PSHRE- Personal, Social, Health & Relationships Education (including SMSC & British Values)

How is PSHRE taught and what does it look like at Mayfield? (Implementation)

Mayfield offers high quality, evidence based and age-appropriate teaching of PSHRE, thus preparing our children for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences their life will bring. The curriculum is designed to develop knowledge and skills that are progressive, as well as transferable, throughout their time at Mayfield Primary and also into their further education and beyond.

• Using a consistent approach across all the year groups, children will acquire key skills that not only supports them when learning about PSHRE, but also holistically through the entire curriculum. We want children to have high aspirations and be able to take control of their own destinies. We believe that by giving our children the right tools, and the opportunity to explore and challenge a range of values, attitudes, beliefs, rights and responsibilities, they can go on to achieve great things.

• At Mayfield, PSHRE in KS1 and KS2 is taught through the PSHE Association Programme of study and Twinkl Life, a PSHRE scheme of work that is fully compliant with the 2019 Statutory Guidance on Relationships and Health Education, alongside related resources. This is a comprehensive programme including Statutory Relationships and Health education based in a spiral, progressive and fully planned scheme of work giving children relevant learning experiences to help them navigate their world and develop positive relationships with themselves and others. Biological aspects of RSE are also taught through the science curriculum, and other aspects of RSE are included in Religious Education. Our approach ensures depth, accurate subject knowledge, detailed planning and building on prior learning.

• Our PSHRE curriculum is underpinned by a teaching and learning approach that incorporates three key fundamental core strands which follow the statutory guidance; Health and Wellbeing, Relationships and Living in the Wider World. These elements intertwine and overlap to support pupils to be healthy, sociable, safe and prepared for modern life. Our PSHRE and RSE curriculum incorporates health education, relationships education/RSE and economic wellbeing and careers. The PSHRE curriculum covers all aspects of statutory PSHRE knowledge. It is designed to integrate topics both vertically (looking at consistent aspects of PSHRE in each year group) and horizontally (building continuous knowledge and skills throughout a Year group). Each year group covers PSHRE themes that are built on, year on year, allowing for a well-rounded and immersive curriculum.

• At Mayfield we teach one theme, each half term, so each theme is covered twice in each year group. Each year group studies the same three themes within the school year, this builds sequentially facilitating whole school learning themes and a spiral curriculum to develop knowledge, skills and attributes, where prior learning is revisited, reinforced and extended year on year. The teaching of PSHRE is planned explicitly within each year group, so that children learn more, remember more and understand more.

• We use our curriculum structure of ‘Engage’, ‘Develop’, ‘Innovate’, and ‘Express’ to structure each topic.  ‘Engage’ provides a ‘Thinking question’ to elicit what children know. The ‘Development’ phase focuses on new learning. ‘Innovate’ gives our children the chance to use case studies to apply their new learning in real life situations. Finally, during ‘Express’ children are given the chance to revisit their thinking question to show what they have learnt.