PSHE Scheme of Work

PSHE-RHSE Curriculum map 2024-25

At Porter Croft we have adopted the agreed Sheffield RSHE scheme of work which has been developed in accordance with Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education Statutory Guidance 2019 and the PSHE Association scheme.

This Scheme of Work is progressive and is split into the three core themes of Relationships, Living in the Wider World and Health and Wellbeing. ‘Relationships’ is further divided into the strands of Family and Friends. ‘Living in the Wider World’ is split into the strands of Our Communities and Online Safety and ‘Wellbeing’ is divided into the three strands of Mental Wellbeing, Physical Health and Growing Up. Each of the strands is taught in every year group over the course of an academic year.

Through relationships education, we teach pupils the knowledge they need to recognise and to report abuse. This is delivered by focusing on boundaries and privacy, ensuring that our children understand that they have rights over their own bodies. We teach pupils to seek advice when they suspect or know that something is wrong.

In terms of health education, children are taught about the characteristics of good physical health and mental wellbeing. Pupils are taught about the benefits and importance of daily exercise, good nutrition and sufficient sleep, they are provided with the language and knowledge to understand the normal range of emotions that everyone experiences. Children are also taught to articulate how they are feeling, and to develop the language to talk about their bodies, health and emotions.

Children are taught simple self-care techniques, personal hygiene, prevention of health and wellbeing problems and basic first aid. From Y1 children learn about health and personal safety with a focus on medicines and substances found in most homes. Y3 and Y4 cover smoking and alcohol. This includes understanding why people use these legal drugs, the effects they have on our bodies and how to resist use. From Year 5 onwards the children will focus on legal and illegal substances. In Y5 and 6 children are taught about puberty and the changing adolescent body.

In addition to the Sheffield RSHE scheme the PSHE curriculum is supplemented by CWP units on drugs and alcohol (Y1 – medicines, Y2 – keeping safe, Y3 – smoking, Y4 – alcohol, Y5 – legal and illegal drugs and Y6 – preventing use).  We also teach first aid through the British Red Cross materials (Y1 – burns, Y2 – asthma, Y3 – bleeding, Y4 – broken bones, Y5 – head injuries/unresponsive and breathing and Y6 – choking/unresponsive and not breathing).

Additional PSHE Curriculum Units (EYFS – Y6)

From EYFS onwards we use the ‘No Outsiders’ materials and books to teach about accepting difference.  The No Outsiders scheme uses over 42 picture books to teach about difference and equality, that is six different books for each year group. In EYFS - Y2, we use picture books where characters are different, and we show that they are also friends, and they play together. The characters in the books reflect our school’s diversity, in the hope that children will see themselves reflected in the books.  In Y3 – Y6, we explore reasons why some people might feel left out.  We also discuss issues such as prejudice and discrimination, and the fact that children may experience prejudice or discrimination at some point in their lives. We need to prepare them, give them confidence to disagree when they hear prejudice, and show them that they are not alone.  The materials give children the language to challenge prejudice and show acceptance. These materials are linked to the Protected Characteristics.

Online safety is taught from EYFS to Y6 through the Project EVOLVE  curriculum.  This curriculum has been written by the team at the UK Safer Internet Centre and provides resources for each of the 330 statements from the UK Council for Internet Safety's (UKCIS) framework “Education for a Connected World”. The Project EVOLVE curriculum is divided in the following 8 strands – self-image and identity, online relationships, online reputation, online bullying, managing online information, health, well-being and lifestyle, privacy and security and copyright and ownership. Each strand is taught in every year group and the content of the strands develops progressively from the EYFS to Y6.