” aspects required under the Ofsted Inspection Framework, as well as significantly contributing to the school’s safeguarding and equality duties, the government’s British values agenda and the SMSC (spiritual, moral, social, cultural) development opportunities provided for our children.
Our Programme of Study sets out learning opportunities for key stages 1 & 2, based on core themes:
Families & Relationships
Health & wellbeing
Safety & Changing Bodies
Citizenship
Economic Wellbeing
Through our Early Years, 'Think Equal' develops children's emotional intelligence, empathy and self-regulation from the earliest stages of education, providing a strong foundation for personal, social and emotional development.
As pupils progress through the school, Pol-Ed enhances safeguarding education through learning about personal safety, healthy relationships, online safety and making positive choices, while No Outsiders promotes equality, diversity, inclusion and respect for all. Together, these programmes strengthen the statutory curriculum, reflect the school's Christian vision and values, and ensure pupils receive a rich, relevant and ambitious PSHE and RSE education that prepares them to flourish as safe, confident, compassionate and responsible citizens.
Here, at St James, we value PSHE and RSE as one way to support children’s development as human beings, to enable them to understand and respect who they are, to empower them with a voice and to equip them for life and learning. The focus in school is on teaching the characteristics of good physical health and mental well-being. Teachers are clear that mental well-being is part of normal daily life in the same way as physical health.
At St James, we use Kapow's scheme of work. Please see samples of the scheme below.
For more information, please contact our PSHE & RSE lead, Mrs J Finch via the school office.
At St James CE Primary Academy, we follow guidance from the Government on how to teach British Values. No Outsiders is part of our Personal, Social, Health and Emotional (PSHE) curriculum and enhances our teaching on relationships as part of our PSHE curriculum.
It is taught through a series of picture books addressing the different areas of the Equality Act. This part of the curriculum links to British Values and Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural learning (SMSC).
As this is part of the school curriculum, every child takes part. No Outsiders supports quality teaching and learning. It challenges stereotypes and the use of derogatory language in lessons and around school.
No Outsiders strategies reflect and value the diversity of pupils’ experiences and provide pupils with a comprehensive understanding of people and communities beyond their immediate experience.
How we will achieve this ethos?
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Shared voice and language
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Weekly assemblies
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Half termly lessons - linked to literature
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Displays
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Praise and sanction
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All stakeholders buy-in
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High profile
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Books and other literature which celebrate diversity in our library and classrooms which can be taken home.
Why is this ethos so important?
Our children leave us destined for the workplace, for a role in modern Britain. We want our children to champion inclusion and celebrate diversity. To feel that they never are an outsider and to welcome all that they meet. We believe that no one is born to hate - it is learnt - we need to teach another lesson to spread love and show love.
For an overview of 'No Outsiders', please watch this video: