Intent
We intend to provide a whole school PSHCE curriculum that builds foundations of health and wellbeing, providing crucial skills and positive attitudes to enable children to achieve their best potential, academically and socially. We want our children to develop and deepen their personal, social, emotional development in ways that are tailored to their age group, whilst also expanding on their previous knowledge as they progress through the school.
Our intention is for our children to learn about themselves as developing individuals and as members of their communities, building on their own experiences and experiences of others, and through our values of Hope, Peace, Respect, Forgiveness, Community, Faith and Love. We also intend to celebrate the diversity all of our pupils, by acknowledging their festivals and traditions.
We want to provide a safe space for the children to learn PSHCE, providing them with the ability to make safe and informed choices, taking responsibility for their actions, respecting and valuing difference and being the best that they can be. Children will learn to show acceptance of others regardless of their background, religion, race, gender or sexuality, and develop their understanding of others. Throughout their education we want to provide effective SRE education, to enable the children to make responsible and well informed decisions about their lives, to help and support them through their physical, emotional and moral development. It is our aim to help our pupils to learn to respect themselves and others and move with confidence from childhood through adolescence into adulthood.
Implementation
At Tewkesbury C of E we follow the SCARF PSHCE program, which is a whole school approach that provides a scheme of learning from the Early Years Foundation Stage through to, and including, Year 6.
SCARF, standing for Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience and Friendship is mapped to the PSHCE Association programmes of study. It is centred on a values based, ‘Growth Mindset’ approach and is divided into six half- termly units. The units are tailored to each year group under the following themes:
o Being my Best,
o Me and my Relationships,
o Keeping Myself Safe,
o Valuing Difference,
o Growing and Changing,
o Rights and Responsibilities.
The units are taught through our R.E.A.L curriculum, which allows them to be explored in greater depth and with resources that are tailored to each age group.
Every teacher has access to SCARF online resources, which include lesson plans and additional resources for use/ amendment. This is including additional issues that may arise in classrooms regarding certain topics, e.g. LGBTQ
We embed our school values, promoted throughout the curriculum wherever possible of; Hope, Peace, Respect, Forgiveness, Community, Faith and Love. The British Values are also embedded throughout the curriculum where possible. The values play a key part within our collective worship focuses each term.
As well as using the SCARF scheme, we also use collective worships to discuss matters such as ‘random acts of kindness’, anti-bullying, e-safety, wellbeing etc.
Each class has the use of a Value book, used to record any significant learning. Reflection books are used to collect the thoughts and ideas the children have explored through PSHCE and other SMSC aspects that they explore through lessons and collective worship.
Weekly class reflections are used to discuss and explore issues such as friendship, feelings etc.
Impact
A meaningful PSHCE curriculum supports to children becoming happier, positive about school life as a whole, have a better understanding of rules and responsibilities, being enabled to handle setbacks and disagreements
PSHCE is evidenced using the Value book. All teachers and TAs use the Reflection book to record significant learning in any way that they choose.
Children have a safe space in which to discuss their feelings, opinions and develop their emotional intelligence.
Teachers use informal assessment tools to review how the children are progressing within each area of PSHE learning, including circle
times, discussions, focus questions, independent tasks.
Children recognise and understand the school values and the fundamental British values.
Children demonstrate a healthy outlook towards school, and demonstrate positive behaviour because they understand that they have a responsibility for their own actions and how they affect others.
For more understanding of the SCARF curriculum, please follow the link: https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/family-scarf
SIAMS – Outstanding
