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The Winchcombe School

Improving As One

PSHE

What is our Philosophy?

At The Winchcombe School it is our ambition to ensure that all children acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to manage their lives, now and in the future.

In our PSHE curriculum, we aim to equip children with a secure understanding of risk and the ability to make safe and informed decisions, to be healthy and to have aspirations for their futures. Children are empowered to learn now and improve their life chances later as we help them to develop personal awareness, tolerance and belief. This enables them to observe their own emotions and feelings, regulate them and make conscious decisions about their learning, behaviour and lives.

What is taught?

At The Winchcombe School our PHSE curriculum is taught through the Jigsaw scheme. Jigsaw is a whole school approach which enables children to learn about the same theme throughout the year whilst celebrating the cultural diversity of the Winchcombe Community.

Autumn Term 1:       Being Me in My World

Autumn Term 2:       Celebrating Difference

Spring Term 1:         Dreams and Goals

Spring Term 2:         Healthy Me

Summer Term 1:     Relationships

Summer Term 2:     Changing Me

Through our PSHE teaching we connect PSHE Education, emotional literacy, social skills and spiritual development. It is strongly underpinned by our school values and is threaded through subjects.

How is it taught?

At The Winchcombe School our PHSE curriculum is taught weekly.

How is progress measured?

Progress is measured around the following aspects:

  • Physical
  • Social
  • Health
  • Emotional

What does success look like at The Winchcombe School?

By the end of Year 6 children will:

  • Make healthy lifestyle choices.
  • Understand their place in the class, school and global community.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of diversity and anti-bullying.
  • Set goals, having aspirations and working together.
  • Understand friendship, family and other relationships, conflict resolution and communication skills.
  • Keep themselves safe, focusing on safe relationships, drugs and alcohol.
  • Maintain a positive self-esteem and improve their confidence.

 

Please see the letter below (also available to download) explaining in more depth the RSE taught to each year group.

Dear Parents and Carers

I am writing to advise you that all children will be studying aspects of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in Term 6. We use the Jigsaw PSHE scheme of work, for all aspects of PSHE education. We will therefore be teaching lessons taken from this scheme for RSE. The overall topic for all children in the school is called ‘Changing Me’.

 

Below is a summary of topic areas covered by each year group.

 

Year Group

Learning Objectives

FS

D4 - Seek out others to share experiences. Show affection and concern for people who are special to them

D6 - Explain own knowledge and understanding, and ask

appropriate questions of others

ELG - Show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings

1

Identify the parts of the body that make boys different to girls and use the correct names for these

Respect my body and understand which parts are private

2

Recognise the physical differences between boys and girls, use the correct names for parts of the body and appreciate that some parts of my body are private

Tell you what I like/don’t like about being a boy/girl

3

Understand that in animals and humans lots of changes happen between conception and growing up, and that usually it is the female who has the baby

Express how I feel when I see babies or baby animals

Understand how babies grow and develop in the mother’s uterus and understand what a baby needs to live and grow

Express how I might feel if I had a new baby in my family

Understand that boys’ and girls’ bodies need to change so that when they grow up their bodies can make babies

Identify how boys’ and girls’ bodies change on the outside during this growing up process

Recognise how I feel about these changes happening to me and know how to cope with these feelings

Identify how boys’ and girls’ bodies change on the inside during the growing up process and why these changes are necessary so that their bodies can make babies when they grow up

Recognise how I feel about these changes happening to me and how to cope with these feelings

4

Correctly label the internal and external parts of male and female bodies that are necessary for making a baby

Understand that having a baby is a personal choice and express how I feel about having children when I am an adult

Describe how a girl’s body changes in order for her to be able to have babies when she is an adult, and that menstruation (having periods) is a natural part of this

Know that I have strategies to help me cope with the physical and emotional changes I will experience during puberty

5

Explain how a girl’s body changes during puberty and understand the importance of looking after myself physically and emotionally

Understand that puberty is a natural process that happens to everybody and that it will be OK for me

Describe how boys’ and girls’ bodies change during puberty

Express how I feel about the changes that will happen to me during puberty

Understand that sexual intercourse can lead to conception and that is how babies are usually made

Understand that sometimes people need IVF to help them have a baby

Appreciate how amazing it is that human bodies can reproduce in these ways

6

Explain how girls’ and boys’ bodies change during puberty and understand the importance of looking after myself physically and emotionally

Express how I feel about the changes that will happen to me during puberty

Ask the questions I need answered about changes during puberty

Reflect on how I feel about asking the questions and about the answers I receive

Describe how a baby develops from conception through the nine months of pregnancy, and how it is born

Recognise how I feel when I reflect on the development and birth of a baby

Understand how being physically attracted to someone changes the nature of the relationship

Express how I feel about the growing independence of becoming a teenager and am confident that I can cope with this

 

 

If you require further information about the content of RSE, including a copy of the RSE policy and

scheme of work, then please contact you class teacher. You are also welcome to view the

materials used, should you wish to.

 

You do have the right to withdraw your child, if you choose, in writing, although aspects that are also a part of the science curriculum are compulsory.

 

We believe that our programme is very sensitive and it has been welcomed by parents in previous

years.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Miss N Grove

PSHE Lead