“You really can change the world if you care enough.” – Marion Wright Elderman
Vision
At Marton Manor Primary School, we inspire pupils to be unique, positive and mindful individuals. Children in our school receive relevant learning experiences to help them to navigate their world and develop positive relationships with themselves and others.
We use a whole school PSHE scheme called Jigsaw. Jigsaw combines PSHE, emotional literacy, mindfulness, social skills and spiritual development. Jigsaw is designed as a whole school approach, with all year groups working on the same theme / ‘puzzle’ every half term.
Intent
- ‘PSHE’ stands for Personal, Social, Health and Economic education. Our comprehensive scheme of learning is based upon a whole school approach to PSHE which is progressive and sequential.
- Furthermore, it reflects a mindful and child-centred approach, with emphasis on emotional literacy, mental health and SMSC (Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural), development.
- Our curriculum helps children to understand and value how they fit into and contribute to society and the wider world. They have the opportunity to reflect on their experiences and understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling issues that are part of growing up.
- At Marton Manor, we want our children to have high aspirations, a belief in themselves and to realise that anything is possible if they put their mind to it.
- Jigsaw contributes, as a good PSHE programme should, to the British Values agenda very significantly, both through the direct teaching of information and through the experiential learning children will enjoy. The five strands of the British Values agenda have been mapped across every puzzle and every piece (lesson).
- In an ever–changing world, it is important that our pupils are aware, to an appropriate level, of different factors which will affect their world and that they learn how to deal with these so that they have good mental health and well-being.
- With strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health, our PSHE curriculum delivers engaging and relevant lessons, including mindfulness sessions, which enable children to advance their emotional awareness, concentration and focus.
- Our intention is that when children leave Marton Manor Primary School, they will do so with the knowledge, understanding, skills and emotions to be able to play an active, positive and successful role in today’s diverse society.
PSHE National Curriculum KS1/KS2
Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education is an important and necessary part of all pupils’ education. All schools should teach PSHE, drawing on good practice.
PSHE is a non-statutory subject. To allow teachers the flexibility to deliver high-quality PSHE we consider it unnecessary to provide new standardised frameworks or programmes of study. PSHE can encompass many areas of study. Teachers are best placed to understand the needs of their pupils and do not need additional central prescription.
However, while we believe that it is for schools to tailor their local PSHE programme to reflect the needs of their pupils, we expect schools to use their PSHE education programme to equip pupils with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions.
Schools should seek to use PSHE education to build, where appropriate, on the statutory content already outlined in the national curriculum, the basic school curriculum and in statutory guidance on: drug education, financial education, sex and relationship education (SRE) and the importance of physical activity and diet for a healthy lifestyle.
Relationships and sex education (RSE) is an important part of PSHE education. Relationships education is compulsory for all primary school pupils, and relationships and sex education (RSE) is compulsory for all secondary school pupils.
