PSHE

Intent Statement

At Barlby Bridge Community Primary School, our children’s care is of utmost importance. Enabling them to develop their resilience, skills and knowledge to be able to safeguard themselves is a priority. Therefore, our goal is to ensure that every child leaves Barlby Bridge with a ‘rucksack’ full of skills they have been able to rehearse and explore safely and the confidence to make their own knowledge-based choices to be able to manage risks and say ‘no’ when needed. All our PHSE topics are taught in line with our equality, diversity and inclusion policies and children are not only taught about British Values but these are embedded within our ethos and modelled daily throughout all aspects of our school. Our PSHE curriculum builds on and works with children’s parents and carers to support their children to become mature, confident young adults who are able to use strategies to monitor and support their own resilience, emotional well-being and mental health through mindfulness philosophy and practice in the often busy, stressful modern society our world is today.

The main aspects of our PSHE studies will be determined by a scheme called JIGSAW. Many additions to the scheme to support the needs of our children at BBS have been made. Each topic covered is carefully revisited regularly through pupil voice with staff and children paying particular attention to what our children told us in the ‘Growing up in North Yorkshire Survey’, looking at safety in our local area and any developing areas of concern both in school and the community.