Aims
Our approach
Curriculum Overview
Reception
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
PSHE Association

Aims

PSHE

PSHE stands for Personal, Social, Health and Economic education. It is an important and necessary part of all pupils’ education. Whilst it is a non-statutory subject, it includes a range of statutory content outlined in the national curriculum and within specific guidance on safeguarding, drugs education, financial education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and health education.

At Ark Blacklands, we are committed to providing a broad and balanced life-skills curriculum through PSHE education. This is taught through the three strands of Relationships and Sex Education, Health Education and Living in the Wider World. Our PSHE curriculum is essential to providing pupils with the knowledge, skills and attributes needed to manage their lives now, and in the future. Through quality delivery, it aims to develop:

  • Confident individuals who know and understand how to live safe, happy, healthy and fulfilling lives
  • Young people who are able to maintain positive, respectful and healthy relationships, within which they can thrive personally and socially
  • Responsible citizens who understand they have rights and responsibilities that help them to make a positive contribution to society
  • Successful learners who enjoy discovering new knowledge, making progress and achieving success

Our approach

PSHE

At Ark Blacklands, we use the PSHE Association curriculum resources to support our teaching. 

Our curriculum covers the development and learning of children in health, relationships and mental wellbeing and actively promotes children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development.

The knowledge and skills across the three main strands of PSHE education build sequentially through the following topics in Years 1 – 6, with pupils often revisiting an idea or concept again in a later unit:

  • Being Me in My World
  • Celebrating Differences
  • Dreams & Goals
  • Changing Me
  • Relationships
  • Healthy Me

The PSHE curriculum at Ark Blacklands, including RSE, is regularly reviewed to reflect the needs of the pupil population. In addition to regular PSHE lessons, we include specific teaching on wellbeing and mindfulness as well as enabling pupils to be reflective and able to self-regulate through an approach called Zones of Regulation. PSHE teaching often works with pupils’ real-life experiences, addressing a range of personal, social, emotional and health issues. A safe, supportive and respectful learning environment is created by establishing clear ground rules, developed and agreed with all pupils. Lessons are also characterised by active and interactive engagement. In every unit, a variety of teaching and learning styles are used including videos, information sheets, visual aids, games, story books, pictures and drawing, role play and visits by external professionals and theatre groups, for example. The non-statutory content relating to sex education is offered in the Changing Me term. Arrangements for parents to withdraw pupils from sex education lessons are clearly set out in the PSHE (inc. RSE) policy on our website.

PSHE

Finally, as an inclusive school, Ark Blacklands values difference and diversity within our school community and the wider world. As such, PSHE education is delivered within the context of our school Habits of Success:

  • Responsibility, Courage, Independence, Curiosity, Determination, Aspiration and Resilience

We believe that pupils should receive comprehensive, balanced and accurate information that relates to their needs. In exploring their own feelings and attitudes, and those of peers and wider society, our pupils are able to develop values on which to base decisions about relationships, health and living in the wider world.

Curriculum Overview

Reception

Term 1

Term 2
Being Me in My World Celebrating Differences
  • I know what I look like
  • I know how I am different or the same to my friends
  • I know something that I like
  • I can talk about how I am feeling (ZoR)
  • I know why it is good to be kind
  • I know how to use my voice (rights)
  • I can identify something I am good at
  • I can identify something my friend is good at
  • I can identify something that makes me special
  • I know what a kind friend look like
  • I know who to talk to when someone is an unkind friend

Term 3

Term 4
Dreams & Goals Changing Me + Healthy Me
  • I can set a goal
  • I can show determination to achieve my goal
  • I can overcome a challenge to achieve my goal
  • I can use kind words to encourage others
  • I can link my learning to my future
  •  know what it means to feel proud 

 
  • I can name parts of my body
  • I know that we all grow from babies to adults

I know how to keep my body healthy:

