Statement of Intent

Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) enables children to become healthy, independent, and responsible members of society. It aims to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, and tackles many of the moral, social, and cultural issues that are part of growing up. We provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. Our children are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community. The intent of PSHE is also to provide a starting point for our children to develop their oracy skills. This is in the hope of children becoming more confident and competent in their ability to express and explain their opinions regarding school, local and global matters.

PSHE is taught as a golden thread, which forms part of a whole school ethos aimed at providing children with essential life skills and knowledge to enable them to make informed decisions and choices and become healthy, confident, respectful and responsible citizens, now and in the future. Pupils learn to recognise their own worth, gain an understanding of the personal choices of others, have an awareness of British values, and become increasingly responsible for their own learning by taking part in a wide range of activities and experiences across and beyond the curriculum, contributing fully to the life of the school and their community.

Intent of RSE

We commit to running a comprehensive Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) programme. Our relationships education is taught both explicitly in RSE lessons as well as implicitly throughout our annual PSHE programme. We also teach Sex education lessons to ensure that children understand their bodies and how they will change so they can act appropriately in respecting others as well as having the knowledge to safeguard themselves from potential exploitation.

Through our RSE curriculum we hope to impact children by:

• Giving them the technical vocabulary associated with their body parts.
• Giving them the knowledge to safeguard themselves from exploitation.
• A clear understanding of how their bodies will change throughout puberty.
• Ability to understand positive and negative relationships.
• The ability to seek help should ever need to do so.
• Understanding of the PANTS rule.