PSHE/RSE
Intent:
At Charles Warren Academy we aim to give children the knowledge, skills and attitudes that they need to effectively navigate the complexities of life in the 21st Century. The curriculum covers key areas which will support children to make informed choices now and in the future around their health, safety, wellbeing, relationships, and financial matters and will support them in becoming confident individuals and active members of society.
We use Kapow Primary’s RSE/PSHE scheme of work, which covers the Relationships and Health Education statutory guidance (as set out by the Department for Education), including the non-statutory sex education.
The scheme also covers wider PSHE learning, in line with the requirement of the National Curriculum that schools ‘should make provision for personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE)’.
Children’s learning through this scheme significantly contributes to their personal development as set out in the Ofsted Inspection Framework and promotes the four fundamental British Values which reflect life in modern Britain: democracy; rule of law; respect and tolerance and individual liberty.
Quality PSHE and RSE teaching helps us to carry out our duty of care with regards to safeguarding. The DfE’s statutory ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ guidance states that ‘Governing bodies and proprietors should ensure that children are taught about safeguarding, including online safety. Schools should consider this as part of providing a broad and balanced curriculum’.
Implementation:
We use the Kapow Primary scheme which is a whole school approach that consists of five areas of learning: families and relationships, health and wellbeing, safety and the changing body, citizenship, economic wellbeing.
Each area is revisited every year to allow children to build on their prior learning. The lessons also provide a progressive programme.
The lessons are based upon the statutory requirements for Relationships and Health education, but where our lessons go beyond these requirements (primarily in the Citizenship and Economic wellbeing areas) they refer to the PSHE Association’s Programme of Study which is recommended by the DfE.
Sex education has been included in line with the DfE recommendations and is covered in Year 6 of our scheme.
The scheme supports the requirements of the Equality Act through direct teaching, for example learning about different families, the negative effects of stereotypes and celebrating differences, in addition to the inclusion of diverse teaching resources throughout the lessons.
A range of teaching and learning activities are used and are based on good practise in teaching RSE/PSHE education to ensure that all children can access learning and make progress. In each year group, an introductory lesson provides the opportunity for children and teachers to negotiate ground rules for the lessons. These introductory lessons can then be referred to throughout the year to help create a safe environment. All lessons include ideas for differentiation to stretch the most able learners and give additional support to those who may need it. Many lessons, stories, scenarios, and video clips provide the opportunity for children to engage in real life and current topics in a safe and structured way. Role-play activities are also included to help children play out scenarios that they may find themselves in.
There are meaningful opportunities for cross-curricular learning, in particular with Computing for online safety and Science for growing, nutrition, teeth, diet and lifestyle. The scheme provides consistent messages throughout the age ranges including how and where to access help.
The role of parents and carers is recognised, and guidance is provided to assist us on how to work with them and include them in their children’s learning.
In addition to the lessons, there is a suite of Q&A videos for teachers, featuring experts from various fields, covering the key areas: Families, Friendship, Healthy and safe relationships, Digital safety and the Changing adolescent body.
Impact:
Each lesson within Kapow Primary’s scheme features assessment guidance, helping teachers to identify whether pupils have met, exceeded, or failed to meet the desired learning intentions for that lesson.
Each unit of lessons comes with an Assessment quiz and Knowledge catcher. The quiz contains 10 questions, nine of which are multiple-choice and can be used either at the end of the unit or at both the start and end to help measure progress and identify any gaps in learning. The Knowledge catchers list some of the lesson titles in mind-map or table format and can be used at the start of a unit to see what the children already know and to inform planning, and then pupils can visit the same version of the Knowledge catcher at the end of the unit to add what else they now know, further demonstrating their progression in learning.
Once taught the full scheme, children will have met the objectives set out within the Relationships and Heath Education statutory guidance and can utilise their learning within their daily lives, from dealing with friendship issues to resilience to making healthy choices and knowing where and how to get help when needed.
RSE Letter to parents.docxApril-2023-Parental-slides-RSE- (2).pdfM_RSE-Kapow-Primary-Parents-Guide-unknown_2020.pdfRSE-Presentation-for-Parents.pdfParent workshop.pptxParent consultation questions for PSHE and RSHE.docx