PSHE

Our PSHE and Relationship Education Vision

Our vision encompasses understanding relationships, personal identity, and emotional awareness. We prioritize physical health and safety while fostering confidence, respect, and social skills for flourishing connections. Additionally, we aim to nurture mental well-being, community understanding, and media literacy. Our commitment is to empower children with knowledge, empathy, and resilience.

Key Documents:

PSHE and Relationship Education Curriculum Overview

RSE Objectives

 PSHE Lessons

Our PSHE policy reflects the requirements which have been set out by the new DfE Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education document. We have taken advice and based our curriculum on the PSHE Association planning and guidance. There are three core themes:

• Health and Wellbeing
• Relationships
• Living in the Wider World (economic wellbeing and being a responsible citizen).

Relationship and Sex Education

We have amended the PSHE Association planning to incorporate the RSE objectives from the scheme ‘SCARF’ (in particular, the Sex Education objectives). At Holy Trinity, we feel that it is vital that the RSE curriculum is taught throughout the school in each year group rather than a standalone block of lessons in specific year groups. This gives the children many opportunities to address certain topics and misconceptions can be addressed as soon as possible.

Community Time and Diversity

Community Time takes place at least once a fortnight in all classes. During Community Time sessions, the pupils will learn about:

• The School’s Rainbow Values
• The British Values
• Diversity

Community Time can also be used to develop skills based on what the class needs at the time, for example: friendships, behaviour, identity or emotional literacy (such as Anxiety Gremlin) etc. This varies depending on the pupils and needs in the class.

Please see the Personal Development pages for more information

Life Skills

At Holy Trinity, we feel it is paramount to ensure that our children leave our school fully prepared and have the skills to flourish in their life ahead of them. As a school, we explicitly teach 3 life skills within each year group throughout the course of the year. This is in addition to our PSHE curriculum. Please see below the life skills for each year group.