PSHE Curriculum

PSHE at Westwood Farm

PSHE Lead: Mrs. Maggie Dutton

At Westwood Farm, children’s well-being, happiness and safety are our first priority, and PSHE is the key vehicle through which we share this with children. We regard PSHE as an important, integral component of the whole curriculum; it is central to our approach and at the core of our ethos, building from Personal, Social and Emotional Development in EYFS, through PSHE, including SMSC and Relationships and Sex Education in KS1 and KS2.

Our Personal, Social, Health and Economic education programme helps to give children the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives and to become informed, active, responsible citizens. We encourage our pupils to play a positive role in contributing to the life of the school and the wider community. In so doing we help develop their sense of self-worth.

We use Jigsaw which is a comprehensive whole school scheme that uses a mindful approach. The whole school focuses on the same theme each half term, but at differing, age-appropriate levels.

RSHE a guide for parents and carers leaflet

Jigsaw information leaflet for parents and carers

Jigsaw_Overview.pdf

Autumn 1	Being Me In My World
Autumn 2	Celebrating Difference
Spring 1	Dreams and Goals
Spring 2	Healthy Me
Summer 1	Relationships
Summer 2	Changing Me

British Values Promoting British Values at Westwood Farm Schools Federation

The Department for Education has reinforced the need for schools to ‘create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and the tolerance of those with different faith and beliefs’.

Our work on British Values is included in our PSHE work and also through our Assemblies. At Westwood Farm we value the diverse ethnic backgrounds of all pupils and families and undertake a variety of events and lessons to celebrate these. In addition to the themes developed through assemblies and in reaction to normal everyday events, our curriculum underpins and supports the promotion of traditional British values. Children and families regularly support and often initiate school involvement in raising awareness and money for charitable causes showing their values for people different to themselves.

Democracy

Democracy is demonstrated through various means. The pupils have the opportunity to have their voices heard through our School Council and Pupil questionnaires and interviews on a range of school related issues including the nature of the learning they receive. Children can choose to follow the electoral process to become a School Councillor - being elected to represent their peers.

In KS2, the children have participated in a UK Parliament Outreach program to increase their awareness of how they can be active citizens, both now and in the future.

The Rule of Law

The importance of laws underpins the daily life of the school. The children help to select class rules and fully understand and contribute to the school charter used within the school. Pupils are taught the reasons behind laws, that they govern and protect us, the responsibilities that this involves and the consequences when laws are broken. This process is demonstrated through the systems used in school which are frequently revisited in class and assemblies where they are linked to life in general. Visits from authorities such as the Police serve to reinforce this.

Individual Liberty

Within school pupils are actively encouraged to make choices, knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment. As a school we educate and provide boundaries for pupils within which they can make choices. Pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and are advised how to exercise these safely, for example through our e-safety work and within the PSHE curriculum. Whether it is through the choice of challenge, how they record their work, participation in our numerous extra-curricular clubs and opportunities - pupils are given freedom to make choices.

Mutual Respect

Our school ethos and behaviour policy has developed through the concept of mutual respect, and pupils have been part of discussions and assemblies related to what this means and how it is demonstrated in daily life.

Tolerance of Others Faith and Beliefs

This is achieved through enhancing pupils understanding of their place in a culturally diverse society and by giving them opportunities to experience such diversity. Assemblies and discussions involving prejudices and prejudice-based bullying have been further supported by learning in R.E and PSHE. Members of different faiths and religions are encouraged to share their knowledge to enhance the learning within classes. Through many means, (some of which are firmly established within the life of the school and others which are as a reaction to events in the world) our pupils learn to understand what it means to be British within their everchanging multi-cultural world.

As part of our Behaviour Policy, we teach all the children about the ‘Westwood Way’ and we try to ensure this is woven into our work on PSHE.

The Westwood Way;

Do be gentle

Do be kind and helpful

Do work hard

Do look after property

Do listen to people

Do be honest

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