PSHE

“Be proud of yourself, be confident, be optimistic and most of all be happy.”

Anurag Prakash Ray

Subject Coordinator: Mrs Catherine Bell

External Links: S. Huggins (Personal Development Matters)

SHEADS PSHE network

Vision and INtent

At Cheadle Primary School, we teach Personal, Social, Health Education as a whole-school approach to underpin children’s development as people and because we believe that this also supports their learning capacity.

The Jigsaw Programme offers us a comprehensive, carefully thought-through Scheme of Work which brings consistency and progression to our children’s learning in this vital curriculum area.

The overview of the programme can be seen below.

This also supports the “Personal Development” and “Behaviour and Attitude” aspects required under the Ofsted Inspection Framework, as well as significantly contributing to the school’s Safeguarding and Equality Duties, the Government’s British Values agenda and the SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social, Cultural) development opportunities provided for our children.

Jigsaw-PSHE-overview April 2024.pdf

PSHE Coordinator

My name is Mrs Bell and I am the PSHE co-ordinator at Cheadle Primary School. My role is to ensure that the teaching and learning of PSHE in our school is relevant, engaging and adaptable to meet the changing needs and priorities of our pupils, community and society.

I believe that it is crucial that our pupils at Cheadle Primary School are respectful, empathetic and tolerant of current issues within today’s world and society. With this in mind, at Cheadle Primary School we ensure that teachers provide a safe and stimulating environment that promote these attitudes within their PSHE lessons and beyond. Our schools ‘RESPECT’ values echo this message and through our PSHE curriculum, we develop a good understanding of what each value means and what it looks like in action, both around the school and in society.

For me, PSHE lessons are vital in supporting pupils to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to keep themselves safe and healthy. They are also imperative in helping children to develop an awareness of their own thoughts and feelings and how to manage and regulate these. In order to make sure our PSHE lessons achieve this and meet the needs of every child, we have introduced a new PSHE scheme called Jigsaw.

Curriculum and implementation

We include the statutory Relationships and Health Education within our whole – school PSHE Programme. The aspects are mainly covered in the ‘Relationships’ and ‘Healthy Me’ puzzle units, but they are enhanced and revisited throughout the whole Jigsaw programme.

To ensure progression and a spiral curriculum, we use Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE, as our chosen teaching and learning programme and tailor it to your children’s needs. The mapping document: Jigsaw 3-11 and statutory Relationships and Health Education, shows exactly how Jigsaw and therefore our school, meets the statutory Relationships and Health Education requirements.

This programme’s complimentary update policy ensures we are always using the most up to date teaching materials and that our teachers are well-supported.

Whole School Approach

At Cheadle Primary School we allocate at least one hour lesson time to PSHE each week in order to teach the PSHE knowledge and skills in a developmental and age-appropriate way.

These explicit lessons are reinforced and enhanced in many ways:

Assemblies and collective worship, praise and reward system, Learning Charter, through relationships child to child, adult to child and adult to adult across the school. We aim to ‘live’ what is learnt and apply it to everyday situations in the school community.

Class teachers deliver the weekly lessons to their own classes.

Units

The learning theme of each of the six Puzzles (units) are taught across the school at the same time; the learning deepens and broadens every year.

Core Knowledge and skills

Please click on the links below to see our subject progression documents for PSHE.

PSHE Core Knowledge Progression document

PSHE skills progression grid

PSHE long term plan

assessment

Much of the work produced in Jigsaw is verbal, but each child from Year 1 onwards has their own Jigsaw Journal where they can record their work, reflections, and achievements. Assessments are made based upon children’s responses in lessons; both written and verbal. At the end of each puzzle piece, teacher’s record children’s achievements on the school’s assessment system – Otrack.

Termly assessment will show that most children at Cheadle Primary School are achieving in PSHE at age-related expectations. The work across the curriculum will show that skills taught in PSHE are transferred into other subjects, showing a consolidation of knowledge and ability to showcase PSHE objectives.

Most importantly, we hope that as children move on from Cheadle Primary School, to further their education and learning, that they have the knowledge and skills necessary to better understand our rapidly changing world and face the ever-growing challenges that we face in our societies both locally and internationally.

cultural capital and enrichment

Cultural capital is the accumulation of knowledge, behaviours, and skills that a child can draw upon and which demonstrates their cultural awareness, knowledge and competence; it is one of the key ingredients a pupil will draw upon to be successful in society, their career and the world of work.

In PSHE, Cultural Capital can be gained in many ways;

- From the study of international cultures

- Opportunity to communicate using a modern foreign language

- Knowledge of festivals and customs related to the countries in which the language is spoken and are also given the opportunity to hear stories set in the foreign culture.

Opportunities to develop Cultural Capital are woven throughout the whole Jigsaw programme. An example of this is during the ‘Celebrating Difference’ puzzle piece. During this unit of work, our Year 5 children have the chance to explore a culture that is different to their own.

Whole school enrichment opportunities

Whole school enrichment is key to fulfilling the purpose and aims of our PSHE curriculum. Themed events such as Anti – Bullying Week, Children in Need, Red Nose Day and World Mental Health Week, link to SMSC, British Values and the PSHE Curriculum.

Our pupils recently took part in a Red Nose Day fundraising event where they came to school dressed in something red and had the opportunity to enter into a joke competition. The events were planned by our School Council who were eager to raise as much money as possible. The pupils raised a fantastic £319.38. This fundraiser was an excellent example of how our pupils are encouraged to become positive contributors to our community.

This year, we also took part in Children’s World Mental Health Week. Our pupils took part in a series of challenges throughout the week to develop an understanding of the importance of keeping their minds healthy. The overall theme was ‘Growing together’ and each day the children took on a different element of the NHS 5 ways to wellbeing strategy: connect, be active, learn, give, take notice. The activities were planned to equip the children with a toolbox of skills to support mental wellness. At the end of the week, we also held a ‘Dress to Express’ non – uniform day; asking the children to be themselves and wear whatever they would like to express their own personalities and individualities. The week was a great success – and the complete toolboxes are on display in our classrooms for the children to refer to throughout each day.