PSHE is fundamental to the development of individual potential and well-being in all children. PSHE underpins everything that we do at SBRS. It incorporates social literacy, social skills, and spiritual learning. PSHE helps children and young people stay healthy, safe and prepares them with learning essential life skills for independence. PSHE education supports pupils with achieving their academic potential. PSHE encourages our pupils to be enterprising and supports them with making effective transitions, engaging in positive learning, develop positive relationships and learning to manage their finances effectively. It also enables children and young people to reflect on and clarify their own values and attitudes. This helps them to explore the complex and sometimes conflicting range of values and attitudes that they may encounter now and in the future.
SBRS follow and adapt the Jigsaw framework for guidance and resources. This sets out the same theme each half term on a spiral model. It is planned in six themes for the whole academic year across the whole school to ensure optimum coverage and consistent planning for progression throughout the whole school. Delivery of PSHE is timetabled with twice regular weekly sessions led by form tutors with their allocated year group. Evidence of learning is collected through a variety of means including mind maps, group activity observations, and recorded group discussions (for example, this could be responses to scenario-based situations).
| Autumn term | Spring term | Summer term |
| Being me | Dreams and goals | Relationships |
| Celebrating difference | Healthy me | Changing me |
RSE The aims of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) at our school are to:
- Provide a framework in which sensitive discussions can take place
- Prepare pupils for puberty, and give them an understanding of sexual development and the importance of health and hygiene
- Help pupils develop feelings of self-respect, confidence and empathy, and cultivate positive characteristics such as kindness and integrity
- Create a positive culture around issues of sexuality and relationships
- Teach pupils the correct vocabulary to describe themselves and their bodies
As a special needs SEMH school, we must provide Relationships education to all pupils under section 34 of the Children and Social Work Act 2017. We follow the National curriculum guidelines however we are not required to provide sex education, but we do need to teach the elements of sex education contained within the science curriculum.
At SBRS our RSE related topics will be taught through regular timetabled PSHE sessions in year form groups. Opportunities will be made to link assemblies and workshops including the school nursing team and local police to support the delivery of RSE topics.