PSHE in detail
PSHE is delivered across the school through topic work, alongside specified themed days. This approach immerses and stretches children's understanding on a range of issues. These lessons follow guidance from both Relationships and Sex Education RSE), Health Education (DfE 2020) and UNICEF’s Rights of a Child. At the end of each term the children’s topic work ends with a legacy outcome. These enable children to develop economic and enterprise skills. They also enable our children to develop global citizenship, develop a social conscience and through this, ‘make a difference having impact and leave a legacy.’
Our unique curriculum enables children to explore and learn about such issues as:
- Keeping safe and what to do if you feel unsafe
- Online safety
- Health and hygiene
- Mental health
- Eating healthfully and keeping fit
- Cultural diversity and differences
- Citizenship and child voice
- Being part of a community
- Climate change and looking after the environment
- Sex and relationships education (parents have the right to remove their child from this. This needs to be put in writing to the headteacher).
- Drug and tobacco education
- Aspirations
- Loss and grief
- Protected characteristics such as LGBT
Trewirgie Juniors is a mentally healthy school that adopts a whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. We recognise the importance of good mental health in order for children to flourish, learn and succeed. Key to this is the school's ethos and values, alongside the school’s PSHE curriculum.
Our wellbeing team work with children from across the school to build resilience and good mental stamina. As a trauma informed school, we have a number of TIS practitioners. They work across the school to support good personal development and wellbeing. Every year group has also got Emotional available adults (EAA) attached to them. This empowers each year group to further delve into the PSHE curriculum through incidental learning opportunities, whilst enabling children the space and avenue to share any concerns, questions or positive stories that they would wish to share.
Trewirgie Juniors is committed to developing children as healthy, independent, responsible members of society. We want our children to understand both their rights and their responsibilities towards themselves, others in the school and the local and global community. This is why we were a rights respecting gold school.
We want to help our children to be informed, thoughtful and responsible individuals who are aware of their duties and rights whilst understanding how they develop socially, personally and as a good citizen.
