PSHE

Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE)

At Colham Manor, our PSHE lessons teach us how to make informed choices and be enterprising and ambitious.

Through PSHE education, we focus on achieving our potential by supporting our wellbeing and tackling issues that can affect our ability to learn, such as anxiety and unhealthy relationships.

In PSHE, we learn the importance of a healthy lifestyle and positive relationships.

According to the Education Act 2002 and the Academies Act 2010, the PSHE curriculum should be a balanced and broadly-based curriculum which ‘promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society, and prepares pupils at the school for opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.’

Our Approach: 

We use a PSHE Programme (Dimensions: 3D PSHE) in which pupils develop the knowledge, skills and attributes needed in order to keep themselves healthy and safe whilst preparing them for life and work. As part of the safety element, the subjects of extremism and radicalisation, although not compulsory, are included in both KS1 and KS2.

There are three underlying core themes taught throughout Dimensions 3D PSHE, within which there is broad overlap, flexibility and progression:

1. Health and Wellbeing
2. Relationships
3. Living in the Wider World

The 3D PSHE Programme provides pupils with the means to handle many of the social, cultural, spiritual, physical and moral issues that occur throughout life.

3D PSHE helps pupils to develop and demonstrate skills and attitudes that will allow them to participate fully, and contribute positively, to life in modern Britain. Pupils learn to respect similarities and differences between our diverse cultures in order to build successful and meaningful friendships and relationships that are vital to the world in which we live.

Dimensions 3D PSHE supports the development of the attitudes, values, skills and behaviour which enable pupils to:

• Live healthy lifestyles
• Address personal hygiene
• Develop an awareness of changing and growing
• Deal with different emotions in an appropriate way
• Keep safe
• Communicate well with others and work as a team
• Define, identify and know how to respond to bullying
• Know where and how to seek help when needed
• Treat everybody with respect
• Form and build positive relationships
• Understand the reasons for rules, and their responsibility to keep them
• Learn about their responsibility in caring for others
• Be active in their own learning
• Be active within their community
• Manage money well
• Keep safe online
• Self-assess and identify their strengths and weaknesses
• Know how to make emergency calls
• Know basic First Aid
• Work collaboratively and respectfully
• Appreciate diversity
• Empathise with other points of view
• Express opinions clearly
• Understand the changes that occur in puberty
• Develop strategies for managing changing emotions

What Does PSHE Look Like?

PSHE is taught both discretely and through thematic units. The Satellite View maps out which thematic units feature this subject and clearly shows the objectives taught. Separate lessons are also planned in across each phase. PSHE lessons are 30 minutes long.

What do we learn in PSHE?

We learn about:-

Physical, emotional and mental health

Healthy lifestyles

Hygiene

Nutrition and food

Aspirations

Changing and growing

Emotions

Keeping Safe

First Aid

Similarities and differences

Healthy relationships

Discrimination

Communication

Collaboration

Bullying

Fairness

Family and friends

Rules and responsibilities

Communities

Money and finance

Diversity

Enterprise

PSHE is assessed in a variety of ways, these include:

• Self assessment
• Peer assessment, role plays, group reviews, circle time
• Informal and formal teacher assessment, observations, questioning, quizzes
• Dimensions curriculum provides access to Kahoot Quizzes which can be designed by class teachers to assess the children’s progress and understanding within an area of PSHE.
• Skills and progression ladders – These can be used to make more formal judgements on the children’s understanding within PSHE.

How Can I Support My Child's Learning?

PSHE supports pupils to realise their academic potential and enjoy their time in education. Problems such as unhealthy relationships (including between peers), anxiety, or issues related to online or personal safety will cause disruption to a child’s learning. PSHE addresses these issues, and empowers children to understand when they might need to access support. They also have the opportunity to learn more about finances, careers and the world of work, to better prepare them for life after school.

These aspects are not just learnt within the classroom however.  Good PSHE Education is a partnership between  home and school and there are lots of things you can do as a parent/carer to support your child’s journey.

Allowing your child to talk about PSHE topics at home can be a really good way for them to explore and contextualise some of the content. If you have time, research some of the areas you know are coming up in your child’s PSHE programme, and anticipate any awkward questions. Also, be honest if you can’t answer a question, you can’t be expected to know everything from first aid, to online safety but you can listen to your child and explore these areas further together.