Personal, Social & Health Education
What is PSHE?
At Holly Grove Primary Academy, we believe that PSHE and RSHE equip our children with the understanding, knowledge and skills they will need to succeed and thrive. Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) is a non-statutory subject in which pupils are taught skills and subject knowledge which will help to support them in their own lives, relationships and communities. Relationships and Health Education is a statutory component of the curriculum in Primary Schools from September 2020. Relationships Education involves learning about many strands including: family relationships; friendships and relationships with peers and adults; healthy and unhealthy relationships; staying safe; the characteristics of positive relationships; relationships online and the emotional, social and physical aspects of growing up. Health Education covers healthy lifestyles, first aid, mental health, hygiene and puberty.
Teaching about relationships enables our pupils to safely negotiate making new friendships; recognise potential threats to their wellbeing and personal safety; develop meaningful relationships with others throughout their lives; and know how to keep themselves safe and healthy. We also believe that a complete PSHE and RSHE curriculum is important, despite these not being a statutory requirement, to ensure that pupils have a well-rounded and rich curriculum covering a range of life skills as well as financial education and social education, learning about being part of a community and about social issues which affect their local area, nation and the whole world.
Aims
The purpose of the PSHE curriculum is to provide all pupils with opportunities to:
- Develop confidence and responsibility and make the most of their abilities
- Prepare to play an active role as citizens through developing skills for living and valuing themselves and respecting others
- Develop a healthy lifestyle
- Contribute to their community and the wider world and becoming morally and socially responsible
- Develop good relationships and respect the differences between people
How PSHE links with our Torch Values
holly grove torch values in pshe.pdf
What our children say about PSHE
Intent
Our PSHE curriculum aims to develop children's life long learning skills, ensuring they build awareness, understanding and knowledge as they become citizens of the future. Please click here to see our PSHE intent.
Implementation
The document below shows a planned teaching sequence that a unit of PSHE lessons may follow in order to promote the sequential and progressive development of knowledge which can be securely demonstrated by our pupils.
What you can expect to see in a PSHE unit of work
What you can expect to see in a PSHE lesson
Our PSHE Curriculum
To ensure children are taught and remember the appropriate knowledge and skills relating to PSHRE, we have created a whole school progressive breakdown of the National Curriculum expectations, this draws on the skills and knowledge being taught across all subject areas and hopes to contribute to the development of key concepts and themes in a deep and connected way.
Knowledge and Skills Grid - KS1 and KS2 (Key Vocabulary Included)
Knowledge and Skills Grid - EYFS (Key Vocabulary Included)
My Life KS1 curriculum matching chart
My Life Lower KS2 curriculum matching chart
My Life Upper KS2 curriculum matching chart
School Council
Our New School Council Has Been Elected!
We are delighted to announce that our School Pupil Council for this year has now been officially elected! Children from Year 1 all the way up to Year 6 took part, making this a truly whole‑school democratic event.
Over the past week, pupils who wished to stand as candidates prepared thoughtful speeches and presented them to their year groups. They spoke confidently about the changes they would like to make, the ideas they could bring, and how they would represent their classmates. It was wonderful to see how much time, care and ambition the children put into their speeches.
Their peers demonstrated our Torch Values brilliantly by listening respectfully, valuing each other’s opinions, and showing support for every candidate. Although we would have loved to choose everyone, the children understood that each pupil had one vote — just like in real elections — and they were encouraged to choose the person they felt would represent them best.
To make the experience meaningful, we used voting slips and ballot boxes and talked about British Values and the democratic process in our country, including how MPs and officials are elected. The children showed great maturity in discussing fairness, representation, and making informed choices.
After counting the votes, the candidates with the most support were elected as this year’s School Council representatives. We are incredibly proud of every child who took part — whether they stood as a candidate or participated by voting. You all helped make this a fantastic learning experience.
Congratulations to our newly elected councillors! We are excited to see the positive ideas, changes, and leadership you will bring to our school this year.
PSHE at Holly Grove
Take a look at all the fantastic learning the has been taking place in PSHE across the school
All year 6 thoroughly enjoyed the police cadet sessions and we even had a few children decide on their future careers.
KS1 Building their Beanstalks!
