LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT
Intent
Our PSHE curriculum aims to motivate and inspire children through an inclusive curriculum that engages and challenges all learners. This aims to meet pupils’ needs, preparing them for the challenges and opportunities of adult life. It is designed to enable children to express their emotions, needs and aspirations through a rich vocabulary. Our PSHE curriculum prepares our learners to become healthy, independent and responsible members of a diverse society. The curriculum we have designed supports the children at St Columba’s to tackle the many social, moral and cultural issues that are part of growing up. Children are encouraged to have a positive mental well-being and understand their self-worth in their role at home, school and in the wider community.
It is our aim to develop the ‘whole child’ by giving them opportunities to engage with meaningful experiences which our PSHE curriculum provides.
Implementation
Our PSHE curriculum has been shaped to ensure that all children have opportunities to form effective relationships that are an essential part of life and learning. PSHE is taught discreetly and within the wider curriculum.
PSHE is delivered every half term following the SCARF scheme of work. It is taught in five blocks: Me and My Relationships, Valuing Difference, Keeping Safe, Rights and Respect and Being My Best.
The statutory ‘Relationships, Sex and Health Education’ curriculum is effectively delivered by teaching staff through discrete PSHE lessons following the SCARF scheme and an RSE week which is delivered every year in Summer term using the Catholic scheme, ‘Life to the Full’. The Relationships, Sex and Health Education curriculum is also taught within other subject areas including Science, PE, Religious Education and Computing. Themed days and weeks are planned in areas such as online- safety and mental wellbeing to enhance our curriculum offer.
Our curriculum has been designed to include opportunities to link Fundamental British Values and Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) development, to prepare the children for life in Modern Britain. The children learn key vocabulary and develop a deep knowledge within the PSHE curriculum that can be applied across the wider curriculum. In doing so, they reflect on their own experiences and understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling many of the issues that are part of growing up as they develop into a reflective and responsible citizen.
Impact
Our well-planned PSHE curriculum ensures that children develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to navigate themselves through modern life and become positive role models and effective global citizens. Children will demonstrate and apply the British Values of Democracy, Tolerance, Mutual respect, Rule of law and Liberty. Our PSHE curriculum supports children to become well-rounded, confident and resilient learners who are well-equipped for the future.