  • Exercise
  • Food
  • Sleep
  • Hygiene

Term 5

Term 6
Relationships Healthy Me + Changing Me
  • I know how to make friends
  • I know how to be a good friend
  • I can solve conflict with my friends
  • I know not to use unkind words
  • I can use the Zones of Regulation to manage my feelings

 
  • I know the importance of 'Stranger Danger'
  • I can share my memories of Reception
  • I can manage my feelings in a competition
  • I can talk about what I am looking forward to in Year 1
  • I can discuss my worries about Year 1

 Reception subjects 

Year 1

Term 1

Term 2
Being Me in My World Celebrating Differences

Living in the wider world: Belonging to a community

Protected Characteristics

  • What rules are
  • Caring for others needs
  • Looking after the environment

Relationships: Families and friendship

  • Roles of different people
  • families 
  • Feeling cared for

Health and Wellbeing: Physical health and mental wellbeing

  • Keeping healthy
  • Food and exercise
  • Hygiene routines
  • Sun safety

Relationships: Respecting ourselves and others

  • How behaviour affects others
  • being polite and respectful

Term 3

Term 4
Dreams & Goals Changing Me + Healthy Me

Living in the wider world: Money and Work

  • Strengths and interests
  • Jobs in the community 

Changing Me (JIGSAW Unit)

I can identify the parts of the body that make boys different to girls and can use the correct names for these.

Term 5

Term 6
Relationships Healthy Me + Changing Me

Relationships: Safe Relationships 

  • Recognising privacy
  • Staying safe
  • seeking permission

Health and Wellbeing: Keeping safe

  • How rules and age restrictions help us
  • Keeping safe online

Living in the wider word: Media literacy and digital resilience 

  • Using the internet and digital devices
  • Communicating online 

All Year 1 subjects 

Year 2

Term 1

Term 2
Being Me in My World Celebrating Differences

Protected Characteristics

Living in the wider world: Belonging to a community

  • Belonging to a group
  • roles and responsibilities
  • being the same and different in the community

Relationships: Families and friendships

  • Making friends
  • feeling lonely and getting help

 

Health & Wellbeing: Physical health and mental wellbeing

  • Why sleep is important
  • medicines and keeping healthy
  • keeping teeth healthy 
  • managing feelings and asking for help

Relationships: Respecting ourselves and others

  • Recognising things in common and differences
  • playing and working cooperatively
  • sharing opinions

Term 3

Term 4
Dreams & Goals Changing Me + Healthy Me

Living in the wider world: Money and Work

  • What money is
  • Need and wants
  • Looking after money

Changing Me (JIGSAW Unit)

  • I can recognise the physical differences between boys and girls
  • Use the correct names for parts of the body and know some parts of my body are private

Term 5

Term 6
Relationships Healthy Me + Changing Me

Relationships: Safe relationships

  • Managing secrets
  • Resisting pressure and getting help
  • Recognising hurtful behaviour 

Health and Wellbeing: Keeping safe

  • Safety in different environments
  • Risk and safety at home
  • Emergencies

Living in the wider world: Media literacy and digital resilience

  • The internet in everyday life
  • Online content and information

All Year 2 subjects 

Year 3

Term1

Term 2
Being Me in My World Celebrating Differences

Living in the wider world: Belonging to a community

Protected Characteristics

  • The value of rules and laws
  • Rights, Freedoms and responsibilities 

Relationships: Families and friendships

  • What makes a family
  • Features of family life

Health and Wellbeing: Physical health and Mental wellbeing

  • Health choices and habits
  • What affects feelings
  • Expressing feelings

Relationships: Respecting ourselves and others

  • Recognising respectful behaviour
  • The importance of self-respect
  • Courtesy and being polite

Term 3

Term 4

Dreams and Goals

Living in the wider world: Money and Work

  • Different jobs and skills
  • Job stereotypes
  • Setting personal goals

Changing Me + Healthy Me

Changing Me (JIGSAW Unit)

I can identify how bodies change on the inside and outside during the growing up process and can tell you why these changes are necessary so that their bodies can make babies when they grow up

