PSHE Curriculum

PSHE

 

PSHE should be taught in a spiral programme, revisiting themes, increasing the challenge, broadening and deepening pupil’s thinking.

Please select content that is relevant to your class and year group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health and wellbeing

 

 

 

 

 

 

Identify what constitutes a healthy lifestyle including the benefits of physical activity, rest, healthy eating and dental health

 

 

 

 

 

 

To recognise what they like and dislike, how to make real, informed choices that improve their physical and emotional health, to recognise that choices can have good and not so good consequences

 

 

 

 

 

 

To think about themselves, to learn from their experiences, to recognise and celebrate their strengths and set simple but challenging goals

 

 

 

 

 

 

Describe good and not so good feelings, develop a vocabulary to describe their feelings to others and simple strategies for managing feelings

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discuss change and loss and the associated feelings (including moving home, losing toys, pets or friends)

 

 

 

 

 

 

To understand the importance of and how to maintain personal hygiene

 

 

 

 

 

 

To learn how some diseases are spread and can be controlled and the responsibilities they have for their own health and that of others

 

 

 

 

 

 

To understand the process of growing from young to old and how people’s needs change

 

 

 

 

 

 

Identify growing and changing and new opportunities and responsibilities that increasing independence may bring

 

 

 

 

 

 

To name the main parts of the body (including external genitalia) the similarities and differences between boys and girls

 

 

 

 

 

 

To understand that household products, including medicines, can be harmful if not used properly

 

 

 

 

 

 

Decide rules for and ways of keeping physically and emotionally safe (including safety online, the responsible use of ICT, the difference between secrets and surprises and understanding not to keep adults’ secrets

 

 

 

 

 

 

To think about people who look after them, their family networks, who to go to if they are worried and how to attract their attention

 

 

 

 

 

 

To recognise that they share a responsibility for keeping themselves and others safe, when to say, ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘I’ll ask’ and ‘I’ll tell’

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relationships

 

 

 

 

 

 

To communicate their feelings to others, to recognise how others show feelings and how to respond

 

 

 

 

 

 

To recognise how their behaviour affects other people

 

 

 

 

 

 

To understand the difference between secrets and surprises and the importance of not keeping adults’ secrets, only surprises

 

 

 

 

 

 

To recognise what is fair and unfair, kind and unkind, what is right and wrong

 

 

 

 

 

 

To share their opinions on things that matter to them and explain their views through discussions with one other person and the whole class

 

 

 

 

 

 

To listen to other people and play and work cooperatively (including strategies to resolve simple arguments through negotiation)

 

 

 

 

 

 

To offer constructive support and feedback to others

 

 

 

 

 

 

To identify and respect the differences and similarities between people

 

 

 

 

 

 

To identify their special people (family, friends, carers), what makes them special and how special people should care for one another

 

 

 

 

 

 

To judge what kind of physical contact is acceptable, comfortable, unacceptable and uncomfortable and how to respond (including who to tell and how to tell them)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Understand that people’s bodies and feelings can be hurt (including what makes them feel comfortable and uncomfortable)

 

 

 

 

 

 

To recognise when people are being unkind either to them or others, how to respond, who to tell and what to say

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discuss that there are different types of teasing and bullying, that these are wrong and unacceptable

 

 

 

 

 

 

Understand how to resist teasing or bullying, if they experience or witness it, whom to go to and how to get help

 

 

 

 

 

 

Understand how to resist teasing or bullying, if they experience or witness it, whom to go to and how to get help

 

 

 

 

 

 

Living in the wider world

 

 

 

 

 

 

Understand how to contribute to the life of the classroom

 

 

 

 

 

 

To help construct, and agree to follow, group and class rules and to understand how these rules help them

 

 

 

 

 

 

Understand that people and other living things have needs and that they have responsibilities to meet them (including being able to take turns, share and understand the need to return things that have been borrowed

 

 

 

 

 

 

To understand that they belong to various groups and communities such as family and school

 

 

 

 

 

 

To think about what improves and harms their local, natural and built environments and about some of the ways people look after them

 

 

 

 

 

 

To understand that money comes from different sources and can be used for different purposes, including the concepts of spending and saving

 

 

 

 

 

 

To learn about the role money plays in their lives including how to manage their money, keep it safe, choices about spending money and what influences those choices