PSHE

PSHE CURRICULUM STATEMENT

INTENT

The PSHE curriculum at Somerford Primary School aims to help children navigate everyday challenges like friendships, emotional wellbeing, mental health and change, providing a strong foundation to face future uncertainties with confidence. The curriculum supports their wellbeing and emotional health, preparing them for academic success. The goal is to help our children understand themselves and the wider world, so they leave school with a strong sense of identity, not just academic skills.

IMPLEMENTATION

We teach PSHE using SCARF (Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship), a comprehensive programme designed as a high-quality, inspiring curriculum that builds essential life skills through thematic units and a spiral learning approach. The scheme works on the 6 key themes of: ‘Me and my Relationships’, ‘Valuing Difference’, ‘Keeping Safe’, ‘Rights and Respect’, ‘Being my Best’ and ‘Growing and Changing’ as well as the statutory aspects of the Relationships and Sex Education, and Health Education guidance. The SCARF programme helps children develop vocabulary, confidence, and resilience to express themselves in a supportive environment. It promotes openness, trust, respect, and knowing when to seek help. SCARF supports physical and mental health, self-care, and social responsibility, while also addressing barriers to learning, boosting self-esteem, and supporting overall development and safeguarding. It equips pupils with key skills for success in school and life. Lessons are delivered weekly and use creative methods like role play, music, and discussion to develop confidence, resilience, curiosity, and responsibility. Whilst the SCARF scheme fully caters for our cohort of children, some additional resources may be used to ensure that key knowledge is achieved for each year group. 

Beyond the SCARF lessons, our PSHE curriculum includes mental health initiatives with Wellbeing Ambassadors in Y4-6, Anti-Bullying Ambassadors in Y5-6, Worry Boxes in all classes, Stormbreak sessions, targeted pastoral support and a focus on British Values in class as well as in assemblies. Children needing extra support with their personal and social learning will have sessions in the Forest Den where they will learn skills such as turn-taking, understanding the needs of others and keeping themselves safe, under the guidance and supervision of our SENCO.

IMPACT

The PSHE Curriculum works to support our school’s values of Enjoy, Achieve and Aspire by helping the children to understand and value how they, and others, fit into an ever-changing world.

Our children will:

• Have an awareness of theirs and other’s physical and emotional needs.
• Have the skills to interact effectively with others.
• Be responsible for and understand their health needs.
• Understand the world in which we live.
• Understand British Values.
• Express that they are happy at school and will be able to explain why attendance at school is important.
• Be able to explain strategies that they can use to help them manage their emotions and behaviour.

Children will be aware that what they do outside and inside school is to be celebrated; and that learning does not start and end at the classroom. Successes in all areas of school life and learning will be shared in weekly Celebration Assembly.

We monitor the impact of our PSHE and RSE provision through termly teacher assessments, lesson observations, pupil voice discussions and PSHE and RSE evidence in children’s PSHE books.