At Dulwich Wood, PSHE education is a programme of learning through which our children acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills that they need to manage their lives now and in the future. As part of a whole-school approach, which includes multi-faith assemblies, collaboration with key children’s charities, as well as refugee awareness and key literacy texts that highlight issues around friendships and equalities we use the Coram Life Education SCARF programme. SCARF is an acronym for – Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship and alongside this we also use the Christopher Winter Project materials so our PSHE curriculum covers all aspects of the statutory guidance for Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education (2020). SCARF supports ours PSHE programme by promoting positive behaviour, mental health, wellbeing, resilience and achievement. Our school values caring, confident, collaborative and community are explicitly explored and embedded through PSHE and more generally through the wider curriculum.
By following these programmes, we aim for the children at Dulwich Wood to develop the qualities and attributes that they need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society and to adhere in full to British Values which underpin everything we teach. This means equipping children with the skills and knowledge to live healthy, safe, productive, capable, responsible and balanced lives. As well as, encouraging them to be enterprising; supporting them in making effective transitions; making positive learning and career choices; and in achieving economic wellbeing.
A critical component of our PSHE education is providing opportunities for children to reflect on and clarify their own values and attitudes as well as explore the complex and sometimes conflicting range of values and attitudes they encounter now and in the future.
Within each year group the curriculum is organised into six themes:
- Me and my relationships
- Valuing differences
- Keeping myself safe
- Rights and responsibility
- Being the best me
- Growing and changing
If you’d like to discover more about how we teach PSHE at Dulwich Wood you can read our guidance in full by downloading the link below.
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