PSHE - Becoming citizens!

Please press the link below to see our PSHE Progression Map. 

Purpose of Study:

At Dunchurch, PSHE is at the core of what we do and enables our children to become independent, confident, healthy, and responsible members of society, as well as developing the “whole child” intellectually, morally, socially, and spiritually. Through our whole-school approach to PSHE, it is our belief that excellence in these areas will lead to excellence across the curriculum and beyond in later life. PSHE is taught across the school from Nursery to Y2 on a weekly basis and as a school, we follow the Jigsaw PSHE scheme and A Preventative Education Curriculum (protective behaviours). Our PSHE curriculum equips children with relevant and meaningful content, which is supported through a strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health. Within an ever-changing society, we can provide our children with a strong understanding of the diverse world around them and support them in playing a positive role in contributing to the school and the wider community. Weaving through the heart of our PSHE teaching, is a commitment to enhancing and promoting our School Values, forgiveness, kindness, patience, honesty and respect.

Personal, Social, Health Education

It is necessary for children to develop an understanding of the world in which they live, to realise their role in the community, their relationships with others, and to appreciate the views and feelings of other people. They need to understand the work people do and the contribution that they make to society. We try to ensure that pupils understand the importance of caring for the environment, how events in the past have influenced the present and the fact that the future will be affected by today’s actions.

Here, at Dunchurch Boughton CofE Infant Academy and Nursery, we value PSHE as a key way to support children’s development as human beings, to enable them to understand and respect who they are, to empower them with a voice and to equip them for life and learning. We teach Personal, Social, Health Education as a whole-school approach. We include the Protective Behaviours Scheme within our whole-school PSHE Programme. 

To ensure progression and a spiral curriculum, we use Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE, as our chosen teaching and learning programme and tailor it to children’s needs. We allocate 30 minutes to PSHE each week in order to teach the PSHE knowledge and skills in a developmental and age-appropriate way. These explicit lessons are reinforced and enhanced in many ways:  

Assemblies and collective worship, praise and reward system.  

The Jigsaw scheme and teaching, fits well with our school vision and school values: respect, honesty, kindness, patience and forgiveness.

Below are the knowledge organisers for Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 which gives you information about the knowledge and skills that the children will be learning. It also gives you information on the vocabulary taught and how the unit it connected to prior learning.

Relationship and Health Education 

Relationships and Health Education is compulsory for all pupils receiving primary education. The governors of the school have decided that the school will provide a programme of sex education. Materials and content used are judged to be appropriate for the pupil’s age and development and are presented sensitively, within a moral, family orientated and Christian framework. Parents have the right to withdraw their children from some or all of the schools sex education programme. 

At Dunchurch, we use the Jigsaw scheme to deliver Relationships, Sex and Health Education.