PSHE Matrix
At St Aidan’s Church of England Primary Academy, we use SCARF, a comprehensive scheme of work for PSHE and Wellbeing education. Our PSHE education promotes positive behaviour, good mental health and wellbeing, resilience and achievement, helping children to stay safe online, develop healthy and safe relationships, making sense of media messages, challenging extreme views and having the skills and attributes to negotiate and assert themselves now and in the future. Our curriculum aims to help our pupils understand how they are developing personally and socially, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up in Mill Hill and the local area.
The school’s PSHE provision supports the school’s aims of developing confident citizens and successful learners who are creative, resourceful and able to identify and solve problems. The social and emotional development of pupils is embedded throughout the entire school’s curriculum and culture. The school has a powerful combination of a planned thematic PSHE program, built around a spiral curriculum of recurring themes, designed to:
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Give pupils the knowledge and develop the self-esteem, confidence and self-awareness to make informed choices and decisions;
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Encourage and support the development of social skills and social awareness;
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Enable pupils to make sense of their own personal and social experiences;
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Promote responsible attitudes towards the maintenance of good physical and mental health, supported by a safe and healthy lifestyle;
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Enable effective interpersonal relationships and develop a caring attitude towards others;
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Encourage a caring attitude towards and responsibility for the environment;
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Help our pupils understand and manage their feelings, build resilience and be independent, curious problem solvers;
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Understand how society works and the laws, rights and responsibilities involved.
We know there is a proven link between pupils' health and wellbeing, and their academic progress. Crucial skills and positive attitudes developed through comprehensive Personal, Social, Health and Economic education are critical to ensuring children are effective learners. The curriculum aims to help learners understand how they are developing personally and socially, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up in Mill Hill and the local area.
We provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. Our children are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.
The intent of our PSHE curriculum is to deliver a curriculum which is accessible to all and that will maximise the outcomes for every child so that they know more, question more, remember more and understand more.
As a result of this they will become healthy, independent and responsible members of our society who understand how they are developing personally and socially.
We want our PSHE curriculum to give our children the confidence to tackle many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up in our area. We provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society.
Our children are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.
Each half term topic in the scheme incorporates activities to establish the starting point of learners and assess progress.
The topics included are:
- Me and My Relationships
- Valuing Differences
- Keeping Myself Safe
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Being My Best
- Growing and Changing
The British Values are interwoven within our carefully devised scheme of work to become an embedded learning thread that is at the heart of all we do.
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