"We are dedicated to promoting the rights of every child." Article 2

 

 

PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) is a planned, developmental programme of learning through which children and young people acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to manage their lives now and in the future. As part of a whole-school approach, PSHE education develops the qualities and attributes children’s need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society. It plays a vital role in our school, as we embed it across all subjects and everyday school life. Our PSHE programme of study is based on three core themes within which there is broad overlap and flexibility: Health and Wellbeing, Relationships and Living in the Wider World.

 

We believe it is essential to equip all children to live healthy, safe, productive, capable, responsible and balanced lives. We encourage them to be enterprising and support them in making effective transitions, positive learning and career choices and in achieving economic wellbeing.  As a school, we provide opportunities for children to reflect on and clarify their own values and attitudes and explore the complex and sometimes conflicting range of values and attitudes they encounter now and in the future.

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“Learn for Life”

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The notion that we have a school that develops children into more than a ‘set of results’ is the bedrock of our vision and ethos for Mount Pleasant Primary School . Our school aims to develop children into ‘good citizens’, who will go on to do ‘great things’. Developing children’s character, through positive attitudes, resilience, kindness and care are central to daily life at Mount Pleasant Primary School.

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"You have the right to live and grow." Article 6

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This bedrock encompasses all of school life, but particularly the approach and policies of the school in relation to:

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• Personal, Social, Health, Citizenship and Economic (PSCHE – including Relationships and Sex Education),

• Fundamental British Values

• Behaviour

• Spiritual, Moral, Social and Moral (SMSC) aspects of school life

• Being a Rights Respecting school

• In order to realise this vision, in every day practice and interaction, at Mount Pleasant Primary School, we live by a set of 6 virtues – which are articulated, recognised, lived and taught. These virtues are:

 

         Fairness                              Kindness                              Respect                            Justice                              Calmness                        Resilience

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PSHE education contributes to personal development by helping children to build their confidence, resilience and self-esteem, and to identify and manage risk, make informed choices and understand what influences their decisions. It enables them to recognise, accept and shape their identities, to understand and accommodate difference and change, to manage emotions and to communicate constructively in a variety of settings. Developing an understanding of themselves, empathy and the ability to work with others will help children to form and maintain good relationships, develop the essential skills for future employability and better enjoy and manage their lives.

 

We believe PSHE education can help to reduce or remove many of the barriers to learning experienced by children, significantly improving their capacity to learn and achieve. Our PSHE education programme makes a significant contribution to children’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development (SMSC).  In our school the aim for PSHE education is to provide pupils with:

 

• accurate, balanced and relevant knowledge

• opportunities to turn that knowledge into personal understanding

• opportunities to explore, clarify and if necessary challenge, their own and others’ values, attitudes, beliefs, rights and responsibilities

• the skills, language and strategies they need in order to live healthy, safe, fulfilling, responsible and balanced lives

• opportunities to develop positive personal attributes such as resilience, self-confidence, self-esteem, and empathy

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Subject leader: Mr Dyer

 

Our PSHE programme of study is based on three core themes within which there is broad overlap and flexibility:

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