PSHE
Our Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education equips pupils with the knowledge, skills, and understanding necessary to lead confident, healthy, safe, and independent lives, enabling them to become informed, active, and responsible citizens.
Our curriculum follows the Jigsaw Scheme of Work, offering a broad and balanced range of topics that children explore through discussions, drama, questions, videos, and art.
The Jigsaw teaching materials integrate personal, social, health, economic education (PSHE), emotional literacy, social skills, mindfulness and spiritual development in a whole-school approach. The DfE Relationships and Health Education guidance is woven throughout the Jigsaw programme, but is specifically covered in the Relationships and Healthy Me Puzzles, with puberty and human reproduction being taught in the Changing Me Puzzle. The Jigsaw materials are aligned with the PSHE Association programmes of study and link to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) articles. Our PSHE curriculum also contributes to the teaching of Fundamental British Values and the school’s Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) provision.
There are six Puzzles that will each be taught simultaneously throughout school during the year and will change every half term:
- Being Me in My World
- Understanding Difference
- Dreams and Goals
- Healthy Me
- Relationships
- Changing Me
At Preston, we feel that an awareness of these topics is crucial to provide children with an understanding of the world we live in and how they can stay safe.
