Personal, Social, Health & Economic Education (PSHE)

At Buckingham Park, we teach PSHE to all children so they can learn how to thrive as individuals and become healthy, independent and responsible members of society. Our objective is to enable children to acquire the knowledge, skills and attributes which will enable them to build their capacity for learning, access the wider curriculum and achieve their potential academically. We are committed to developing children’s self-esteem and their sense of self worth so they are emotionally healthy and prepared for life and work. We aim for all our children to understand how to be safe and develop healthy relationships both now and in their future lives.

Pupils not only acquire the appropriate age related knowledge linked to the PSHE curriculum, but to develop their sense of self-worth needed to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society.

What do we teach?

The Kapow Primary scheme is a whole school approach that consists of three areas of learning in EYFS: Reception (to match the EYFS Personal, Social and Emotional Development Prime Areas)

self-regulation
Building relationships
Managing self

and five areas of learning across Key Stages 1 and 2:

Families and relationships
Health and wellbeing
Safety and the changing body
Citizenship
Economic well-being

Each area is revisited to allow children to build upon their prior learning. The lessons also provide a progressive programme.

The lessons are based upon the statutory requirements for Relationships and Health Education, but Kapow’s lessons also go beyond these requirements (primarily in the Citizenship and Economic wellbeing areas) they refer to the PSHE Association Programme of study which is recommended by the DfE.

Sex education has been included in line with the DfE recommendations and is covered in Year 6 of our curriculum plans.

What will this look like?

Children not only acquire the appropriate age related knowledge linked to the PSHE curriculum, they also develop their sense of self-worth needed to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society.

We expect our children to:

develop positive and healthy relationships with their peers now and in the future;
demonstrate a sense of belonging, welcoming others and being part of a school community, a wider community and a global community;
celebrate similarities and differences such as diversity, disability and friendship;
have respect for themselves and others;
recognise and apply the British values of democracy, tolerance, the rule of law, individual liberty, and the tolerance, acceptance and understanding of those with different faiths and beliefs
demonstrate perseverance to overcome challenges, manage their emotions and share aspirations and personal strengths;
build a capacity for learning across all curriculum areas as well as their everyday lives;
be emotionally and physically healthy promoting good relationships with food, managing stress and body image;
keep themselves safe in and out of school;
deal with changes of many types, from growing young to old to becoming a teenager.