The overarching aim for PSHE education at Salesbury School is to provide pupils with:

·        accurate and relevant knowledge in order to thrive now and in the future

·        opportunities to turn that knowledge into personal understanding

·        opportunities to explore, clarify and if necessary challenge, their own and others’ values, attitudes, beliefs, rights and responsibilities

the skills, language and strategies they need in order to live healthy, safe, fulfilling, responsible and balanced lives.

In PSHE children will experience:

·        Debates and discussions

·        Opportunities to use drama, freeze frame, ICT skills, play scripts

·        Visits or visitors

·        Empathy for others

·        Lessons about how to stay safe in all aspects of their life

·        Lessons about physical and mental wellbeing

·        Higher order questioning

·        Opportunities to put their values and beliefs into practise

·        Opportunities to use their knowledge to help others in the community or wider world

·        Positive feedback that may challenge their thinking and beliefs

SEND

SEND pupils will have work planned and adapted to meet their learning needs. They will be offered support in the classroom. Children will learn life skills in small groups in the Learning Lounge.

Non Negotiables

·        Tier 3 vocabulary relating to specific themes

·        Strong language structures and guidelines for talk

·        Statutory elements of scheme of work must be taught

·        All children given opportunity to express ideas, opinions

·        Evidence of lessons recorded in big jotters or individual books

·        Lessons taught in the order given on the curriculum map

·        Split classes to be taught sections relevant to their year groups

·        Develop reflective skills of all children

·        Children to complete exit slips at the end of units of work

·        Visits and visitors planned

·        Variety or resources used

·        Interactive lessons

·        Pictures/images depicting a range of faiths and cultures

As a result of the PSHE programme of learning, pupils at Salesbury School will

·        Know and understand how to live healthy, safe, productive, capable, responsible and balanced lives

·        have some basic first aid knowledge

·        Be able to reflect on and clarify their own values and attitudes and explore the complex and sometimes conflicting range of values and attitudes they encounter now and in the future

·        Develop skills of enterprise and skills that support them in making effective transitions, positive learning and career choices and in achieving economic wellbeing

·        Understand they have the right to make informed choices and understand what influences their decisions

·        Understand they have a responsibility to develop an understanding of themselves, develop empathy and the ability to work with others and maintain good relationships, develop the essential skills for future employability and better enjoy and manage their lives

·        Have the knowledge and capability to take care of their health (including relationships and sex education) and mental well-being

·        Build their confidence, resilience and self-esteem and to identify and manage risks

·        Recognise, accept and shape their identities, to understand and accommodate difference and change, to manage emotions and to communicate constructively in a variety of settings now and in their future lives