PSHE lead: Katrina Liddle

PSHE Intent: 

At St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School, Relationships Education, RSE and Health Education complement several National Curriculum subjects. We look for opportunities to draw links between the subjects and integrate teaching where appropriate. We want our children to enjoy learning; to be confident and independent, to build resilience and persistence, Children should be confident to be able to transfer skills from one area of learning to another. 

Catholic Social Teaching.

Our children are encouraged to explore human dignity and celebrate the diverse world we live in. We focus on people’s strengths, celebrate differences, and understand that everyone has the right to live the life they choose as long as they are not hurting others. They also have the opportunity to explore how they can make positive lifestyle choices and recognise their gifts are God given.

Children explore their own feelings, as well as the feelings of those around them. Our children gain the skills to manage their emotions positively and to understand how and where to seek help if needed.

We encourage stewardship by supporting our children’s understanding of the world around them, and introduces them  the needs of humans and other living things as they grow, including how adults contribute to the working world. They will also learn how they can look after Gods’ world and reduce their carbon footprint.

Implementation

P.S.H.E. will be delivered to address the following statutory(relationships and health) objectives by the end of primary school: Mental wellbeing, online safety and harms, Physical health and fitness. Healthy eating, Drugs, alcohol and tobacco, Health and prevention, Basic first aid, Being safe, Online relationships, Caring friendships, Respective relationships, changing adolescent body (9years onwards), families and people who care for me.

PSHE will further support the development of the skills, attitudes, values and patterns of behaviour, which enable pupils to; 

•to inspire everyone

•enrich their life now and in the future

•Form relationships

•Explore learning. 

•Communicate effectively

•to work both as part of a team and as an individual

•Respond to challenge

•to articulate and share ideas

•Be active citizens within the local community

•Explore issues related to living in a democratic society

Impact

Our Pupils are encouraged to take part in a wide range of activities and experiences across and beyond the curriculum, contributing fully to the life of our school and with close links to the community.  In doing so children learn to recognise their own worth, work well with others and become increasingly responsible for their own learning. They reflect on their experiences and understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling many of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up.

We want our children to enjoy learning; to be, confident and independent to build resilience and persistence, to be able to transfer skills from one area of learning to another, to work both as part of a team and as an individual, to articulate and share ideas, thoughts and feelings which enable excellent well being and good mental and physical health, to be creative in whatever way they can, in and out of the classroom, and to be intellectually challenged and fulfilled.

Our relationship and sex education is based on our children understanding the importance of marriage and family life, stable and loving relationships, respect, love and care.  Our implementation of RSE will ensure sufficient attention is paid to developing the self-esteem of children in order that they can make informed choices in the future.  The children will also be provided with sufficient factual knowledge related to their age. Although RSE is taught through different aspects of the curriculum it will be rooted in the RE, PSHE and the Ten Ten RSE scheme Life to the full.

This is the link for 10:10 relationships resources which we will use in school and you can access at home too should you wish to :

                                               https://www.tentenresources.co.uk/parent-portal/​

 Year 3 and 4 walked to the library to find books about rubbish and recycling. On the way back, they did a litter pick to tidy up the streets, thinking about our Catholic social teaching theme Care for creation. 

Step up to the plate food campaign for Primary schools

There is enough food for everyone, yet 1 person in 10 is hungry.

We found  out how the way  that food is grown and shared - our global food system - is broken.  We took action to tell the government to keep the promises they made at COP26.  We are calling on the government to keep the poorest communities at the heart of its decisions.

31 January 2021

Children in Year 1/2 have recently been looking at the story of The Jolly Postman. This week they had the opportunity of writing letters home to their families. They were then able to walk to the local postbox in small groups to post and send their letters home! What a lovely surprise for their families!

As part of our PSHE and RE we thought about how to protect our environment ahead of the G8 summit. We wanted to our Prime Minister to know that we are watching our world leaders. We used the Cafod campaign "The eyes of the World are on us" "Dear Prime Minister, are you protecting our planet? The eyes of the world are watching you."

Mental Health Awareness Week  12th May

Our children have been thinking about their mental health and wellbeing using the theme of nature. In Years 1 and 2 they have been going outside each morning; observing the world around them, listening to birdsong and using this time to talk about what they can see and hear and how they are feeling. We have noticed that this opportunity has really benefitted the children. Throughout the school we have been using our outside areas for prayer time, for reading and for drawing…

Children in ks2 took part in a live Parliament online workshop. The children took part in discussions, questions and found out lots of information about how Parliament works. This was led by MPS within the houses of Parliament and gave the children a great opportunity to find out how our government works.
It also fitted in well with our PSHE theme of preparing to play an active role as citizens.

Following on from this we joined in with UK school parliament week where children across the school took  part in activities to further our knowledge.
ks1. considered our local community. We drew maps of where we live and thought about the problems we encounter; people not picking up dog poo, parking, roads closed that people still drive along and rubbish were some of the ideas.
Ks2 also thought about their communities and wrote letters to our local MP.

In November 2021 the whole school had a talk from Vernon the Firefighter. We learnt how to stay safe and what to do if there is a fire as well as learning about what firefighters do. The message the children want to pass to parents is " In the event of fire : GET OUT, STAY OUT, and CALL 999"

The children have been working alongside the local Care home to help out and celebrate National Grandparents Day. They made these cards and completed some other activities to interact with the residents