At Chislet, our PSHE curriculum enables our pupils to understand the world around them and develop their skills and understanding when faced with new experiences, meeting new challenges and finding themselves in unfamiliar situations, in order for them to become healthy, independent and responsible members of society.

It intends to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. Values-based education underpins everyday life at Chislet, providing our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of 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.  Pupils are encouraged to respectfully challenge views and seek additional knowledge in order that they can make informed decisions about the world that they live in.

We use the Kapow Scheme of Work, which brings consistency and progression to our children’s learning. The Kapow Primary scheme is a whole school approach that consists of three areas of learning in EYFS: Reception (to match the EYFS Personal, social and emotional development prime area) and five areas of learning across Key stages 1 and 2.

EYFS:

•  Self-regulation
• Building relationships
• Managing self

Key stage 1 and 2: 

• Families and relationships

• Health and wellbeing

• Safety and the changing body

• Citizenship

• Economic wellbeing 

Each area is revisited to allow children to build on prior learning. The lessons also provide a progressive programme, based upon the statutory requirements for Relationships and Health education, but where our lessons go beyond these requirements (primarily in the Citizenship and Economic wellbeing areas), they refer to the PSHE Association Programme of Study which is recommended by the DfE.

The scheme supports the requirements of the Equality Act through direct teaching. For example, learning about different families, the negative effect of stereotypes and celebrating differences, in addition to the inclusion of diverse teaching resources throughout the lessons. Sex education has been included in line with the DfE recommendations and is covered in Year 6 of our scheme.