PSHE stands for Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education. This school subject is where pupils develop their knowledge, skills, and characteristics that they need to manage their lives now and in the future. These skills and characteristics will help pupils to stay healthy and safe, whilst also preparing them for life and work in modern Britain. PSHE will aim to help pupils understand how they develop both personally and socially, whilst tackling many of the Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) issues that are a part of growing up.

It is through PSHE that your child will learn about bullying, Citizenship, drugs education, careers, mental and emotional health, well-being and relationships and sex education (RSE).

At Daylesford , we tailor our PSHE programme to reflect the needs of our pupils. We adopt a sequenced, spiralled program/model of delivery, that builds on prior learning as pupils progress through school.

A Spiral curriculum is where learning is designed to reflect a spiral of expanding knowledge and skills. In this approach, children revisit key knowledge, understanding and skills in different contexts throughout their current year group and across the whole school curriculum with increasing difficulty and challenge. The main advantage of using a spiral-based  and enquiry based  learning curriculum is that it continues to expose the pupils to a wide variety of disciplines, topics/concepts until they master it by reviewing it repeatedly

At Daylesford our PSHE programme of study will also aim to develop your child’s skills and attributes such as resilience, self-esteem, risk management, working as part of a team and critical thinking.

PSHE education continues to play an important role for learners with SEND, rehearsing and embedding the practical skills and understanding they need to lead independent and fulfilling lives and enjoy safe and healthy relationships.

PSHE lessons provide an inclusive environment where learners have the opportunity to explore and reflect upon issues that affect them and can develop strategies and skills to manage different real-life situations.

 The topics covered within PSHE cover the three core themes: Health and well-being, living in the wider world and relationships. Within these three core themes are the following topics:

 

At Daylesford, pupils currently receive one 50 minute lesson per week and two 20 minute tutorials during form time a week. There is also a vast array of PSHE workshops and awareness days organized throughout the academic year.

This includes workshops with Umbrella and Relationship Rabbits who will deliver additional Relationships and sex education sessions.

PSHE is taught safely and effectively. Teachers create a safe learning environment to encourage students to take part in discussions around complex and sensitive issues.  A safe learning environment helps students share feelings, explore values and attitudes, express opinions and consider those of others without attracting negative feedback

Establishing a safe, open and positive learning environment based on trusting relationships between all members of the class, and teacher, is vital. To enable this, it is important that ‘ground rules’ are agreed and owned at the beginning of the year and are reinforced in every lesson

Our PSHE education programme  equips pupils with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions.

PSHE work is marked within the context of the learning objectives set for the lesson or activity.

Teachers make formative assessments on the pupils’ progress and achievements in PSHE through their weekly evaluations and our PSHE assessment tracker. PSHE at Daylesford Is captured and recorded in floor books. The list below indicates some of the ways we teach/ use activities to demonstrate progress at the end of the lesson or series of lessons.

I can statements

Core questioning

Discussion

Pupil Surveys

Mind maps

Questionnaires/Quizzes

Videos, Documentaries and responding to scenarios