PSHE

At Lavender, we want our pupils to grow into determined, caring and responsible young people who are able to recognise and tackle the challenges the world around them may present. We love hearing feedback from our secondary feeder schools where they are able to tell those who started their journey in education with us due to the values, morals and behaviours that they display. 

The way we ensure that this happens for every one of our pupils, is through a robust curriculum that is tailored to our own school community. For this reason, our Families, Friendships and Respectful Relationships content of our PSHE curriculum is planned by our class teachers with the guidance of our PSHE lead to ensure that every pupil is being represented and all family makeups are being explored. Alongside this, we use a framework and resource bank from the PSHE Association who support us in our Health and Prevention and Being Safe units, as well as wider world learning areas. The Association signposts us as a school to a variety of accredited resources where teachers are able to plan, teach and assess lessons confidently with the tools they need. Finally, in the Spring and Summer terms respectively, we look at Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco followed by a changing adolescent body unit known as Our Bodies. These are all taught from a scheme named The Christopher Winters Project where ‘In Reception we focus on families and friendships. From Year 1, children will learn the names of the body parts, the differences between males and females and the ways in which they will develop and grow. Importantly, they will also learn to recognise unsafe and risky situations and to ask for help. The curriculum continues to develop their knowledge and skills as they learn about the physical and emotional changes of puberty and about reproduction.’ (The Christopher Winters Project Ltd). These particular units are monitored closely by our staff and safeguarding teams to ensure that we are teaching children content that is both appropriate and suitable for their own individual needs and background.

The impact of our PSHE curriculum should be evident in everything that we do as a school; the way our children behave, the values they display and the way in which they treat one another. Pupils should feel well equipped in how to maintain positive mental health and make sense of the world around them. They will know that we celebrate our differences and believe in both themselves as individuals and in the values and beliefs that they have shared with one another.