Our intent is a PSHE curriculum which develops learning and results in the acquisition of knowledge and skills.

It enables children to access the wider curriculum and to prepare children to be a global citizen now and in their future roles within a global community.

To design a curriculum with appropriate subject knowledge, skills and understanding to fulfil the new PSHE three strands health and wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world. Relationship and Sex Education will be taught in line with the Jigsaw scheme of work.

• Children will have accurate and relevant knowledge of PSHE.
• Children will have opportunities to create personal understanding.
• Children will be given the opportunities to explore and challenge a range of values, attitudes, beliefs, rights and responsibilities.
• Children will develop an arrangement of skills and strategies to live a healthy, safe, fulfilling, responsible and balanced life.
   

Implementation

The school curriculum will focus on three core learning themes: health and wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world. The scheme of work also includes opportunities to link British Values, Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) and schools key skills into the curriculum. Children have access to key knowledge, language and meanings in order to understand PSHE and to use it across the wider curriculum. Working class journals in each classroom exemplify the terminology used throughout the teaching of PSHE, British Values and SMSC which enables pupils to make links
across the wider curriculum. Whole school, Key Stage and class assemblies always make a link to PSHE, British Values and SMSC.
 

Impact

Children will demonstrate and apply the British Values of Democracy, Tolerance, Mutual respect, Rule of law and Liberty. Children will demonstrate a healthy outlook towards school – attendance will be inline with national and behaviour will be good. Children will achieve age-related expectations across the wider curriculum.

Another addition to our PSHE umbrella is the tool my Happymind - a well-being program proven to have excellent results within both primary and secondary schools.

myHappymind was created for schools with a very simple mission: to give today’s children the skills to thrive in tomorrow’s world. The programmes give children the preventative strategies, skills and tools they need to thrive in the modern world.

 

This science-backed programme for schools is grounded in the latest science and research about what it takes to create positive wellbeing for our children at Co-op Academy Portland.

It’s taught to every single child and there’s a curriculum for every year group from Early Years to Year 6. We also using the staff wellbeing programme and during the Spring 2025 term, we will be introducing Parent App too - presenting it to our parents during their parents' evening - we will show them how to set up the app on their devices as well as how to navigate the site.

 

The PSHE Subject Lead is Mrs Patrick.