Welcome to PSHE at St John’s.
PSHE – Personal, Social, Health and Economic education is an essential area of learning at St John’s. It covers all the essential aspects of Relationships and Health Education (RHE) made statutory by the DFE in 2020.
Relationships Education puts in place the building blocks needed for positive and safe relationships, including with family, friends and online. Children are also taught who can support them and how to treat each other with kindness, consideration and respect.
Health Education provides the information children need to make good decisions about their own health and wellbeing. It includes:
Mental wellbeing
Internet safety and harms
Physical health and fitness
Healthy eating
Health and prevention
Basic first aid
Changing adolescent bodies
Facts and risks associated with drugs, alcohol and tobacco
We also include teaching on:
Fundamental British Values,
Racism,
Environmental issues,
How to look after money.
PSHE lessons at St John’s help provide skills that will help our children deal with their lives now, growing up in Burnley and for their future lives in such changing times in modern Britain.
Our PSHE Curriculum is taught weekly as lessons using our chosen scheme ‘Ten:Ten – Life to the Full plus’. This scheme is accredited by Salford Diocese and meets statutory guidance for Relationships and Health Education using a faith-based programme. Teaching is underpinned with the understanding that our deepest identity is as a child of God – created, chosen and loved by God. It is based on the teaching that God created our bodies, in his image, out of love and therefore we should love and respect ourselves and other people including our own and others’ bodies. We chose this programme due to the Catholic teaching and because it is fully inclusive of all our pupils and their families.
PSHE is continually re-enforced on a day-to-day basis in prayer and liturgy, visitors, workshops, trips and many other PSHE related activities and enrichment.