Bleak Hill Primary School
PSHE
Hello, our names are Mrs Davison and Mrs McLaughlin and we are the PSHE Leads at Bleak Hill Primary School.
Our PSHE lessons play a crucial role in equipping our children with the knowledge, understanding, and skills necessary to effectively manage their lives, both in the present and for the future. We recognise the importance of the children developing the qualities essential for them to thrive as individuals, family members, and contributing members of society. Although our PSHE curriculum draws on the foundations of the National Curriculum, we have adopted the Jigsaw scheme to guide our PSHE lessons. This scheme provides our school with a structured curriculum map and a progression plan encompassing six key themes that are designed to foster the qualities and attributes needed for well-being.
Our PSHE lessons are typically scheduled once a week for a minimum of 45 minutes in each class. Teachers follow the Jigsaw scheme, which offers weekly lessons featuring clearly defined learning activities, all centred around six main themes or ‘Puzzles’: "Being Me in My World," "Celebrating Differences," "Dreams & Goals," "Healthy Me," "Relationships," and "Changing Me." Each theme is explored over a half-term period, and these engaging lessons include dedicated time for reflection, meditation, and relaxation to support the overall well-being of our children.
Our PSHE lessons effectively integrate the mandatory components of Relationships and Health Education, emotional literacy, mindfulness, social skills, and spiritual development.
Weekly, across the whole school we use the Picture in the News to enhance our PSHE curriculum. These pictures provide opportunities for our children to explore their learning through inspirational news stories. Picture News exposes our children to a diverse array of contemporary issues, spanning politics, religion, culture, environment, society, morals, and spirituality. This comprehensive exposure helps make concepts like British Values more relevant and meaningful to them, establishing connections between personal, school, and community values. By engaging in discussions and debates around topics they genuinely care about, our children are given the opportunity to demonstrate respect and tolerance which helps to instil our Bleak Hill Values and British Values.
If you would like to speak to us about the PSHE curriculum at our school, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Please take a look at out vision, intent, implementation & impact. You will also find documents relating to our curriculum below!
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| Bleak Hill is a nurturing environment in which each child is encouraged to reach their full potential. As a family we celebrate each child’s uniqueness. As a school, we believe that children are all individuals and therefore, we aim to encourage mutual respect, responsibility and foster self-esteem in a happy and caring atmosphere. The teaching and learning of PSHE supports and upholds this vision. PSHE deals with the diverse beliefs, values and attitudes that individuals and societies hold. They help pupils to develop themselves, their understanding of the world, and their ability to communicate their feelings. PSHE helps children to acquire British values and attitudes which are necessary if they are to make sense of their experiences within school and life itself, value themselves, respect others, appreciate differences and diversity and feel confident and informed as a British citizen. Our vision is for every children to feel enabled to reflect on and clarify their own values, attitudes and feelings by having the opportunity to explore a range of values and attitudes they encounter in their lives and in their future lives. |
Our intention is that when children leave Bleak Hill, they will do so with the knowledge, understanding and emotions to be able to play an active, positive and successful role in today’s diverse society. We want our children to have high aspirations, a belief in themselves and realise that anything is possible if they put their mind to it. In an ever–changing world, it is important that they are aware, to an appropriate level, of different factors which will affect their world and that they learn how to deal with these so that they have good mental health and well-being. Our PSHE curriculum develops learning and results in the acquisition of knowledge and skills which will enable children to access the wider curriculum and prepare them to be a global citizen now and in their future roles within a global community. It promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils, preparing them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences for later life. Our Relationships, Health and Sex Education enables our children to learn how to be safe, and to understand and develop healthy relationships, both now and in their future lives. |
EYFS - In the Foundation Stage, PSHE and citizenship is taught as an integral part of topic work and is embedded throughout the curriculum. The objectives taught are the Personal, Social and Emotional Development statements from ‘Development Matters in the EYFS’ and the PSED Early Learning Goals. Reception also uses the Jigsaw Scheme of Work materials. (see below) Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 - At Key Stage 1 and 2, PSHE is taught through a clear and comprehensive scheme of work in line with the National Curriculum. We ensure we cover the Health and Well-Being, Relationships and Living in the Wider World Learning Opportunities. Pupils are taught PSHE using ‘Jigsaw’ which is a spiral, progressive scheme of work, which 'aims to prepare children for life, helping them to know and value who they are and understand how they relate to other people in this ever-changing world’. There is a strong emphasis on emotional Literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health. It includes mindfulness to allow children to advance their emotional awareness, concentration and focus. At Bleak Hill, in addition to Relationships Education, we also teach aspects of Sex Education that is covered in our Science Curriculum. Alongside this we teach about different kinds of relationships, including same sex relationships, and gender identity because it is important that our children should have an understanding of the full diversity of the world they live in and be prepared for life in modern Britain. The Sex Education aspects of PSHE are also taught through the ‘Jigsaw’. |
By the time our children leave our school they will:
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Wider Curriculum
- We believe that focusing on developing a 'Growth Mindset' in our children will help them to build resilience, independence and confidence; embrace challenge; foster a love of learning; and increase their level of happiness. We do this through the language we use in class, praising children for their efforts, and using language to encourage children to change their way of thinking. This supports both our school and PSHE aims and values, and we focus on Growth Mindsets in all aspects of school life.
- PSHE, including SMSC (social, moral, spiritual and cultural) and BV (British Values), is an integral part of the whole school curriculum, and is therefore often taught within another subject area.
- Visitors such as emergency services and the school nurse complement our PSHE curriculum to offer additional learning.
- We encourage our pupils to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community. We challenge all of our pupils to look for opportunities to show the school values of faith, hope and love.
- Assemblies are linked to PSHE, British Values and SMSC and cover any additional sessions that would benefit the whole school.
- PSHE, British Values, Bleak Hill Values and SMSC displays throughout school reinforce the PSHE curriculum enabling children to make links.