PSHE

Personal, Social and Health Education

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE Education) and Citizenship help 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, school councils, supporting nominated charities 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 and through other subjects such as RE, History, Geography, Literacy, Maths and Science, outdoor educational visits, community work and activities.  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'.

The PSHE curriculum now incorporates the statutory inclusion of Relationships and Health Education (RHE) objectives.  This has been woven into the current curriculum maps so that links are made to subjects across the curriculum.

See below for how PSHE including RHE is mapped out across the school.