At Bush Hill Park, we embed a vocabulary and reading rich PSHE curriculum that enables children to develop the knowledge and skills to keep themselves physically and mentally healthy, safe, and manage life’s challenges.

We have established a coherent and sequential curriculum that is carefully planned out to meet the needs of pupils throughout their academic journey. We create opportunities to develop attributes promoting diversity, acceptance, resilience, respect, and responsibility, in order to best access all areas of the wider balanced curriculum.

Children are encouraged to explore personal, social, health and economic issues within their lives, the school, and the wider community within an open and respectful community of learners. As a staff, we thoughtfully plan engaging and thought-provoking lessons that fulfil the National Curriculum objectives.

Our topics over the course of the year follow the same sequence across all year groups, and they include: Being Me in My World, Celebrating Difference, Dreams and Goals, Healthy Me, Relationships and Changing Me. We promote wholly inclusive attitudes within the pupils and school community and aim to raise the profile of our pupil voice in celebrating diversity throughout lessons and topics that teach children to be distinctly pro-inclusion and pro-diversity.

Ofsted (2013) - “Children with higher levels of emotional, behavioural, social and school wellbeing on average have higher levels of academic achievement, both concurrently and in later years

At Bush Hill Park Primary we aim to:

• Implement a PSHE curriculum that enables children to develop the knowledge and skills to keep themselves healthy, safe and manage life’s challenges

• To create opportunities to develop attributes such as resilience, self-esteem and self-awareness, in order to best access all areas of the curriculum

• To encourage children to explore personal, social, health and economic issues within their lives, the school and the wider community
• To support the planning of engaging and thought-provoking lessons that require teamwork and critical thinking, in the context of health and well-being, relationships and living in the wider world

Objectives:

• Ensure a consistent approach to inclusive teaching practice for all pupils using Jigsaw and teacher planning

• Maintain school ethos and values of respect, responsibility and resilience 

• Continued emphasis and awareness of healthy lifestyle choices including focus on mental health and wellbeing of all children

• Ensure PSHE and circle time remain prominent across the school, and are taught both discreetly and through creating cross curricular links