Personal Social and Health Education Curriculum

PSHE at St Austin's...

PSHE stands for Personal, Social and Health Education. It is an important part of your child's national curriculum learning.

Personal, social and health education (PSHE) helps to give children the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy and independent lives. It aims to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. The kinds of questions that might come up in PSHE include: What acts indicate kindness? What is ‘wellbeing’? Why do we have to eat vegetables? How can I stay safe online?

It is here that your child will learn about bullying, citizenship, drug education, healthy eating, physical activity, mental and emotional health, wellbeing, and relationships and sex education.

Learning opportunities take place in specific lessons as well as in assemblies, circle time, special school projects and other activities that enrich pupils' experiences e.g. visitors to school.

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Why is PSHE education provision important to schools?

PSHE education makes a major contribution to schools’ statutory responsibilities to:

promote children and young people’s wellbeing
achieve the whole curriculum aims
promote community cohesion

Why is PSHE education important to children and young people?

PSHE education equips children and young people with knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills to live healthy, safe, productive, fulfilled, capable and responsible lives.

How is PSHE, including RHE taught at our school?

The RHE curriculum that is taught within our setting follows statutory guidance set out by the Department for Education (2020-21).

We follow the Ten:Ten - Life to the Full programme which is a curriculum programme underpinned by a Christian faith understanding that our deepest identity is as a child of God – created, chosen and loved by God. The curriculum provided by the Life to the Full programme is based on “A Model Catholic RSE Curriculum” provided by the Catholic Education Service.