PSHE at The Priory
At The Priory, we recognise that the development of Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) plays a significant part in pupils’ ability to learn and achieve.
With this in mind, we aim to provide opportunities for our pupils to explore and develop their own personal values, beliefs, high standards of behaviour and respect for others throughout all aspects of school life.
PSHE intent and implementation link
Lessons
Pupils engage in weekly, one-hour PSHE lessons which support them in developing the knowledge, skills and personal attributes needed to build positive, respectful relationships and strategies to support their own wellbeing.
At The Priory, we follow a whole-school approach to the teaching of PSHE using the Kapow Primary PSHE and RSE scheme of work (see overview and progression documents linked below).
Lessons are tailored to the specific needs of each cohort, supporting children to be ambitious and reach their full potential in the present, whilst helping them feel prepared for life in the future through the development of key life skills.
Throughout our PSHE lessons at The Priory, we aim for all children to feel represented through inclusive teaching that reflects and celebrates our diverse community.
Curriculum
Through the Kapow Primary scheme, pupils explore a broad and balanced PSHE curriculum across the year, revisiting key themes to deepen understanding and build skills progressively from Reception to Year 6.
The curriculum is organised into key strands including:
- Families and Relationships
- Health and Wellbeing
- Safety and the Changing Body
- Citizenship
- Economic Wellbeing
- Identity and Personal Development
Topics are age-appropriate, sequential and progressive, allowing children to build on prior knowledge and develop confidence and understanding year by year.
Each class keeps an evidence scrapbook displaying a range of work, pupil voice and photographs that celebrate learning and participation from all children.
progression of knowledge and skills map docx.pdf
Themed Days
Throughout the year, we hold themed days that develop children’s personal, social, emotional and healthand economic education, including: PANTS Awareness, Anti-bullying, Children’s Mental Health Awareness, Wellbeing days as well as days to support various charities and causes.
Zones of Regulation
Interwoven throughout our PSHE and wider curriculum is Zones of Regulation.
The programme is aimed at supporting pupils in recognising their emotions and identifying what ‘zone’ they are in, as well as teaching themstrategies to support them in self-regulating if they are dysregulated, for example by experiencing feelings of anxiousness, excitedness or anger.
Pupils are also taught to recognise the emotional state or ‘zone’ of others.
By teaching pupils these skills, it is hoped that pupils in turn navigate their way through challenges positively, and build their resilience in the face of difficulty.
RSE (Relationships and Sex Education)
In order to prepare our pupils for adolescence and beyond, children at The Priory receive age-appropriatelearning about relationships and growing up as part of the PSHE curriculum, with specific teaching taking place during the Summer Term.
Lessons include learning about:
- Healthy relationships
- Changes during puberty
- Stages of the human life cycle
- How a baby is conceived and born
Elements relating to puberty and human development form part of the statutory Science National Curriculum.
Parents have the right to request that their child be withdrawn from some or all non-statutory sex education delivered as part of Relationships and Sex Education (DfE Guidance, 2019, p.17).
Please see our PSHEPolicy (linked below) for further information about withdrawal procedures and access to the opt-out form. The policy also includes an overview showing how our curriculum meets statutory Relationships and Health Education requirements.
