Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) & Relationships and Sex Education
Subject Leads
Infants - Mr Riccio
Juniors - Mrs Golding
Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) and Relationships and Sex Education
Subjects Intentions Statement - Children have confidence in who they are and how to interact with school life and the wider world positively and safely.
These two titles form the basis for the personal and pastoral aspects of the school, emerging primarily from the Religious Education curriculum. Much of this learning however, takes place beyond the curriculum.
“Personal, social, health education (PSHE) help to give pupils the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives and to become informed, active, responsible citizens” The National Curriculum
PSHE is taught both discretely and integrated with other subjects. The school council discusses matters of interest with the elected pupils who convey the agenda and decisions to the rest of the children in the class through Class Council.
Relationship education lays its emphasis loving relationships, through the teaching alongside Ten Ten Life to the Full curriculum. Parents are consulted and given the opportunity to watch the video before these are shown to prior children and we accept that they have a right to withdraw their children from seeing in discussion with the school, parents have the option to withdraw their child the video and subsequent follow-up sessions. Through Ten Tens Life to the Full curriculum this introduces learning The programme of Education to all from Nursery to Year 6 on the recommendation of the Education Commission.
Access the PSHE (and RSE) National Curriculum links here:
Primary PSHE National Curriculum/docs/imported/St-Marys-Catholic-Federation-Carshalton/-i1.pdf