Our curriculum is based on Manchester Healthy Schools' iMatter scheme. The curriculum is separated into 5 distinct but related strands: Relationships, Keeping Safe, Healthy Lifestyles, Mental & Emotional Health and Living in the Wider World.
In EYFS, PSHE is taught through Personal, Social and Emotional Development and Understanding the World. The children will learn how to form positive relationships and they will develop in self-confidence and self-awareness. We teach the children how to manage their own behaviour, adjusting their behaviour to different situations and taking changes to routine in their stride. In Understanding the World, children learn about important members of society (i.e. police officers, nurses and firefighters) and through exposure to a broad selection of stories, non-fiction and pomes, they will foster an understanding of our culturally, socially and ecologically diverse world.
In Key Stage 1, children begin to identify different feelings and emotions and consider how their behaviour can impact on others. They discuss rules that keep them safe in familiar and unfamiliar environments and there is a strong focus on responsibility: our responsibility to keep ourselves and others safe and the importance of eating healthily and keeping clean. We consider the important relationships we have in our lives and we begin to learn about our right to privacy.
In Lower Key Stage 2, children continue to learn about managing their own feelings and how they impact on others. Within this, we discuss resilience and discrimination. We also begin to discuss bodily changes. We continue to learn about personal space whilst also considering what healthy relationships look like and how to recognise and tackle common stereotypes. In Healthy Lifestyles, we focus more on self-control, recognising harmful substances and understanding the harmful effects of smoke in the air.
In Upper Key Stage 2, we develop on prior learning in personal space and bodily changes by discussing unwanted touch and puberty. We learn about misleading body images, stereotyping, self-confidence and the positive and negative impacts the internet has on these. We learn about the links between mental and physical health, the harmful affects of drugs and how to manage peer pressure.
Our PSHE curriculum is complemented by our reading spine which runs from Reception to Year 6. These books celebrate the diversity in our school and wider community and showcase positive role models that all our pupils will be able to relate to.
Our curriculum overview, along with a brief summary of the content covered within each unit, is outlined below:
