How we learn PSHE

Personal, Social and Emotional and Health (PSHE) education is woven through our whole curriculum and underpins our approach to teaching. We know that our children learn best when they are confident and happy. We work as a whole school team to develop our children as resilient learners, and therefore PSHE is taught weekly and discretely in all classes as well as an approach to developing our children social and emotional well-being throughout the school day. Understanding the emotional development and needs of our children drives our approach to promoting positive behaviours.

Using a combination of KAPOW PSHE and Catholic Social teaching, we will support the development of the skills, attitudes, values and behaviour, which enable pupils to:

• Have a sense of purpose and an understanding of the role we play in our own communities (including the internet community) and as global citizens including exploring British Values such as democracy, the systems of civil and criminal law and the importance of identifying and combatting discrimination

• Recognise the importance of valuing ourselves and others, including learning about and accepting differences in beliefs, backgrounds and family choices.

• Explore their own potential and understand the barriers they may face and strategies that may help them to succeed at realising their own goals and targets

• Make and act on informed decisions to encourage a healthy lifestyle

• Form and develop healthy relationships and equip learners with strategies to communicate effectively and manage conflict.

• Recognise the physical and emotional changes that occur as they approach different life stages such as puberty or transition to their next stages of learning

We ensure that children understand what bullying behaviour is and that it is unacceptable in our school community.  This is explored particularly in-depth during Ant-Bullying Week in November each year. However, the message is reiterated throughout the year. The following link gives more information about the themes of Anti-Bullying Week as well as advice, tools and activities for parents and carers.