Term 5

Term 6
Relationships Healthy Me + Changing Me

Relationships: Safe relationships

  • Personal boundaries
  • Safely responding to others
  • The impact of hurtful behaviour

 

Health and Wellbeing: Keeping safe

  • Risks and hazards
  • Safety in the local environment and unfamiliar places
   

All Year 3 subjects 

Year 4

Term 1

Term 2

Being Me in My World

Living in the wider world: Belonging to a community

Protected Characteristics

  • What makes a community
  • shared responsibilities

Relationships: Families and friendships

  • Positive friendships, including online

Celebrating Differences

Health and Wellbeing: Physical health and Mental wellbeing

  • Maintaining a balanced lifestyle
  • Oral hygiene and dental care

Relationships: Respecting ourselves and others

  • Respecting differences and similarities
  • Discussing difference sensitivity

Term 3

Term 4
Dreams & Goals Changing Me + Healthy Me

Living in the wider world: Money and Work

  • Making decisions about money
  • Using and keeping money safe

Changing Me (JIGSAW Unit)

  • I can describe how boys and girls bodies change during puberty
  • I can explain menstruation 

Term 5

Term 6
Relationships Healthy Me + Changing Me

Relationships: Safe relationships

  • Responding to hurtful behaviour
  • Managing confidentiality
  • Recognising risks online

 

Health and Wellbeing: Keeping Safe

  • Medicines and household products
  • Drugs common to everyday life

Living in the wider world: Media literacy and digital resilience 

  • How data is shared and used

All Year 4 subjects 

Year 5

Term 1

Term 2
Being Me in My World Celebrating Differences

Living in the wider world: Belonging to a community

Protected Characteristics

  • Protecting the environment
  • Compassion towards others

Relationships: Families and friendship

  • Managing friendships and peer influence

Health and Wellbeing: Physical health and Mental wellbeing

  • Healthy sleep habits
  • sun safety
  • Medicines
  • Vaccinations, immunisations and allergies

Relationships: Respecting ourselves and others

  • Responding respectfully to a wide range of people
  • Recognising prejudice and discrimination

Term 3

Term 4
Dreams & Goals Changing Me + Healthy Me

Living in the wider world: Money and Work

  • Identifying jobs interests and aspirations
  • What influences career choices
  • workplace stereotypes

 

Changing Me (JIGSAW Unit)

  • I can describe how boys and girls bodies change during puberty
  • I can understand what sexual intercourse is 

Term 5

Term 6
Relationships Healthy Me + Changing Me

Relationships: Safe relationships 

  • Physical contact and feeling safe

Health and Wellbeing: Keeping safe

  • Keeping safe in different situations, including responding in emergencies, first aid and FGM
  • Living in the wider world: Media literacy and digital resilience

All Year 5 subjects

Year 6

Term 1

Term 2
Being Me in My World Celebrating Differences

Living in the wider world: Belonging to a community

Protected Characteristics

  • Valuing diversity
  • Challenging discrimination and stereotypes 

Relationships: Attraction to others

  • Romantic relationships
  • Civil partnerships and marriage

Health and Wellbeing: Physical health and Mental health

  • What affects mental health and ways to take care of it
  • Managing change
  • Loss of bereavement
  • Managing time online

Relationships: Respecting ourselves and others

  • Expressing opinions and respecting other points of view, including discussing topical issues

Term 3

Term 4
Dreams & Goals Changing Me

Living in the wider world: Money and Work

  • Influences and attitudes to money
  • Money and financial risks

Changing Me (JIGSAW Unit)

  • I can describe how a baby develops from conception through the nine months of pregnancy, and how it is born

Term 5

Term 6
Relationships Healthy Me + Changing Me

Relationships: Safe Relationships 

  • Recognising and managing pressure
  • Content in different situations

Health and Wellbeing: Keeping safe

  • Keeping personal information safe
  • Regulations and choices
  • Drug use and the law
  • Drug use and the media

Living in the wider world: Media literacy and digital resilience

  • Evaluating media sources
  • Sharing things online

All Year 6 subjects