RSE & PHSE at St Mary's
At St Mary’s Catholic Primary, our goal is for children to leave us with the knowledge, understanding and emotional resilience to play an active, positive and successful role in today’s diverse society. We want our children to have high aspirations, believe in themselves, and understand that, with determination, anything is possible. In an ever-changing world, it is essential that they develop an awareness of the factors that may impact their lives and learn strategies to maintain good mental health and well-being.
Our PSHE curriculum equips children with the knowledge and skills to access the wider curriculum and prepares them to be responsible global citizens. We teach PSHE through Ten: Ten programme, which is a leading provider of faith-based resources for Catholic primary schools. 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 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 develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community. The intent of PSHE is also to provide a starting point for our children to develop their oracy skills. In the hope of children becoming more confident and competent in their ability to express and explain their opinions regarding school, local and global matters
PSHE lessons ensure the following core themes across all key stages:
- Health and wellbeing
- Relationship
- Living in the Wider World
It fosters their spiritual, moral, cultural, mental, and physical development, ensuring they are ready for the opportunities, responsibilities, and challenges of later life. Through our Relationships and Sex Education, delivered via ‘Life to the Full,’ children learn how to stay safe and build healthy, positive relationships both now and in the future.
PSHE is an integral part of the week at St Mary’s School and is supported through whole school worships, our values, Outdoor Learning, Young Mind’s #HelloYellow Mental Health Awareness Day, our annual Mental Health and Well-Being Week, the visiting ‘Life Bus’ which aims to further support self-esteem and self-worth and also our variety of extra-curricular clubs such as Young Voices. At St Mary’s, we also value developing our pupils emotional literacy through ELSA. We use the Thrive based ‘Connect before Correct’ approach across the school and believe that healthy, positive relationships lie at the centre of ensuring that all of our pupils feel happy and safe.
The RE curriculum is firmly interwoven with personal, social and emotional issues. The nature of RE teaching in the school provides pupils with regular opportunities to discuss and express their own views as well as the views of others. We are currently working towards achieving the Bronze Healthy schools and Live Simply award.
We celebrate our diverse and amazing school community throughout the year.
EYFS
In the Foundation Stage, PSHE and citizenship is taught as an integral part of topic work and is embedded throughout the curriculum. The objectives taught are the Personal, Social and Emotional Development statements from ‘Development Matters in the EYFS’ and the PSED Early Learning Goals. PSHE runs across the curriculum into topic work. PSED is embedded across the Reception curriculum; it’s about making relationships, developing a sense of self and regulating behaviour.
RSE
At Saint Mary’s Catholic Primary, in addition to Relationships Education, we also teach aspects of Sex Education in our Science Curriculum. The Sex Education aspects of PSHE are taught through the Life To The Full Scheme.
https://www.tentenresources.co.uk/life-to-the-full-catholic-landing-page/
Please click here to see our school's RSE policy and here for an overview of our RSE curriculum.
