Personal, Social & Health Education

"Challenge, Explore, Flourish, Together"

At Bickleigh Primary School, personal, social and health education (PSHE) enables our children to be healthy, active, safe and responsible members of local and global communities. We aim to help our children to understand how they are developing personally and socially, how they are developing relationships with their peers, and we tackle many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. We provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. Our children are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community through lessons, assemblies and through their contribution to pupil voice opportunities. We have a real focus on the importance and impact of decision-making and provide opportunities to role play and reflect on the decisions of both ourselves and others in real life scenarios.

Bickleigh Primary School has an embedded Primary PHSE scheme of work called One Decision which is used from the EYFS to Year 6. Teachers use this programme to equip pupils with a sound understanding of risk and the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions.

Our offer covers eight key curriculum areas which pupils build upon each year:

• Keeping and staying safe
• Keeping and staying healthy
• Relationships
• Being responsible
• Feelings and emotions
• Computer safety
• Money matters
• A world without judgement

The distribution of the PSHE areas covered also links with key whole school focuses throughout the year such as Anti-Bullying Week and an Internet Safety Day. 

A decision-making approach is also applied through the use of posed problems during circle times, scaffolded peer discussions, role play activities and adult and peer modelling. Curriculum coverage is also adapted as and when issues arise in the classroom so that children can apply new skills in current contexts.

PSHE is an important part of our whole school and class assemblies where children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural curiosity is stimulated, challenged and nurtured. These regularly focus on wider community and national events and provide opportunities to reflect on British values.