PSHE & RSE

Noel Park’s combined PSHE and RSE curriculum places a strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing physical and mental health so that our children can become healthy, secure, independent and responsible members of society. We aim to equip our children with relevant and meaningful content that provides awareness of health, relationships, wellbeing and economic matters which arise on a personal, local, national and international level. With an ever changing society, we are able to provide our children with a strong understanding of the diverse world around them and support them in playing a positive and meaningful role in contributing to the life of the school and the wider community.  In doing so, this helps to develop their sense of self-worth and confidence, empowering them to influence and engage with those around them.

RSE teaching is incorporated into our PSHE long term planning, allowing for closely matched skills, knowledge and understanding to be taught together. RSE is delivered in a manner that is wholly appropriate for the child’s stage and age and follows the statutory requirements set out in the National Curriculum. Our RSE curriculum allows children to be able to build and maintain positive relationships and explore attitudes, values and skills that will empower them to make positive decisions about their own health and wellbeing, now and in the future. 

PSHE is taught weekly as a whole class, discussion based lesson. Across the school, our themes of Family and Relationships, Health and Wellbeing, Safety, Citizenship and Economic Wellbeing are taught in every year group over the course of the year. The curriculum map illustrates how each of these strands progresses throughout each key stage as pupils grow and mature. Our programme aims to offer a broad and balanced range of learning opportunities which allow pupils to foster independence, respect, resilience and open mindedness. Links to these themes are developed through key stage and whole school assemblies and are underpinned by our values and everything we do at Noel Park. 

EEDI is embedded throughout our curriculum, with a dedicated lesson at the start of each unit of PSHE to further develop a culture of embracing and celebrating our differences and similarities.