PSHE at Reedings

Children at Reedings are encouraged to work as kind and empathetic human beings through a broad and memorable spiral curriculum which aims to build upon the prior years’ learning and provide children with the knowledge and skills to keep themselves happy, healthy and safe, as well as to prepare them for future life and work.

Our PSHE curriculum gives children the opportunity to:

• Embed the core values of Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience and Friendship
• Become healthy, independent and responsible members of society
• Equip children with the knowledge needed to make the best use of the internet and technology in a safe, considered and respectful way, so they are able to reap the benefits of the online world.
• Develop children’s character
• Encourage and promote positive behaviours, including growth mindset 
• Understand the importance of mental health and wellbeing 
• Celebrate achievements 
• Develop strategies to build resilience and become reflective 
• Understand what healthy relationships look like and how to navigate their personal lives in a positive, safe and healthy way.
• Promote equality and diversity

What Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education including Relationships Education, is:

The school’s PSHE provision supports the school’s aims of developing confident citizens and successful learners who are creative, resourceful and able to identify and solve problems. The social and emotional development of pupils is embedded throughout the entire school’s curriculum and culture. The school has a powerful combination of a planned thematic PSHE program, built around a spiral curriculum of recurring themes, designed to:

1. Give pupils the knowledge and develop the self-esteem, confidence and self-awareness to make informed choices and decisions;
2. Encourage and support the development of social skills and social awareness;
3. Enable pupils to make sense of their own personal and social experiences;
4. Promote responsible attitudes towards the maintenance of good physical and mental health, supported by a safe and healthy lifestyle;
5. Enable effective interpersonal relationships and develop a caring attitude towards others;
6. Encourage a caring attitude towards and responsibility for the environment;
7. Help our pupils understand and manage their feelings, build resilience and be independent, curious problem solvers;
8. Understand how society works and the laws, rights and responsibilities involved.

We know there is a proven link between pupils' health and wellbeing, and their academic progress. Crucial skills and positive attitudes developed through comprehensive Personal, Social, Health and Economic education are critical to ensuring children are effective learners.

How we teach PSHE education, including Relationships Education:

At Reedings Junior school we use SCARF (Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship), a comprehensive
scheme of work for PSHE and Wellbeing education. We chose to use SCARF as it covers all of the DfE's new statutory
requirements for Relationships Education and Health Education, including non-statutory Sex Education.

Learning Maps in PSHE are given to the children in lesson time and not uploaded to the school website due to age related content.

What is being taught:

The SCARF programme divides the year into 6 themed units. Each year group will cover all 6 units every year.

1. Me and My Relationships: includes content on feelings, emotions, conflict resolution and friendships;
2. Valuing Difference: a focus on respectful relationships and British values;
3. Keeping Myself Safe: looking at keeping ourselves healthy and safe
4. Rights and Responsibilities: learning about money, living the wider world and the environment;
5. Being My Best: developing skills in keeping healthy, developing a growth mindset (resilience), goal-setting and achievement;
6. Growing and Changing: finding out about the human body, the changes that take place from birth to old age and being safe. This is the unit where Sex Education is taught. RSE will be taught throughout the whole school during a dedicated week and parents will be informed when this week will be prior to it taking place.

Learning Maps

• Year 3 Learning Maps PSHE
• Year 4 Learning Maps PSHE
• Year 5 Learning Maps PSHE
• Year 6 Learning Maps PSHE

Sex Education

Sex Education is taught during the same week for each year group across the school. This week is during the Summer Term and is taught under the ‘Growing and Changing’ unit.

Year 3:

Example vocabulary list: Cervix, Egg, Fallopian tube, Ovary, Period/menstruation, Sperm, Sanitary towels, Tampons, Uterus/womb, Vagina, Urethra, Penis, Foreskin, Testicle, Bladder, Prostate, Scrotum.

Year 4:

Example vocabulary list (Building on previous year/s): Breasts, Clitoris, Genitals, Labia, Ovaries, Penis, Pubic hair, Sperm, Testicles, Vulva, Vagina, Womb, Menstrual Cup.

Year 5:

Example vocabulary list (Building on previous year/s): Anus, Balls, Bra, Cervix, Discharge, Erections, Foreskin, Masturbation, Outer and inner lips, Scrotum, Semen, Smegma, Urinary opening, Wet dreams.

Year 6:

Example vocabulary list (Building on previous year/s): Ejaculation, Fertilisation, Orgasm, Sexual intercourse – in a loving relationship to make a baby.

SCARF have suggested topics on: FGM (Female genital mutilation) and HIV, which we have chosen as a school not to cover. Instead, we be reiterating the NSPCC ‘PANTS’ message and covering how to keep clean and hygienic to avoid becoming unwell.