PSHRE

PSHRE is a planned programme of study that supports and enhances the learning and development of children and young people. The programme allows children to acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to manage their lives, now and in the future. PSHRE prepares our children to manage many of the critical situations and opportunities they will face while growing up. It will help them to learn to respect themselves and others, and move with confidence from childhood through adolescence into adulthood. They learn how to deal with life challenges, face difficulties head-on and with resilience and become responsible for their own actions and behaviour in a challenging and rapidly changing time. PSHRE helps children to apply the knowledge and understanding learned in all subjects to practical, real-life situations while helping them feel safe and secure enough to fulfil their academic potential.

At St Luke’s RC Primary School we want all children to successfully develop the qualities, skills and attributes they need to thrive as happy, well-rounded individuals, family members and members of society. We encourage our children to be true LUKIES, upholding the LUKIES values of being Loving, Unique, Kind, Inclusive, Empathetic and Striving. This links to our school mission to be Christ’s Disciples here on Earth, to do the best that we can do and be the best that we can be. We believe that everyone deserves to be happy and free from discrimination and bullying. Therefore, anti-bullying, well-being and online safety activities are embedded and developed across the curriculum. Teachers plan activities to promote diversity and equality.

At St Luke’s Catholic Primary School we support the children’s Personal, Social, Health and Relationships education through the diocesan approved TenTen Life to the Full Plus scheme of work. The entire teaching is underpinned with a Christian faith, understanding that our deepest identity is as a child of God- created, chosen and loved by God. The name TenTen comes from the scripture passage John 10:10- ‘I have come that they might have life and have it to the full.’

The programme is taught with a spiral approach to learning in which all pupils will revisit the same topics at an age-appropriate stage throughout their school life. It includes teaching about personal health, physical and emotional well-being, strong emotions, private parts of the body, personal relationships, family structures, trusted adults, growing bodies, puberty, periods, life cycles, the dangers of social media, where babies come from, an understanding of the Common Good and living in the wider world.

The Life to the Full Plus programme is based on the structure of ‘A Model Catholic RSE Curriculum’ by the Catholic Education Service. This model curriculum was highlighted as a work of good practise by the Department of Education. It includes a parent platform so that parents and carers can engage with the teaching and deepen the experience for our children.

In Life to the Full Plus we follow a four-stage structure which is repeated across four different learning stages:

Early Years Foundation Stage is aimed at Preschool and Reception

Key Stage One is aimed at Years 1 and 2

Lower Key Stage Two is aimed at Years 3 and 4

Upper Key Stage Two is aimed at Years 5 and 6

Within each learning stage there are three modules which are based on the Model Catholic RSE Curriculum:

Created and Loved by God
Created to Love Others
Created to Live in Community

Each module is then broken down into units of work. Within each unit there are a number of planned sessions which are led in the classroom.

At our school, we model positive relationships and communication skills with others in our day to day interactions, as well as teaching skills explicitly in PSHRE lessons. We allocate one lesson of approximately 45 minutes to one hour to PSHRE each week in order to teach the knowledge and skills in a developmental and age appropriate way. The lessons are taught by the class teacher or another substantive member of staff.

These explicit lessons are reinforced and enhanced in many ways:

• Assemblies, collective worship and celebration of the word
• Praise and reward systems
• Through relationships child to child, adult to child and adult to adult across the school
• Trips out and visitors to school
• Our LUKIES values

We aim to live what is learnt and apply it to everyday situations in the school community.

For more information about what is taught and how, please see attached documents.

Children and staff will record the children’s work in PSHRE in their journals and on Seesaw. We see the impact of the programme mainly through the behaviours, attitudes and responses of the pupils within school and in the wider world, and through their relationships with each other. Each Life to the Full unit of work also has an assessment activity associated with it which takes into account the learning objectives of the sessions within the unit.