Personal Social and Health Education 
Personal, Social, and Health Education (PSHE) is central to giving pupils the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives and to become informed, active and responsible British citizens.
PSHE enables students to understand and respect our common humanity: its diversity and its differences so that they can go on to form, the effective, fulfilling relationships that are an essential part of life and learning.
Intent
Our pupils develop the knowledge, skills, and qualities they need to face the challenges and responsibilities of growing up. We provide the opportunity for every child to receive an education that covers mental health and wellbeing, physical health (including healthy lifestyles and first aid) and learning about safe, healthy relationships, including understanding consent and negotiating life online.
Implementation
We use PSHE Association's thematic model to deliver and resource PSHE at Croft to teach children to be safe, healthy and prepared for life’s opportunities. PSHE Association is continually updating resources available and also provides CPD. The long-term plan is organised to ensure both key stages have the same focus each term:
Autumn term: Relationships including families and friendships, Safe relationships and Respecting ourselves and others.
Spring term: Living in the wider world including: Belonging to a community, Media literacy and digital resilience and Money and work.
Summer term: Health and well-being including: Physical Health and mental well-being, Growing and changing and Keeping safe.
Shared themes means that whole school events are more meaningful. Assemblies are linked to the topics planned across school which enables visitors to be organised to enhance provision of PSHE. Enrichment activities can also be planned for whole key stages. As everyone is aware of the whole school focus, it will be referred to outside of PSHE lessons.
KS1 and KS2 use Picture News assemblies weekly in class assembly time. These cover a different British Value and Protected characteristic each week The assembly timetable has been updated to include key events/initiatives recognised in the Picture news assembly calendar which also reflect our Croft Code and link to British Values.
In Reception, PSHE Matters is used to plan specific direct teaching opportunities. This is mapped out on long, medium term and weekly planning. This is timetabled as one discrete session per week. However, aspects of the PSED curriculum, are continuously taught, demonstrated and modelled throughout the day as the opportunity arises.
Impact
Effective assessment allows pupils and teachers to reflect on what has been learned, increases motivation for future learning and demonstrates impact and this is no exception for PSHE.
We measure the impact of the PSHE curriculum through:
Conversations surrounding content covered
Observations of children’s behaviour
Records kept using CPOMs
Successful adherence to the Croft Code
Pupils in Reception are also assessed within C&L, PSED and Understanding the World and their progress is tracked termly.
PSHE Long term planPSHE Policy
PSHE in action
Year 6 visit to the Houses of Parliament
On 19th November, during UK Parliament Week Home | UK Parliament Week, Year 6 made the most of a fantastic opportunity to visit the Houses of Parliament in London. We had a guided tour from a member of the British government who showed us different parts of the famous building and helped us to learn about the democratic process.
Year 6 DAaRT Programme
Following ten weeks of learning with our DAaRT officer, Mrs Swithenbank, all of our Year 6 successfully graduated from the DAaRT programme (Drug, Alcohol and Resilience training).
The programme has:
Empowered the children to make safe and confident decisions through life skills education, and risks and consequence programmes.
Equipped children with the knowledge to understand risks and navigate risky situations.
Helped them to focus on personal safety, healthy relationships, risk assessment, and independent decision-making.
Provided life skills education for all young people, not just those at risk.
NSPCC Speak Out Stay Safe Programme
During the Autumn term, we participated in the NSPCC’s Speak out. Stay safe. Programme. Speak out. Stay safe. is a programme for children aged 5-11 which aims to help children understand abuse in all its forms and to recognise the signs of abuse. Children are taught to speak out if they are worried, either to a safe adult or Childline.
This child friendly programme is aligned with the curriculum and consists of age appropriate virtual assemblies and supporting classroom-based activities, alongside NSPCC volunteer led face to face workshops for children aged 6-7 and 9-11. The content is delivered in an engaging and interactive way with the help of the NSPCC mascot Buddy.
Anti Bullying Week
This year we ‘Made a noise about bullying’ during national anti-bullying week. We started off the week with odd sock day, recognising and celebrating everyone’s individuality and uniqueness!
