PSHE at Rood End contributes to our school ethos, safeguarding and SMSC.  School leadership, the staff and pupils are clear about the contribution of PSHE to our pupils’ development. PSHE at Rood End provides children with a personal, social, health and economic education. The Kapow scheme of work properly equips us to deliver engaging and relevant PSHE.

We follow the Kapow PSHE scheme which covers the following core areas:

1. Health and Wellbeing
• Healthy eating and nutrition
• Physical activity and exercise
• Mental health and emotional wellbeing
• Keeping safe (online and offline)
• Drugs, alcohol, and tobacco awareness
• Growth and development, including puberty education
2. Relationships Education
• Developing and maintaining positive relationships with peers and adults
• Understanding and respecting diversity
• The importance of kindness, empathy, and cooperation
• Recognising and responding to bullying and discrimination
• Understanding consent and personal boundaries
• Safe relationships, including online safety
3. Living in the Wider World
• Understanding rights and responsibilities

Where appropriate, external professionals (e.g., school nurse, local police, charities) will be invited to lead sessions on specific topics such as healthy eating, internet safety, and mental health.

Pupils will be encouraged to reflect on their learning through journals, self-assessment, and peer feedback. Teachers will assess pupils’ progress against the PSHE learning objectives and adjust future lessons accordingly. The PSHE lead and senior leadership team will regularly review planning, lesson observations, and pupil feedback to ensure the quality of PSHE provision across the school.

Lessons are planned to ensure that pupils of differing abilities, including the most able, are suitably challenged. They plan with detail and attention to their individual children. Learners can be scaffolded, and any individual needs can be supported where necessary. Greater depth children can be challenged to ensure that they are being given the opportunities to enrich their learning further.

PSHE at Rood End develops pupils' knowledge, skills, and attributes that they will need to keep themselves healthy and safe and to prepare them for life and work in modern Britain. It will equip our children with the skills of enquiry and response through the use of questioning and empathy. Our children will learn the skills of reflection and expression. They will also develop respect for and sensitivity to others and consider their own thoughts and opinions and how to communicate their personal responses.

The PSHE lead at Rood End monitors the subject effectively using scrutiny and moderation of outcomes. They also carry out discussions with pupils as this is the only way of knowing exactly how the children feel their learning has impacted them.