PSHE

Personal, Social and Health and Economic Education

Subject Lead: Mrs J Williams

Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE Education) helps to give pupils the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives and to become informed, active, responsible and moral citizens.

At St Stephen’s CE Primary School, PSHE is embedded throughout our daily life. We model positive relationships, self image and communication skills with others in all our daily interactions. We encourage all our children to play a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community through class, our school councils and other pupil voice projects, supporting nominated charities through courageous advocacy and involvement in community activities. 

As a church school we promote the message God wants us to be caring, considerate, responsible citizens looking after ourselves, others and the world in which we live. 

PSHE is taught as a discrete subject: through PSHE lessons; assemblies linked to Collective Worship; cross-curricular opportunities; outdoor educational visits, community work and whole school events and celebrations.  We recognise themed weeks such as 'Anti-Bullying Week' where we discuss the true meaning of bullying in depth.  We use the 'S.T.O.P.' acronym as a reminder: 'Several Times On Purpose'. We have a passion for developing the mental health and wellbeing of everyone in our school community and our recent celebrations for 'Mental Health Awareness Week' and 'Children's Mental Health Awareness Week' were a great success! This academic year, we appointed year 5 and 6 pupils as Mental Health and Wellbeing (MHWB) Champions to lead our children in developing their knowledge of this important facet of their wellbeing. 

The PSHE curriculum now incorporates the statutory inclusion of Relationships and Health Education (RHE) objectives.  These statutory objectives are included within our curriculum. Our revised PSHE curriculum, published in September 2024, provides a detailed breakdown of the teaching sequence by year group and has been carefully sequenced to develop the social and emotional learning of our children. 

Please find our Yearly Overview Document for PSHE, our Revised Curriculum for PSHE and a copy of our PSHE 'Fingerprint', which outlines the key principles of PSHE education at St Stephen's, below.