We use the Jigsaw curriculum to guide progression in skills over time so that when our children leave us in Year 6, they are ready for the next step in their education at secondary school.
Jigsaw is our Primary PSHE Programme including statutory Relationships and Health Education, in a spiral and progressive way, giving children relevant learning experiences to help them navigate their world and to develop positive relationships with themselves and others.
With strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health, Jigsaw 3-11 properly equips Thomas Gray to deliver engaging and relevant PSHE within a whole-school approach. Jigsaw lessons also include mindfulness allowing children to advance their emotional awareness, concentration and focus.
At Woodside C of E Primary School, we aim to promote pupil’s personal, social, spiritual and health education, as well as their emotional development and well-being.
We build on statutory content already outlined in the national curriculum and follow the ‘Jigsaw’ scheme of work to provide consistency throughout our school, support staff with subject knowledge and reduce teacher workload.
We aim to provide pupils with the knowledge, understanding, attitudes, values and skills they need in order to reach their potential as individuals and within the community. This enables them to learn life skills to assist their personal, spiritual and physical growth. Pupils are encouraged to take part in a wide range of activities and experiences across and beyond the curriculum, contributing fully to the life of their school and communities. In doing so they learn to recognise their own worth, work well with others and become increasingly responsible for their own learning.
Our aim at Woodside C of E Primary is to teach PSHE creatively and aim to provide children with meaningful opportunities that will be well remembered including school tips, schools visitors, cross-curricular lessons, and Jigsaw class sessions. Children are encouraged to reflect on their experiences and understand how they are developing personally and socially. They learn to understand and respect our common humanity; diversity and differences so that they can go on to form the effective, fulfilling relationships that are an essential part of life and learning. In addition, our PSHE curriculum incorporates an age-appropriate understanding of RSE, as set in the statutory guidance, enabling all children to be safe and to understand and develop healthy relationships both now and in their future lives.
Intent
At Woodside C of E Primary, PSHE plays a vital part of primary education and is integrated throughout our curriculum. In addition, we ensure that children receive regular PSHE lessons which focus on key objectives and skills. Teaching and learning in the classroom shows progression across all key stages within the PSHE core themes; Being Me in My World, Celebrating Differences, Dreams and Goals, Healthy Me, Relationships and Changing Me. RSE is threaded through these core themes but is at the heart of two cores themes (Relationships and Changing me).
The curriculum at Woodside identifies links to British Values and SMSC. There are often occasions where teachers may feel it necessary to teach PSHE as a result of an issue arisen in their own class and we encourage this where possible.
Implementation
At Woodside C of E Primary, PSHE plays a vital part of primary education and is integrated throughout our curriculum. In addition, we ensure that children receive regular PSHE lessons which focus on key objectives and skills. Teaching and learning in the classroom shows progression across all key stages within the PSHE core themes; Being Me in My World, Celebrating Differences, Dreams and Goals, Healthy Me, Relationships and Changing Me. RSE is threaded through these core themes but is at the heart of two cores themes (Relationships and Changing me).
The curriculum at Woodside identifies links to British Values and SMSC. There are often occasions where teachers may feel it necessary to teach PSHE as a result of an issue arisen in their own class and we encourage this where possible.
PSHE is an important part of school assemblies where children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural curiosity is stimulated, challenged and nurtured. We have a whole school assembly to launch each theme and children continue learning at an age-appropriate level.
Each class had its own Jigsaw mascot and energy chime, which we use every lesson!
What topics will children learn about?
Click through to our curriculum map to see each of the topics and periods we learn about over our children's primary experience.
PSHE and RSHE curriculum
We use the National Curriculum to guide progression in skills over time so that when our children leave us in Year 6, they are ready for the next step in their education at secondary school.
