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At St Bartholomew’s C of E Primary, PSHE is at the heart of our ethos and our curriculum enables pupils to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to become happy and healthy members of our community. Our whole school approach to PSHE provides pupils with the early building blocks to allow them to succeed and thrive, both in the next step of their academic journey and within their future life in modern Britain. We believe that these building blocks, with a particular focus on mental health and wellbeing, provide a foundation to empower children to feel safe and happy and achieve across the curriculum and in their future lives.
Our PSHE curriculum is based on the You, Me and PSHE scheme, which covers many topics such as keeping safe and managing risk, mental health and wellbeing and physical health. This is supplemented with resources from other organisations, for example NSPCC, NHS Every Mind Matters and MindMate. We follow a spiral curriculum, with key topics revisited at an age appropriate level, which meets the statutory RSE requirements and is in line with the National Curriculum. We want our PSHE curriculum to enable children to feel safe and confident, be able to identify and manage risk and develop the knowledge and skills to lead a physically and mentally healthy life.
At St Bartholomew’s, we understand the importance of PSHE and promote it throughout school. We aim to create a safe and happy learning environment for all pupils, where they can speak openly and access further support if needed. Pupils in KS2 complete the My Health My School survey to share their views and this is used to develop our curriculum and ensure it is led by the needs of the children. We also strive to provide our diverse mix of pupils with engaging events and experiences linked to our PSHE curriculum through themed weeks, workshops and visitors from members of our community.
Curriculum - PSHE - Key Documents
Curriculum - PSHE - Useful Links
Curriculum - PSHE - Mindmate Mental Health Workshop
The year 6 children in class 14 have taken part in a Mindmate mental health workshop called Flippin your lid. The workshop looked at how to recognise, process and deal with negative emotions. They were taught numerous strategies to help calm down.
Curriculum - PSHE - Anti-Bullying Week
All of school celebrated Anti-bullying week by wearing odd socks. The meaning behind this is that it is good to be different!
Curriculum - PSHE - Anti Bullying Workshop
Class 9 really enjoyed their anti-bullying workshop with Andy. We started our workshop by showing different emotions with our bodies and facial expressions, before thinking about what bullying is, as well as what it isn’t. We found our that bullying is something negative and hurtful that happens regularly and on purpose.
Curriculum - PSHE - PCSO Visit
Our Community Police Offices came to visit Reception to talk to us about how to be safe around the time of Bonfire night and Halloween.
Curriculum - PSHE - Classroom Kitchen
Before half term break we had a Classroom Kitchen workshop. The children enjoyed chopping fruit and making their own fruit cups using fruit from a story 'Handa's surprise'. They have also mashed avocado to make their own guacamole.
Curriculum - PSHE - Anti Racism Day
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The whole school have been learning about racism. Pupils wore red to show their support for the day.
Curriculum - PSHE - Responsibility
In PSHE this week, we have been learning about responsibility. We then drew a picture of ourselves being responsible.
Curriculum - PSHE - Smoking Discussion
Today we discussed reasons why people might start smoking. We talked about peer pressure and learnt behaviour. We acted out scenarios to show ways we can avoid risks.
Curriculum - PSHE - Alcohol Abuse
In PSHE, we used our oracy skills and talk tokens to discuss alcohol abuse: the risks, how it affects the person, and how others in their family might be affected too. We discussed in circle groups first, and then fed back as a whole class group.
Curriculum - PSHE - Smoking
Today we made posters to warn people about the dangers of smoking. We tried to encourage people to stop or not to start in the first place. We included health risks and physical changes that can happen to our bodies if we smoke.
Curriculum - PSHE - Alcohol & Drugs
In PSHE, we have continued our topic on alcohol and drugs. This week, the children came up with their own drug related scenario and came up with ideas on how they would lower the risk of the situation. They then acted these out to the class.
Curriculum - PSHE - Road Safety & The Green Cross Code
Year two worked hard understanding road safety. The children then went out and followed the green cross code to cross the road safely. Everyone did a great job at crossing the road safely.
