PSHE
Philosophy
At The Shade Primary School, we use the Cambridgeshire Primary Personal Development Programme to teach PSHE. We aim for all children to master learning skills that bring a love of learning through the 5Rs (Respect, Responsibility, Resilience, Reflective, Ready to learn). The Shade and its community will encourage a caring and respectful attitude, take pride in our roots and celebrate our successes.
All children are offered a thoughtful and wide-ranging curriculum that promotes spiritual moral, social and cultural development and enables them to become lifelong learners. We have tailored our PSHE curriculum to meet the needs of the pupils in our school, embedding the 5Rs within learning.
Aims
Through our PSHE curriculum we will:
- Develop pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development within the promotion of fundamental British values which are at the heart of the school’s work.
- Promote equality of opportunity and diversity exceptionally well, for pupils and staff, so that the ethos and culture of the whole school counters any form of direct or indirect discriminatory behaviour.
- Protect pupils from radicalisation and extremism. We aim to challenge pupils’ views and encourage debate through high quality teaching.
To enrich our PSHE curriculum, we teach weekly Philosophy for Children (P4C) lessons. These sessions aim to develop four specific thinking skills: collaborative, creative, caring and critical thinking. Through a diverse range of stimuli, children are provided with a safe and supportive environment within which they can explore and think about ‘Big Ideas’. We have carefully created a curriculum where P4C themes link with PSHE strands and are enriched with additional diversity and empathy resources.
Alongside P4C, we foster children’s wellbeing and resilience by working through an Empathy Reading Spine, which compliments the PSHE and P4C curriculum giving children opportunity to share and discuss the three elements of empathy: feeling, thinking and acting.