PSHE/RSHE
Intent Statement
At Shay Lane, we have invested in One-Life which meet the needs of all children in our school. One-Life explicitly teaches all children how to live their ‘one life’ well. The clear end goal of the programme is to ensure that all pupils know how to live a healthy, safe and happy life and know to manage their academic, personal and social lives in a positive way. With a strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health, One-Life properly equips school to deliver engaging and relevant PSHE within a whole-school approach. It teaches children to do what is good and right in the hope that if they know better, they will choose better. It is deeply rooted in recent research from psychologists, social physiologists and doctors.
At the heart of One Life is building strong mental, physical and social fitness. Each statutory requirement has been broken down into age-appropriate content which has been sequenced and connected to ensure that children know more and do better. The content is repeated deliberately, at an age-appropriate level, to ensure that children know more, remember more and do more with it. The content also covers children’s spiritual, moral, cultural and social development whilst ensuring that they grow with their character with British Values at the heart.
This programme of work covers the following statutory components of the Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education
guidance and ensures that all of this content is taught and not told:
• Families and People who Care for Me
• Caring Friendships
• Respectful Relationships
• Online Relationships
• Being Safe
• Personal Safety
• Physical Health and Mental Well-being:
• Mental Wellbeing
• Online Safety and Harms
• Physical Health and Fitness
• Healthy Eating
• Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco -Y5/Y6
• Health and Prevention
• Basic First Aid
• Changing Adolescent Body (Developing Bodies) -Y5/6
​Implementation
The Curriculum has been planned carefully to ensure all children build on their PSHE knowledge and skills year on year. Themes have been planned to engage and enthuse children's learning, whilst taking into consideration previous learning and how to move them further on in their learning.
Through One Life, RSHE content is broken down into 3 strands: Mental Fitness; Physical Fitness and Social Fitness. We are passionate in our belief that, for our children to grow into happy, healthy and well-rounded young people and adults, we must teach them, explicitly, how to develop mentally, physically and socially.
Impact
Our aim at Shay Lane Primary School is to nurture and prepare our children to be ready for the future. Our PSHE curriculum is integral in this and is interwoven through everything wo do. PSHE enables our children to become healthy, independent and responsible members of society. It aims to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are all part of growing up. We provide our children with opportunities to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. Our children are encouraged to be global citizens; develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life, the wider community and the wider world.
Relationship, Sex and Health Education
Before beginning to roll out RSHE across school, we carried out a staff and parent consultation. Comments were addressed by school leaders, and taken into account by the Governing Board who agreed that the teaching of RSHE should go ahead. Sex education in Shay Lane is defined as "how a baby is made and born" which is taught in Year 5 and Year 6. These lessons are supplemented to enrich the offer of One-Life to cover all statutory areas of the curricuum.
At Shay Lane, we teach RSHE (Relationship, Sex and Health Education) as part of PSHE, which means that parents are able to withdraw their children from lessons that cover 'intercourse, conception and birth'. This needs to be done in writing via the school office. At Shay Lane, we believe this work is an important part of safeguarding children, as knowledge empowers them, helping them to stay safe and cope with puberty understanding why their bodies will change.
Morning Routine
When children come into school we have a set One-life routine that all classes follow. This consists of:
- Meet and Greet
- Mindful activities
- Talk it out
- Journaling
- Mindful minute
- Daily affirmations
- Words of wisdom
Children are met by their teachers on the door for a full connection. Children get to choose the safe touch (handshake, hug, high five etc. to release oxytocin). We believe this morning routine is important and essential to all children in Shay Lane as it allows the children to connect with their teachers, develop skills to communicate with others and allows them to practise self-care in a mindful approach.
One-Life Lessons
One-Life lessons are delivered weekly by class teachers which cover the PSHE curriculum guidance. Throughout the school, all children are learning the same themes at the same time (in an age-appropriate way) this allows us as a school to get a clear message across in our PSHE curriculum. In these lessons, classes get to explore new books with impactful messages which cover that weeks lesson. Children will then work in their PSHE book in creative ways to express what has been learnt in each lesson.
Pupil Voice
Here is what our children have to say about our morning routine:
"I enjoy the peaceful time when we come into class on a morning to focus on ourself."
"In talk it out I get to get everything off my chest and share with my friends."
"I love having mindful minutes as they help with my thoughts."
"I like getting to do mindful doodling because I get to be creative."
"My favourite part is getting to give my teacher a hug on a morning."
"I enjoy getting to look at my behaviour and pick it apart in Reflection Friday."
Here is what our children have to say about our One-Life lessons:
"I know that a part of my brain acts like a guard dog which senses danger to protect me."
"I enjoy getting to learn creatively in my book."
"My favourite part was learning about boundaries and being able to set them for myself."
"I look forward to reading a new book each week with lots of new learning."
"I like learning about parts of my brain because it helps me understand it more."
"My favourite lesson was when my teacher showed me to be like cooked spaghetti."
"I know that if I make a mistake, I can redo it and bounce back."
"I love One-Life because it teaches me to never give up."
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