Curriculum
Personal, Social, Health and Economy
Curriculum intent, implementation, and impact
Intent
Our values, “belong, respect, inspire, succeed and enjoy” lie at the very heart of our curriculum at Hadley Learning Community Primary School. We pride ourselves on creating a nurturing learning environment in which every child, including those with SEND and EAL, is encouraged to develop their full potential and where their achievements and successes are celebrated and rewarded. We encourage all our children to be unique, positive and mindful individuals.
HLC’s PSHE curriculum aims to equip children with the essential skills for success in life in our ever-changing world. As a school, we recognise that all children are unique individuals and therefore we aim to encourage mutual respect, responsibility and foster self-esteem in a happy and caring environment. Personal, Social, Health Education provides pupils the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives and to become informed, active, responsible citizens. The themes and topics support social, moral, spiritual, and cultural development and provide our children with protective teaching on essential safeguarding issues. In our ever changing technical world we fully equip our children with knowledge and understanding of all technology in order to keep themselves safe both on and off line.
As a school, we aim to enrich the lives of our children by providing them with the skills and opportunities to apply their learning within and beyond the curriculum. PSHE underpins our school ethos and is delivered as a rolling program from Early Years to Year 6.
Through PSHE, we believe we can enhance children’s education and help them become caring, tolerant, respectful and confident individuals. We provide them with the knowledge and skills to be respectful of themselves and others, valuing the differences and similarities between people.
Implementation
At HLC, we recognise that all children are unique individuals and through our values we aim to encourage mutual respect, a sense of belonging, for all children to succeed in their learning. We follow the statutory guidance and the PSHE framework. Our curriculum is based on the JIGSAW scheme as a basis for our PSHE teaching and learning. JIGSAW is a comprehensive program for Primary PSHE including statutory Relationships and Health Education. Teaching and learning is taught in a spiral, progressive and fully planned scheme of work, giving children relevant learning experiences to help them navigate their world and to develop positive relationships with themselves and others. Learning tasks are planned according to the levels and needs of the children. All adults in school are excellent role models to our children, creating a safe environment where children can succeed in developing their own individuality. We offer a safe space to talk and support the children to articulate their thoughts and feelings using new and relevant vocabulary.
Our curriculum is split into 6 core themes. The theme is taught across the school at the same time. Whole school assemblies link to the key themes.
- Being Me In My World
- Celebrating Differences
- Goals and Dreams
- Healthy Me
- Changing Me
- Relationships
The aims of PSHE education within HLC are to provide children with:
- accurate and relevant knowledge
- opportunities to create personal understanding
- opportunities to explore and challenge a range of values, attitudes, beliefs, rights and responsibilities
- a range of skills and strategies to live a healthy, safe, fulfilling, responsible and balanced life.
PSHE deals with the diverse beliefs, values and attitudes that individuals, our community and wider societies hold. Staff support pupils to develop themselves, their understanding of the world, and their ability to communicate and discuss their feelings.
Impact
We measure the impact our PSHE curriculum by:
- Gaining pupil voice before and after learning to highlight children’s under-standing of key topics covered within the curriculum.
- Summative assessment of pupil discussions about their learning.
- Images and videos of the children’s practical learning.
- RAG rating on our actions plans
- Staff questionnaires to influence curriculum adaptations and support where needed.
- Examples of students work to show their understanding of PSHE curriculum.
By the time children leave our school:
- All children will be confident individuals with a clear understanding of their own emotions and self esteem
- All children will be on their way to becoming heathy, open minded, respect-ful, socially responsible, active members of society
- Children will be excepting and appreciative of difference and diversity
- Children will be able to look after their own mental health and wellbeing
- All children will be able to recognise and apply the British Values of Democ-racy, Tolerance, Mutual respect, Rule of law and Liberty.
- All children will feel able to ask for help and support when needed.
