At Hodge Clough, personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education is an embedded part of our broad and balanced curriculum. Pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development is at the heart of our school ethos. We aim for our children to be healthy in body and mind, be resilient and responsible and ultimately confident members of society. We support them to understand how they are developing personally and socially. It is our intent to provide our children with opportunities for them to fully engage and learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of the diverse society in which we live, and to respect others as equals. We want to enable our children to make an active contribution to the wider community by helping them to manage their physical and emotional changes at puberty and equip them for life in our ever-changing world. We are aware of the way that PSHE supports many of the principles of safeguarding and links closely to schools Safeguarding and British Values Policies. Through the PSHE curriculum we recognise our duty to ‘actively promote’ and provide opportunity for children to understand the fundamental British Values (Democracy, The Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect and Tolerance) first set out by the Government in the ‘Prevent’ strategy in 2014, for those with different faiths and beliefs in order for them to become fair, tolerant, respectful and confident adults in a forever challenging world.

 

 

The Scheme of work Jigsaw; used across school from 3-11, includes opportunities to link British Values, SMSC and other relevant campaigns such as E-safety and Anti-bullying/racism.  Classes create displays about their PSHE lessons and a large Class book is kept to record learning.

At Hodge Clough we deliver the PSHE curriculum by utilising first-hand experience and sharing good practice. However, we are aware that the delivered curriculum must reflect the needs of our pupils. We expect teachers to use a PSHE programme (Jigsaw) to equip pupils with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions. We believe that the purpose of PSHE education is to build, where appropriate, on the statutory guidance outlined in the Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education.

We believe that PSHE plays a vital part of primary education and as well as discrete focused lessons, it is also embedded throughout the curriculum. PSHE is integral to the development of children’s values in order for them to become a positive citizen in a forever changing community. PSHE is an important part of school assemblies were children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural curiosity is stimulated, challenged and nurtured. We also participate in national events e.g. anti-bullying week, Children in Need, Mental Health Days, Comic Relief, Macillan, NSPCC and charity days. 

 

 

Our children will demonstrate a healthy outlook towards school and aspirations for the future. Our delivery of PSHE will also impact on our children’s behaviour socially in the playground and as learners in the classroom. Through our RSE curriculum children will become confident individuals who have positive body awareness, an in-depth knowledge of how to keep themselves safe and healthy and who will, through, respect, tolerance and understanding, forge and maintain positive relationships with a diverse range of family and friendship groups. They will grow up to be positive attributes to society

 

	PSHE.RSE Policy 2024-25	[docx 147KB]
	jigsaw-information-leaflet-for-parents-and-carers-2022	[pdf 474KB]