Our vision statement reflects our desire to provide the best possible education, opportunities and environment for all who are part of our school. We believe that our school should be an inclusive community where ALL aim high, achieve well and develop self-confidence, positive values and beliefs, a sense of community, well-being and caring attitudes towards others. PSHE is central to this ethos and equips children with the knowledge, skills and strategies to live healthy, safe and responsible lives.
- To follow a PSHE curriculum which develops learning and results in the acquisition of knowledge and skills which enables children to access the wider curriculum and to prepare children to be a global citizen now and in their future roles within a global community.
- To follow a curriculum with appropriate subject knowledge, skills and understanding to fulfil the new PSHE three strands health and wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world. Relationship and Sex Education will be taught in line with the DFE scheme of work.
- Children will have accurate and relevant knowledge of PSHE. Children will have opportunities to create personal understanding. Children will be given the opportunities to explore and challenge a range of values, attitudes, beliefs, rights and responsibilities.
- Children will develop a range of skills and strategies to live a healthy, safe, fulfilling, responsible and balanced life.
At Eaton Valley the school curriculum will focus on three core learning themes: health and wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world.
- The Scheme of work (Happy Minds and Healthy Me) also includes opportunities to link British Values, Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) and the schools’ key skills into the curriculum.
- Children have access to key knowledge, language and meanings in order to understand PSHE and to use across the wider curriculum, evidence folders in each classroom exemplify the terminology used throughout the teaching of PSHE, British Values and SMSC which enables pupils to make links across the wider curriculum.
- Whole school, Key Stage and class assemblies make a link to PSHE, British Values and SMSC.
- PSHE will be embedded throughout all school life as a continuous on-going development for all children in all areas of learning.
- All staff will use thoughtful questioning that encourages deeper thinking and reasoning.
- External Stimuli is encouraged and children from nursery through to Year 6 are taught about sameness and difference through our international days, themed days, topics, visitors, trips and assemblies.
At the end of each year, pupils have developed their skills, and have gained a new understanding of issues and how to keep themselves healthy, aware and happy. We measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:
- Monitoring and assessment is an on-going process. Teachers use ‘assessment for learning’ as to inform planning for future lessons.
- Evidence in skills: Pupils use acquired vocabulary and social skills through their experiences. It may be that there is an increase in positive behaviour or a decrease in negative attitudes following experiences and learning.
- Evidence in knowledge: Pupils know how and why it is important to learn about ourselves, others and the world around us.
- Interviewing the pupils about their learning (pupil voice). Through discussion and feedback, children talk enthusiastically about their PSHE lessons and other learning experiences to do with SMSC (e.g. themed days). Children across the school articulate well about the benefits of learning about themselves, others and the world around them.
- Images and videos of the children’s practical learning.
- Teachers plan a range of opportunities to use SMSC skills and discussion, inside and outside school.
- Moderation staff meetings where pupil’s books are scrutinised and there is the opportunity for a dialogue between teachers to understand their class’s work.
- Marking and assessing of written work in evidence folders.
- Class and whole school displays
- Children will demonstrate and apply the British Values of Democracy, Tolerance, Mutual respect, Rule of law and Liberty.
- Children will demonstrate a healthy outlook towards school – attendance will be in-line with national and behaviour will be good.
- Children will achieve age related expectations across the wider curriculum.