We are a fully subscribed Jigsaw school who receive regular updates to our curriculum to ensure it meets national statutory requirements.
Through PSHE the children are learning how to best take care of themselves in terms of their well-being in order to be happy, healthy and to thrive in the best possible way.
What is PSHE Education?
PSHE Education (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education) is a planned programme of learning through which children and young people acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to successfully manage their lives – now and in the future. As part of a whole-school approach, PSHE Education develops the qualities and attributes pupils need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society.
What do schools have to teach in PSHE Education?
According to the National Curriculum, every school needs to have a broad and balanced curriculum that:
- promotes the spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school;
- prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life;
- promotes British values.
From September 2020, primary schools in England also need to teach Relationships and Health Education as compulsory subjects and the Department for Education strongly recommends this should also include age-appropriate Sex Education.
Schools also have statutory responsibilities to safeguard their pupils (Keeping Children Safe in Education, DfE, 2024) and to uphold the Equality Act (2010).
The Jigsaw Programme supports all.
Intent
At Stockbridge Village Primary School, our aim is to deliver a PSHE scheme that enables children to develop a good sense of themselves and people around them. Our intent is to provide them with the tools they will need to handle a multitude of different situations.
Through our PSHE teaching we enable our children to become independent, healthy and responsible members of society. Through our PSHE teachings it will help children become aware of how they are developing personally and how this might affect their emotions. Our intent is to make them aware of cultural, moral and social issues that might surround them as they grow up and give them the tools, they may need to handle these issues in a responsible and respectful manner. Through our PSHE teachings children will learn about their own rights and responsibilities that they have and how to develop their ideas and beliefs in order to play a positive role in contributing to their wider community. Our intent is to provide children with the opportunities to explore their own self-worth and how they can be instrumental in building a positive school life and a positive community.
Implementation
Our school has chosen to deliver PSHE through the scheme ‘Jigsaw’. This scheme of work begins in the Early Years and goes right up to Year 6 in where all children are learning the same topic at the same time but tailored to their needs at an age-appropriate level. Each year their previous knowledge is built upon and developed.
The scheme is split into 6 ‘puzzles’
- Being me in my own world
- Celebrating differences
- Dreams and goals
- Healthy me
- Relationships
- Changing me
Each ‘puzzle’ tackles different issues that children may face personally, socially or economically as well as how and why their health is important.
At Stockbridge Village Primary, we value the importance of the lessons PSHE teaches and is therefore taught weekly. Also, when opportunity arises for cross-curricular links or if a particular issue is raised in a class extra PSHE will be taught.
Impact
Through PSHE our children are developing a deeper understanding of themselves, their self-worth and how they can impact others and society for the better. PSHE education helps pupils to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to thrive. They learn about their own personal responsibilities they have to themselves and their families as well as responsibility they have to positively affect the society, they live in.
Our children are learning to develop respect; respect for themselves and others. Learning that everybody is different and that is okay, everyone has their own strengths that have a positive impact. They will also learn about the changes they may face in terms of RSE and give them the knowledge and tools to help them face these changes.
Through PSHE the children are learning how to best take care of themselves in terms of their well-being in order to be happy, healthy and to thrive in the best possible way.
As an inclusive school, we strive to ensure that all pupils are able to access a broad and balanced PSHE curriculum offer. Pupils with SEND are supported within lessons to ensure that a ceiling is not put on their learning. This is achieved through regular retrieval activities, over learning of vocabulary and different ways of recording evidence of learning. Where adaptations are necessary, these are planned carefully by the teacher to ensure that each pupil has rigour within their curriculum.
