PSHEE policy document can be found on the School Policies page.
Relationships Education Parent Information
What is PSHE education?
PSHE Education stands for Personal, Social, Health and Economic education.
‘Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHEE) is an important and necessary part of all pupils’ education. All school should teach PSHEE during on good practice.’ Department for Education, September 2013
PSHEE is currently a non-statutory subject. However, section 2.5 of the national curriculum states that all state schools ‘should make provision for personal, social, health and economic education (PSHEE)’. Following further guidance from the Department for Education, schools are now required to include information about their PSHE education provision when publishing their curriculum. Our SMITH six core areas which all aims are taught are: Being Me in My World, Celebrating Difference, Dreams and Goals, Healthy Me, Relationships and Changing Me. These themes also include British Values (BV), citizenship, economic wellbeing and aspects of careers education.
The Relationships and Health and Wellbeing sections of PSHEE education is compulsory in primary schools, with plans to also make the remaining parts of the PSHEE curriculum statutory following further government consultation.
PSHEE at St Michael in the Hamlet
At St Michael in the Hamlet Primary School we aim to promote healthy, independent and responsible members of society. We encourage all our pupils to play a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community through school councils, fundraising events, supporting nominated charities and involvement in community activities. Our pupils are given opportunities in PSHEE lessons and assemblies to develop confidence, self-motivation and an understanding of their rights and responsibilities within our diverse society.
We teach PSHEE in a variety of ways: through weekly PSHEE lessons, as a discrete subject, via assemblies and through other subjects such as RE, History, Geography, Literacy, Maths and Science, as well as through outdoor educational visits, community work and activities.
Family Learning Events
Our PSHEE Family Learning events have been a huge success! We’ve had sessions where our children and their families managed different budgets for party planning, but also dealt with some life problems along the way. We’ve also had mindfulness and massage sessions to look after our mental health as well as our physical health.
Scheme of Work
At St Michael in the Hamlet we follow a scheme of work provided by Jigsaw. Jigsaw is set out as six core units, with each unit earning the class the next piece of the Jigsaw. Jigsaw is a comprehensive framework of study, consisting of six core units – one per half term – and six key lessons within each unit. The core units are revisited again in each year group, allowing children to consolidate and build on from prior knowledge taught in the previous year groups. They will explore the underlying principles of PSHE education regularly at a depth that is appropriate for the age and stage of the child. Lessons also signpost key words, building a rich vocabulary to develop understanding.
Jigsaw’s PSHE units are designed to be delivered in a creative manner, using many approaches such as role play, discussion, and games with groups of various sizes. They focus on children tuning in and connecting to each other. These activities also enable children to build confidence and resilience.
Across the wider curriculum we strive to ensure all subjects make a link to PSHEE, British Values, Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural education and the language is used consistently by all staff. Whole school, Key Stage and class assemblies always make a link to PSHE, British Values and SMSC. Additionally, the children have many opportunities to interact with visitors and workshops with various PSHE focuses throughout the year, including school nurses to appropriate year groups. Finally, at St Michael in the Hamlet we pride ourselves on the wide range of groups we provide for our children which support their needs and development over the course of the school year.
PSHE has six strands in our school – Being Me in My World, Celebrating Difference, Dreams and Goals, Healthy Me, Relationships and Changing Me.
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