PSHE and RSE at Brook
Our Vision for PSHE:
At Brook, we help children build their resilience, wellbeing and strong, healthy relationships. Our curriculum helps us to embed our School Vision and live our School Values: Care, Courage and Creativity.
We would like all our pupils to have a deep understanding of themselves and their place in our world and use this understanding to build positive healthy relationships, develop personal skills and be responsible for their own care and the care of others and the world.
We would like all our pupils to know and live by what is right and what is wrong with an understanding of mental health and well-being of themselves and others.
Our Curriculum
Our PSHE curriculum is taught explicitly in weekly lessons following our ‘Kapow’ scheme, but also implicitly throughout our entire curriculum, as well as through the personal development of our pupils such as assemblies and enrichment activities. Our curriculum supports the high expectations we hold for behaviour and attitudes and prepares pupils for adult life and engaging with society. Character Education, safeguarding and careers related learning also form part of the curriculum. Our Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) Curriculum is part of PSHE and is taught through our ‘Kapow’ scheme. This covers statutory content for ‘Health and Wellbeing’ and ‘Relationships’. Aspects of ‘Living in the wider world’ are taught through the programme and supplemented through our own curriculum. PSHE is also covered implicitly through other subjects, for example, caring for our environment will come into science and geography learning. Weekly circle times allow pupils the opportunity to talk about aspects of PSHE too.
We make links through our retrieval tasks, looking back at prior units of work to recall key learning. We also link our learning to the fundamental British Values and Protected Characteristics.
In Year 6, pupils are taught aspects of Sex Education relating to conception and birth. Parents are able to withdraw their child from this content.
In Early Years, pupils follow the Kapow scheme as well as objectives through the Development Matters curriculum.
