PSHE
What does PSHE and RSHE look like at Bledlow Ridge School?
Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)
Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE)
"Everyone is a star and deserves a chance to sparkle."
Marilyn Monroe
“Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education is a school subject through which pupils develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to manage their lives, now and in the future. These skills and attributes help pupils to stay healthy, safe, and prepare them for life and work in modern Britain. PSHE education helps pupils to achieve their academic potential, and leave school equipped with skills they will need throughout later life.”
-PSHE Association, 2016
- Inspire our children to try new things and accept new challenges.
- Provide our children with a sense of the wider community.
- To understand that we are unique but can have similarities and differences with others and to promote and celebrate these.
- Encourage our children to be independent and confident in self-care.
- Promote healthy choices through mealtimes, cooking and physical activities.
- Teach our children the importance of identifying risks, and managing them appropriately and safely.
- Provide our children with the skills they need to become communicators.
1decision in EYFS
In reception, we have weekly PSHE lessons using the 1Decision scheme to meet the social and emotional needs of the children.
We are using 1decision Early Years resources to meet the needs of Personal Social & Emotional Development in early years. The children will meet Blue Dilemma drops, Green Dilemma drops, Pink Dilemma drops, Purple Dilemma drops, Red Dilemma drops and Yellow Dilemma drops. Each of the Rainbow Drops face a range of dilemmas like feeling scared, learning to share, worry and adjusting to change, road safety, making friends, etc. Children will be involved in group discussions to share their ideas on how to help the Rainbow Drops. These group discussions will help children understand and develop their Personal, Social and Emotional needs.
We also have daily circle time to discuss anything that has happened that day to ensure children know they are in a safe and secure space where they can talk about how they feel and express their opinions.
What is RSHE?
From September 2020, Relationships and Health Education is compulsory in all primary schools in England. For primary aged children this includes curriculum content under two headings:
Relationships Education:
Relationships Education is designed to help children to have positive and safe relationships with family, friends and online. All primary schools are required by the government to teach Relationships Education and parents cannot withdraw children from this section of the curriculum. The areas this section of the curriculum cover are:
Families and people who care for me
- Caring Friendships
- Respectful Relationships
- Online Relationships
- Being Safe
Health Education:
Health Education will help children to make good decisions about their health and wellbeing and enable them to know how to seek support if any health issues arise for themselves or others. The areas it will cover are:
- Mental wellbeing
- Internet Safety and Harms
- Physical Health and Fitness
- Health Eating
- Drugs, alcohol and tobacco
- Health and prevention
- Basic First Aid
- The Changing Adolescent Body
This DfE guidance clearly states the statutory requirements, i.e. what children MUST be taught by the end of primary school. Health Education includes learning about ‘the changing adolescent body’ to equip children to understand and cope with puberty. The National Curriculum for Science (also a compulsory subject), includes learning the correct names for the main external body parts, learning about the human body as it grows from birth to old age and reproduction in some plants and animals (which could include human beings). So, Relationships Education, Health Education and Science are compulsory subjects and parents/carers do NOT have the right to withdraw their children from these subjects.
Sex Education
Sex Education is designed to help children to:
- Understand and respect their bodies
- Develop positive and healthy relationships appropriate to their age and development
- Support children to have positive self-esteem and body image
- Empower them to be safe and safeguarded.
At Bledlow Ridge School we have been delivering RSE within our Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) curriculum for many years. We have reviewed our PSHE curriculum to make sure that our lessons meet the requirements that the government has set out for the content of Relationships and Health Education. The DfE recommends, ‘that all primary schools should have a Sex Education programme tailored to the age and the physical and emotional maturity of the pupils.’ At Bledlow Ridge School this is taught through our 1decision PSHE programme.
What is 1decision?
The 1decision resources have been developed over the past 9 years and were created by specialists working together with schools and most importantly children. The 1decision materials have received the Quality Mark from the PSHE Association, which means that our school community can be assured that they include the very best practice as part of a whole-school approach to keeping the children safe, happy and healthy.
The resource allow children to develop essential skills, knowledge and vocabulary to manage different influences and pressures in their lives to make safe and informed choices.
Why have we chosen to use this scheme at Bledlow Ridge?
Through our use of 1decision, we provide the children with the opportunity to explore the consequences of choices that are made and develop their knowledge around making informed and positive choices in their lives. Each unit provides the class with a video scenario where they can take control of the story and decide the ending. Not only do they get to decide the choices that are made by characters, they also get to see the consequences that could be faced if a different path was taken. This allows our children to confidently discuss and articulate the impacts that their decisions and the decisions of others may have in life.
The Programme is spilt into 9 units
- Keeping/Staying Safe
- Keeping and Staying Healthy
- Feelings and Emotions
- Computer Safety
- Growing and Changing
- Being Responsible
- The Working World
- A World without Judgements
- Fire Safety (Key Stage 1) and First Aid (Key Stage 2)
Our children and staff understand that our values are at the heart of education at Bledlow Ridge School. Through our curriculum, we provide pupils with the skills and knowledge to nurture themselves and others as unique individuals, valuing differences and empowering them to actively and positively engage in the challenges of their ever changing wider world and contribute together to create a brighter vision of the future.
