PHSE including SRE

PSHE

Intent

At Bretherton Endowed C of E Primary School, our Personal, Social, Health Education permeates the whole curriculum and is intrinsically linked to our Christian values and Gospel teachings. We consider PSHE to be a vital ingredient to every child’s success and happiness. We believe it can really improve each child’s capacity to learn and remove barriers to learning. Personal, Social, Health and relationship education at Bretherton is planned to develop character through fostering a sense of pride at belonging to our school family, our community and as a citizen of the UK and the world.

Thinking Classrooms Metacognition

Although our PSHE is based around our scheme, Jigsaw, we ensure our PSHE provision is bespoke for our children's needs and is always adapting to meet these.

This year we are excited to introduce our children and families to develoing 'thinking classrooms and a thinking school' through metacognition.

Metacognition and self-regulation are about children thinking about thinking, knowing what learning means and taking charge of their own learning. Even at this young age, with consistent modelling from all adults, the children are able to think about themselves as learners. We believe that getting children to focus upon themselves as learners improves their achievement.

In order to be metacognitive and to be able to self-regulate, children need to know, and be able to use, a set of learning dispositions. The learning dispositions are represented as 5 Learning Powers, through the use of The Learning Jungle.

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Each learning power is represented by an animal from the learning jungle which has certain behaviours and attributes associated with it.

The learning powers are:

to concentrate
to be resilient
to be curious
to co-operate
to self improve.

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The learning powers, the learning jungle and each of the animals are introduced to the children through worship and a series of PSHE lessons. The adults within each class make the vocabulary explicit to the children and model each power and its associated behaviours. Each class also has a set of soft toys that each relate to each of the learning powers and help the children understand how they learn in a enjoyable and child centred way.

Teaching and Learning

This is taught through the Jigsaw Programme as well as through other areas- for example pupil voice groups, worship and assemblies, volunteering, charity work, community involvement, trips and visitors and careers and financial education.

We primarily use the Jigsaw Programme as it offers us a comprehensive, carefully thought-through Scheme of Work which brings consistency and progression to our children’s learning in this vital curriculum area.

The overview of the programme can be seen below. This also supports the “Personal Development” and “Behaviour and Attitude” aspects required under the Ofsted Inspection Framework, as well as significantly contributing to the school’s Safeguarding and Equality Duties, charities and volunteering, the Government’s British Values agenda and the SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social, Cultural) development opportunities provided for our children.

Along with following our scheme of work, we also pride ourselves on meeting our classes individual needs. Teachers regularly adapt or plan in additional lessons to meet the changing needs or priorities of our children. We also enrich our PSHE curriculum with a variety of outside agengies and visitors to ensure our children receive the most up to date and specialist teaching. This includes enlisting the NSPCC to support us when teaching us to 'Speak Out and Stay Safe', the Debt Awareness Programme and inviting parents into school to talk about their jobs during Careers Week. PHSE embeds concepts and knowledge on British Values and on protected characteristics and where this is taught in our curriculum.

Subject focus area 2025/26

OUR JIGSAW SCHEME

By adopting the 'Jigsaw' scheme to support our teaching of PSHE, we have ensured that we have a consistent and progressive appraoch to the subject throughout school. Kindly bought for us by the trustees, Jigsaw is a mindful approach to PSHE which brings together Personal, Social, Health Education, emotional literacy, social skills and spiritual development in a comprehensive scheme of learning. If children feel overwhelmed emotionally, carry worries and feel unable to talk about or process them, then this can have a real effect on their learning and achievement.

With soft toy Jigsaw-piece friends and Jerry the cat (to help us ‘paws’ for thought and encourage thinking times) allocated to each class, as well as calming chimes to encourage mindfulness, the scheme offers continuity through the years that the children can grow and develop with.

Each the year we will be covering the six jigsaw pieces:

Being Me in My World
Celebrating Difference (including anti-bullying)
Dreams and Goals
Healthy Me
Relationships
Changing Me (including Sex Education)

Each of these will begin with a whole school worship and then continue with work in class which will be celebrated by weekly Jigsaw ceertificates in our Friday Assembly.

PHSE teaching and learning through Jigsaw includes the teaching of British Values and protected characteristics in an age appropriate way. In terms of content, the Puzzle ‘Celebrating Difference’ is the most pertinent of units for teaching about the protected characteristics, as it focuses on similarities and differences and teaches about
diversity, such as disability, racism, gender, family composition, friendships, and conflict. Children learn to accept everyone’s right to ‘difference’, and most year groups explore the concept of ‘normal’. Bullying – what it is and what it isn’t, including cyber and homophobic bullying – is an important aspect of this Puzzle.
The ‘Relationships’ Puzzle also has a wide focus, looking at diverse topics such as families, friendships, equality in relationships, and love and loss – all of which can help to deliver the vital messages behind the Equality Act. A vital part of this Puzzle is about safeguarding and keeping children safe; this links to cyber safety and social networking, as well as attraction and assertiveness; children learn how to deal with conflict, their own strengths and self-esteem. They have the chance to explore roles and responsibilities in families and look at stereotypes. All Jigsaw lessons are delivered in an age- and stage-appropriate way so that they meet pupils’ needs and can help them understand
the wider world. The content for both is carefully mapped.

Relationships & Sex Education

An important part of the Jigsaw PSHE programme is delivered through the 'Relationships' and 'Changing Me' puzzle pieces, which are covered in the summer term.

There are four main aims of teaching RSE:

• To enable children to understand and respect their bodies
• To help children develop positive and healthy relationships appropriate to their age and development
• To support children to have positive self-esteem and body image
• To empower them to be safe and safeguarded

Each year group will be taught appropriate to their age and developmental stage.

Below is a summary of RSE coverage within the Jigsaw scheme for each year group:

• Foundation Stage - Growing up: how we have changed since we were babies
• Year 1 - Boys’ and girls’ bodies; naming body parts
• Year 2 - Boys’ and girls’ bodies; body parts and respecting privacy (which parts of the body are private and why this is)
• Year 3 - How babies grow and how boys’ and girls’ bodies change as they grow older
• Year 4 - Internal and external reproductive body parts, body changes in girls and menstruation
• Year 5 - Puberty for boys and girls, and conception
• Year 6 - Puberty for boys and girls and understanding conception to birth of a baby

We consult our parents every two years regarding the curriculum content and send a letter each year before teaching inviting parents to review the content and contact us if they have any questions. There are direct links in some areas of RSE with our science curriclum. We may adapt the coverage to meet the needs of the class; especially as we have a 2 year rolling programme and want to ensure all children are confident and progress well in their understanding of relationship education.

Mrs Allchurch- PSHE and SRE Subject Lead

Our launch/ welcome assembly can be found here: https://youtu.be/MEGpR7m2pm0

Information about the resource can be found : https://www.jigsawpshe.com/