Curriculum - PSHE - Road Safety
Here are some of the children of class 10 busy learning pedestrian road safety skills on the streets of Armley yesterday. Everyone scored full marks in the final road crossing assessment - Well done class 10!
Curriculum - PSHE - Different Types of Drugs
In our first PSHE lesson, class 16 looked at different drugs, they researched in groups and presented information to the rest of the class.
Curriculum - PSHE - Internet Safety Booklets
For the last couple of weeks, class 13 have been discussing online safety and the risks of being online. The children have then completed online safety booklets to remind them how to be safe in various circumstances. These booklets will be coming home with your child so they always have them to refer to.
Curriculum - PSHE - My Health My School Survey
Years 5 and 6 are completing their My Health My School Surveys. The survey provides children with an opportunity to answer questions about their health and well-being and what they think of school. We will be collating results and sharing results with children in the Autumn Term. The survey results will give us an opportunity to think about how we can make things better for everyone.
Curriculum - PSHE - Internet Safety
Class 7 have learnt about staying safe on the internet. They learnt to be SMART. Stay safe by not passing on personal information. Meet, never meet someone you have been chatting to online. Accepting, don’t accept all files, some could have viruses. Reliable, don’t believe that everything you read is true. Tell, tell a trusted adult if something upsets you or makes you worried.
Class 9 completed an activity booklet to show off everything they know about being safe online.
Curriculum - PSHE - Water Safety
Class 13 have started safety week by looking at the dangers in water.
Curriculum - PSHE - Occupations
Today we drew pictures of what we thought people in certain jobs would look like. We looked at scientists, nurses, footballers and beauticians. We discussed that anyone with the correct skills and ambition can do each of these roles. We also discussed things that separate us from our stereotypes.
Curriculum - PSHE - First Aid (The Recovery Position)
Today in class 12 we continued to look at first aid and took it in turns to put each other in the recovery position.
Curriculum - PSHE - Keeping Safe
In PSHE this half term, class 11 have been learning about how to keep safe in a variety of situations. Today we have found out what to do if we find out someone need help. We talked about who we would call and what number we would use in certain scenarios. The children discussed this in pairs and time played the situation.
Curriculum - PSHE - Delivering CPR
Year 6 continued learning about first aid in PSHE. Children watched a video on how first aid is administered by lifeguards on Bondi Beach. They then discussed how defibrillators are used in an emergency. Children then discussed with Mr Middleton what they would have to do if they had to deliver CPR to someone. Children then practised on a dummy.
Curriculum - PSHE - Calling 999
Today we looked dialling 999. - how to do it from various devices, what counts as an emergency situation and what we might say on a call. We simulated calls between each other to practice what we would say.
Curriculum - PSHE - First Aid Training
In PSHE, class 10 have been learning about first aid this week. We have learned the difference between burns and scalds and have memorised the steps to take if somebody suffers one. We then practiced bandaging each other using cling film.
Curriculum - PSHE - Teddy Bear Hospital
This week we had an exciting visit from the Teddy Bear Hospital. We got to learn all about the role of doctors and look at their equipment. We also looked at food that is healthy and unhealthy for us, and how to properly brush our teeth.
Curriculum - PSHE - Medicine
In class 6, we had an oracy session in PSHE. We were learning all about who should give us medicine, and worked in groups to discuss different scenarios. We focused on the Linguistic strand, giving reasons why we had different ideas. We used talk tokens to make sure everyone had the chance to share their ideas.
Curriculum - PSHE - Build, Challenge, Clarify
Year 6 children in class 15 spent time developing their oracy skills - using build, challenge and clarify. Children had to discuss different scenarios and how people would feel.
Curriculum - PSHE - Anti-Racism Award
This week, we introduced the children to an exciting award St Bart’s is going for: the anti-racism award. We had lots of discussion, watched videos and discussed scenarios. The children then made their own posters and pledges.
Curriculum - PSHE - HMP Not for Me (Class 13)
This week class 13 had a fantastic day with Mick completing HMP Not For Me! Watch the videos to find out more!
