St Augustine's Catholic Primary School

PSHE

Intent 

At St Augustine’s, PSHE is at the core of what we do and it is underpinned by our mission statement, school rules and Catholic ethos. Our PSHE curriculum helps our children live and learn in a Catholic, Christian environment now and in the future.  PSHE develops the qualities, attributes and strengths that our children need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society. Our PSHE programme aims to equip them for life.  We teach PSHE and RSE using the Ten Ten, Life to the Full Plus programme.

Implementation 

PSHE is taught every week across the school. We use Ten Ten 'Life to the Full' PSHE programme which is a Catholic PSHE and RSE scheme of work. During the year, children will focus on three areas: Created and Loved by God, Created to Love Others, Created to live in the Community.  Each year group will focus on a different aspect of the topic so that children gain a deeper understanding as they progress through the school. 

Links to PSHE are also made across the wider curriculum. Strong links are made to our learning in RE to support the children as Christians.  In addition, PSHE may also be taught as a reaction to an individual or class need when a situation arises. We also engage in national themed weeks and days throughout the year for example; Antibullying Week and Safer Internet Day. Where possible we also use outside agencies to enhance our children’s learning in PSHE for example; Life Bus and NSPCC. 

The children at St Augustine’s are also familiar with the Zones of Regulation. This is a framework that helps them learn how to self-regulate emotionally by categorising emotions and mental states into four types of zones. The children are given the tools to move to the Green Zone (happy zone) and it also provides the classroom staff with an indication of when a child may need additional support if they are in the Red Zone (anger) or Blue Zone (sad).  

IMPACT

The children are given the opportunity to record their thoughts, feelings and responses to the lessons in a journal that goes up through the school with them. The emphasis is on their understanding of the issues and how they might react to different situations. The PSHE lead monitors the impact of the PSHE curriculum through discussion with staff, pupil voice, class journals and learning walks. 

RSE

Life to the Full is a fully resourced Scheme of Work in Relationships and Health Education (RSE) for Catholic primary schools which embraces and fulfils the new statutory curriculum.

Taught with a spiral approach to learning, in which pupils will revisit the same topics at an age-appropriate stage through their school life, the programme includes teaching about personal health, physical and emotional wellbeing, strong emotions, private parts of the body, personal relationships, family structures, trusted adults, growing bodies, life cycles, the dangers of social media, an understanding of the Common Good and living in the wider world. 

The entire teaching is underpinned with a religious understanding that our deepest identity is as a child of God – created chosen and loved by God. The programme is fully inclusive of all pupils and their families.