Primrose Lane Primary School

Personal Social Health & Economic Education

(PSHE)

We teach PSHE with the intent of empowering our pupils to develop essential life skills, critical thinking abilities, and emotional intelligence. Our goal is to cultivate responsible, respectful citizens who are capable of making informed decisions, understanding societal issues, and maintaining their physical and mental wellbeing. Through our PSHE curriculum, we aspire to instil in our pupils the values of empathy, tolerance, and resilience. By embedding the principles of respect, responsibility, and understanding of diversity within our PSHE curriculum, we aim to nurture well-rounded individuals who are equipped to thrive in a diverse society.

At Primrose Lane, we use the You, Me, PSHE curriculum as the basis for our PSHE lessons which extend learning beyond the academic, providing children with the necessary skills and knowledge to navigate moral and cultural issues prevalent in today's society. We believe in fostering a deep understanding that difference and diversity are not negatives, but rather traits that make individuals unique.

PSHE is delivered in seven key strands that are revisited each year, allowing for the extension of knowledge, deepening of understanding, and development of essential skills. These strands are:

Sex and Relationship Education (SRE)

Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Education (DATE)

Keeping Safe and Managing Risk

Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing

Physical Health and Wellbeing

Careers Financial Capability & Economic Wellbeing

Identity, Society, and Equality

We supplement the You, Me, PSHE curriculum with lessons from MindMate, emphasising the importance of good mental health. In addition, each year group has lessons incorporating videos from Diversity Role Models to help children comprehend protected characteristics in an age-appropriate manner. From nursery to year six, our clearly outlined curriculum supports the holistic personal development of every child, ensuring that each child receives a comprehensive and progressive PSHE education. British Values are taught discretely during lessons where appropriate and revisited during whole school assemblies.

We teach our children to make healthy choices and talk often about why maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle supports our physical and mental health. Through the use of MindMate lessons and planned social and emotional lessons we support our children to develop strategies to keep their minds and bodies healthy, skills that we know will support them into adulthood. Through carefully chosen assemblies, visitors and trips we support our children to understand how the choices they make can affect themselves and others.

Curriculum Documents

PSHE Curriculum Document

PSHE Long Term Plan

PSHE at Primrose Lane

Year 5 workshop on resilience.

Year 5 were fortunate enough to experience a Mindmate workshop all about resilience, led by Educational Mental Health Practitioners Nicola and Dora.

The session started with a talk about the NHS and the importance of everybody looking after their own health.

We then discussed the question: What is resilience?

Ciaran - bouncing back from hardships. Bethany L - if things get hard, don’t give up!

We played the flamingo game - where we all had to stand on one leg without wobbling for as long as possible; then discussed how this demonstrated our resilience levels.

We then discussed the dreaded ‘Brain Bully’ and how negative thoughts in our heads can be detrimental to us, but can help us build resilience, if we use the right strategies. We discussed a range of strategies and how to counteract the Brain Bully! We then drew our own version of our Brain Bully and created a mind map of strategies we could use when our Brain Bully tries to stop us from achieving!

We played a ‘Fact or opinion’ game, where Nicola said that her Brain Bully told her that she is too short to play basketball. Children decided themselves and picked a side as to whether that was fact or opinion. Some children thought that the rules in basketball meant that you had to be a certain height and therefore this wasn’t a Brain Bully. Others thought it was nonsense and that anybody can play basketball.

A video presented by Harry Kane explained about his journey of resilience and how many ‘knock-backs’ he’d had, how many times his Brain Bully had told him to give up, but how he persevered and his resilience has paid off having joined excellent football clubs, captained his country, won golden boots and even won his first competitive club trophy this year!

We then played the Flamingo game again, but this time, had the opportunity of supporting each other, which demonstrated that you don’t have to do things on your own to counteract a Brain Bully, but others can support to make it easier!

We left with the message: ‘Recognise your brain bully, challenge it and practise resilience in your own way to help you!’

Wellbeing Day

We have enjoyed Wellbeing Week, where we have meditated, experienced yoga poses and drawn some calming images reflecting us and our lives. Additionally, the older children in Key Stage 2 had a visitor into school to teach us about 'Promoting Good Health', teaching us about microbes, bacteria, viruses etc, and how to prevent the spread of these.

Mindfulness Day

The children took part in 4 different workshops during the afternoon.

What a positively amazing afternoon, all the children where fully engaged and had lots of fun. We started off by talking about what makes us happy followed by a story.

We shouted out the affirmations which they loved watch the videos very adorable. We then decorated some tiles with what makes us happy, and then ended with a feeling's song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J7HcVLsCrY

The children also did some mindfulness painting. Thinking about their feelings when their feelings are hurt and what we can do to make us feel better. We also had the experience of running around in our bare feet and feeling the grass and mud between our toes!