PSHE & RSE
PSHE AT ST.JOHN'S
At St John’s CE Primary School, our curriculum is designed to inspire lifelong learning and is anchored by our core motto: "The JOY of the Lord is Your Strength" (Jesus, Others, Yourself). We deliver an ambitious, sequentially structured, and inclusive education that celebrates the unique identity of every child. By blending a rigorous academic foundation with deep spiritual, moral, and social development, we nurture the curiosity, resilience, and confidence pupils need to flourish. Rooted in our strong Christian family ethos, our curriculum ensures that learning is accessible to all, fostering an environment where differences are celebrated and every individual is fully equipped to realise their God-given potential.
Our Intent
Through Personal, Social and Health Education we aim to encourage the children at St John’s Primary School to stay safe, be healthy, enjoy and achieve, to make a positive contribution and to achieve economic wellbeing. In order for us to achieve this we will promote self-esteem, responsibility, relationships, respect and being a part of different communities. We want all children will be ‘lifelong learners’ with the confidence and ability to develop their skills and understanding when having new experiences, meeting new challenges and finding themselves in unfamiliar situations.
Our Implementation
PSHE at St Johns is implemented by following the whole school scheme with Kapow; which aims to give children the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to effectively navigate the complexities of life in the 21st Century. The five themes that are covered are: Family and relationships, Health and wellbeing, Safety and the changing body, Citizenship and Economic wellbeing. PSHE learning comes in many different forms: through whole-class teaching, group activities, individual tasks, assemblies, outside speakers, cross-curricula lessons and discrete lessons. During PSHE sessions children are encouraged to both ask and answer questions, to deepen their knowledge and understanding. A great deal of time is spent considering scenarios and possible responses to them.
Each area is revisited every year to allow children to build on prior learning. The lessons also provide a progressive programme. Classes create scrapbooks with snapshots of learning taken from each lesson, presented in an A3 folder.
Through our PSHE curriculum, we believe we can enhance children’s education and help them to become caring, respectful, responsible and confident individuals and citizens. Although PSHE is taught as explicit lessons, is also embedded in other areas of the curriculum and day -to-day life of St John’s. As a result, our children are supported in developing the following characteristics which link into our Christian Values:
• Happy and positive relationships
• Empathy and compassion
• The confidence to make the most of their abilities
• Value and respect of diversity
• Respect for others’ rights to their own values and beliefs
• Evaluation (and appropriate challenge) of the opinions and arguments of others
• Leadership and presentation skills
• Enterprise skills and attributes
• Skills for employability (aspiration, communication, creativity, goal setting)
We want children to end their journey with us at St Johns being able to move onto the next stage of their education with self-confidence and a high sense of self-worth.
Ready to believe they can and they will…
RSE AT ST.JOHN'S
At St John’s CE Primary School, our curriculum is designed to inspire lifelong learning and is anchored by our core motto: "The JOY of the Lord is Your Strength" (Jesus, Others, Yourself). We deliver an ambitious, sequentially structured, and inclusive education that celebrates the unique identity of every child. By blending a rigorous academic foundation with deep spiritual, moral, and social development, we nurture the curiosity, resilience, and confidence pupils need to flourish. Rooted in our strong Christian family ethos, our curriculum ensures that learning is accessible to all, fostering an environment where differences are celebrated and every individual is fully equipped to realise their God-given potential.
Our Intent
At St John’s, good relationships are fundamental to our ethos and our success in being a happy, caring and safe school. Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) is lifelong learning about relationships, emotions, looking after ourselves, different families, sex, sexuality and sexual health. We aim for the children in our school to acquire the appropriate knowledge, develop their skills and form positive beliefs, values and attitudes. RSE has a key part to play in the personal, social, moral and spiritual development of young people.
Our Implementation
RSE is taught as explicit lessons through the PSHE and science curriculums but is also embedded in other areas of the curriculum and day-to-day life of the school – such as our Christian Values, ethos of JOY and Collective Worship. In PSHE, RSE is specifically covered in the units ‘Family and Relationships and Safety and Changing Body’ through the Kapow units of work. Reception follow the PSED objectives from the EYFS Framework. In science, RSE is also included ‘Animals Including Humans’ and ‘Living Things and Their Habitats’ which cover the statutory requirements. In Year 5, RSE is delivered discretely with support from the Southport and Area Schools Worker Trust – a local Christian organisation – using a carefully devised programme called ‘You, Me and RSE.’ This programme covers puberty, conception and pregnancy, therefore overrides these objectives in Year 6. Parents can withdraw their child from the conception and pregnancy objectives, but we strongly advise all children leave primary school with a secure understanding of these areas in preparation for future learning in secondary school. Children are taught by familiar adults who they have a good rapport with, in order to facilitate constructive and supportive discussions around sensitive topics in a safe and secure environment. Staff have high expectations of behaviour which reflect the British Values upheld in our community and wider world. Staff are trained to respond to the needs of the individual child and support children and they are all aware of where to seek further support if needed.
As a result, children in St John’s will demonstrate confidence and awareness about sex and relationships in an independent and safe way. They will develop a good understanding about safety and risks in relationships. Children will be prepared for the physical and emotional changes they undergo during puberty and RSE will promote their wellbeing and will prepare them for the challenges, opportunities, and responsibilities of adult life. The RSE programme will have a positive impact on children’s health and wellbeing and their ability to achieve in all aspects of their life.
Ready to believe they can and they will…