See Policy section of the school's website to access PSHE and RSHE policies
Parent/Carer information
As a parent/carer you are your child’s first educator and play a vital role in their personal and social development. Therefore, PSHE education should always be a partnership between schools and parents/carers.
As a parent or carer you will already have talked to your child about (or had to support them with) many of the topics and issues covered in PSHE education, so you may also wish to supplement this learning with further discussions of your own.
Sometimes PSHE education conversations with your child will arise incidentally, when you playing or cooking together, when you are watching television or films, or through news stories. In such cases we cannot always control the stimulus for the question or conversation, only how we manage it. Other times, you may wish to initiate a conversation about a topic you feel is important to approach.
Children ask questions, it a sign of a great learner. We want your child to gain accurate, age-appropriate information and feel these useful information leaflets and useful websites are helpful for you to use, at home, with your child to support the PSHE curriculum.
Body Image and Advertising - Parent Guide
The Children's Society - How to Support Your Childs Well-being-parent-guide.pdf
Talk PANTS & Join Pantosaurus - The Underwear Rule | NSPCC
Useful Websites
Parliament - https://learning.parliament.uk/home-education/
PSHE Association - https://www.pshe-association.org.uk/pshe-education-guide-parents
The School Run - https://www.theschoolrun.com/how-talk-your-child-about-sex
Childline - https://www.childline.org.uk/
NSPCC - https://www.nspcc.org.uk/
NHS Livewell - https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/sexual-health/stages-of-puberty-what-happens-to-boys-and-girls/
NHS Change4Life - https://www.nhs.uk/change4life
KidsHealth - https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/
BBC Bitesize KS1 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zmpfb9q
BBC Bitesize KS2 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zqtnvcw
Redcross - https://www.redcross.org.uk/first-aid/learn-first-aid-for-babies-and-children
Thinkuknow - https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/
RSHE resources for parents
Relationships and Health Education is a fundamental part of the Personal, Social, Health Education curriculum for pupils in our school. At Bledlow Ridge School, understanding the way in which relationships develop and grow over time from childhood through to adult relationships is part of a lifelong learning.
We understand the importance of relationships and the values, qualities and responsibilities in friendships, families and loving relationships and how to develop an understanding of safety in the online environment. Our work promote and upholds our Bledlow Ridge School Values of confidence, respect and empathy towards others.
RSHE Information Leaflets published by DfE
Anti-bullying at BRS
100% of parents, agree or strongly agree, that bullying at school is dealt with quickly and effectively (parent survey October 2023).
At Bledlow Ridge School, we believe that all pupils have the right to learn in a supportive, inclusive, safe and caring setting without the fear of bullying or harassment. The school aims to provide a happy environment where there is mutual respect, an emphasis on good manners and a school community that embraces individuality and celebrates those qualities that make us all unique. To this end, all members of the school community are encouraged to develop into responsible citizens, embodying our Bledlow Ridge School Values.
Bullying is wrong and in recognition of this, we have robust measures in place, including a clear Anti-Bullying Policy and strategy on how to prevent, identify and respond to bullying behaviour, in all its forms.
How we prevent bullying
- Developing a PSHE curriculum using 1Decision throughout the school to teach children emotional literacy, social and lifelong skills, RSHE and resilience in an age-appropriate manner.
- Online Safety taught through the Computing and RSHE curriculum
- Involving the whole school community in writing and reviewing the policy.
- Circle time on bullying issues.
- Assemblies (whole school and key stage) at targeted times during the year and in response to arising issues.
- Raising awareness of Bullying for all stakeholders during initiatives such as Anti-Bullying Week.
- Publishing useful links on the school website focusing on anti-bullying and how to deal with bullying effectively
- Using drama activities and role play to help children become assertive in dealing with bullying situations.
- Everyone in the school community to model appropriate behaviour to each other.
- The use of restorative practices across the school to ensure empathetic proactive approaches.
Our News
Say No to Bullying Monday 13th to Friday 17th November 2023
Theme - Make a Noise
This year, Anti-Bullying week runs from MONDAY 13th to FRIDAY 17th NOVEMBER and this year’s theme is ‘Make a Noise!’
We will be planning lots of activities for the children to take part in to encourage them to choose to take care of others and to show how everyone at Bledlow Ridge School is united against bullying!
Our anti-bullying focus will start on MONDAY 13th November with ODD SOCKS DAY and it will end on FRIDAY 17th NOVEMBER with FRIENDSHIP FRIDAY!!!
Children and adults are invited to come to school dressed in odd socks. The crazier the better. Odd Sock Day provides an opportunity to have fun, and spread awareness and to think about how bullying affects us, what to do if you're worried about bullying and why it's important that we are all unique.