PSHE
PSHE, or personal, social, and health education, is a planned programme of learning through which children and young people acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to manage their lives.
As part of a whole school approach, PSHE develops the qualities and attributes pupils need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society. It prepares our children to manage many of the most critical opportunities, challenges and responsibilities they will face growing up in such rapidly changing and challenging times. It also helps them to connect and apply the knowledge and understanding they learn in all subjects to practical, real-life situations while helping them to feel safe and secure enough to fulfil their academic potential.
At All Saints Church school we are fully committed to promoting British Values in line with recent DfE recommendations and the requirements of the Equality Act 2010 to keep children safe and prepare them for life in modern Britain. We promote fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. We do this through our relationships with the children, our relationships with each other, our RE curriculum, our PSHE curriculum and throughout the school day.
To support the teaching of PSHE we use the Coram Life Education Scarf programme .
What does SCARF stand for? SCARF is an acronym to help children contextualise their learning into five strands; Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship.
SCARF is a fully-resourced, comprehensive PSHE programme – it is online and therefore always up to date, fulfilling all DfE statutory requirements for Relationships & Health Education.
How do we teach PSHE at All Saints?
The SCARF programme of study is fully in line with the learning outcomes and core themes of the PSHE Association scheme of work. It covers all the required objectives and follows the three core areas of; Health and Wellbeing, Relationships, and Living in the Wider World. It also fulfils the requirements of the Statutory Relationship and Health Education which enables all pupils to build good, safe and healthy relationships now and in their future lives.
What will my child be learning about in PSHE and RSE? Children will learn the statutory information from the National Curriculum during PSHE lessons. Parents will be able to request that their child is withdrawn from lessons about sex education, which are not statutory objectives in the science national curriculum. Please speak to your child’s Class Teacher, should you need to ask about or discuss the content of the programme.
Our PSHE roadmap shows the themes of PSHE and how they progress and build upon each other as children move through our school.
Useful further reading for families:
The following hyperlinks share more information about mental health and well-being for families at home.
Special Events and Visitors
As part of our SCARF provision, visitors from Coram come to All Saints to deliver specialist workshops annually for each class. Children have found these sessions both engaging and interesting, for the relevant age groups!
Jesus says, “All things are possible if you believe.”