Personal, Social & Health Education
Our PSHE programme of study – SCARF (Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship) aims to equip our pupils with the knowledge, understanding, skills and strategies required to become healthy, independent and responsible members of society.
Our curriculum intends to develop the whole child through carefully planned and resourced lessons that foster pupils’ knowledge and skills necessary to grow personally and socially, to protect and enhance their wellbeing, to stay safe and healthy, build and maintain successful relationships and become active citizens, who are able to responsibly contribute to our diverse society.
SCARF promotes a deep understanding of British Values, developing appreciation of others and their value in society, as well as build positive views of themselves, so as to develop their self-worth, a strong sense of identity and become confident citizens by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.
All the topics support social, moral, spiritual and cultural development and provide all pupils with appropriate and essential safeguarding knowledge to enable them to know they can ask for help.
The SCARF programme of study is fully in line with the learning outcomes and core themes of the PSHE Association scheme of work. It covers all the required objectives and follows the three core areas of:
- Health and Wellbeing,
- Relationships and
- Living in the Wider World.
It also fulfils the requirements of the 2020 Statutory Relationship and Health Education which enables all pupils to build good, safe and healthy relationships now and in their future lives.
What do we teach?
Our curriculum is designed to be taught in thematic units with a spiral approach, ensuring themes can be revisited and pupils can recall and build upon previous learning, exploring the underlying principles of PSHE education regularly, at a depth that is appropriate for the age and stage of their education. All lessons include resources and opportunities to build a rich bank of vocabulary.
The six thematic units are taught in a spiral curriculum that revisits each theme approximately every two years. This enables children to recall and build upon prior learning, exploring the underlying principles of our PSHE education regularly and at depth, whilst being appropriate for the age and stage of the child. Lessons are designed for delivery in a creative manner, using many approaches, such as role play, class discussions, art work, small group work and games.