PSHE & RSE
Subject Leader
Miss H. Brewin
My name is Miss Brewin, and I am the leader for PSHE & RSE at Shobnall Primary & Nursery School. I am passionate about PSHE and its importance in shaping our children today by offering them a curriculum that reflects the challenges of the 21st Century. We understand our responsibility to deliver a high-quality, age-appropriate, and evidence-based relationships and health curriculum for all our pupils.
With this in mind, we have carefully chosen MyHappyMind Plus as our core scheme, which follows a structured, evidence-based approach to wellbeing and resilience. We have listened carefully to the needs of our community and tailored a curriculum that supports the emotional and mental health of our pupils while equipping them with essential life skills.
To ensure seamless progression in PSHE, we use MyHappyMind Plus alongside additional financial education, helping children develop money management skills for the future – an essential aspect of modern life.
To guarantee that learning is meaningful, we provide regular CPD opportunities for all staff and foster a culture of knowledge-sharing across the academy. Through this collective learning, we are proud that our team is always striving to be the best it can be.
Vision
At Shobnall Primary & Nursery School, our vision is for our young people to acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to manage their lives, now and in the future. Our pupils will develop the qualities and attributes pupils need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society.
Aims and Goals
Learning is a change to long-term memory. Our aims and goals are to ensure that our students experience a wide breadth of study and have, by the end of each key stage, long-term memory of an ambitious body of procedural and semantic knowledge.
We ensure our pupils know how to stay safe and lead a healthy lifestyle, physically and mentally, in order to play an active role as citizens in the 21st century world.
Our children have a strong sense of self and identity. They are able to form positive relationships with family, friends, and people in authority and respect value and respect each other’s differences.
We believe our pupils should make the most of their abilities and develop the confidence and responsibility to do so.
Curriculum
MyHappyMind Plus is a whole-school wellbeing programme that is progressive across all year groups. The scheme follows a structured, evidence-based approach to developing resilience, positive mental health, and emotional wellbeing in children. While each year group’s learning is tailored to their developmental stage, the whole school focuses on building core skills that support happiness, confidence, and healthy relationships.
As part of our RSE, pupils learn about the nature and importance of family life and raising children. They also explore how strong, supportive relationships exist in many forms, including outside of marriage. We ensure that no child feels stigmatised because of their home circumstances, and we actively promote inclusivity, respect, and understanding. Our approach provides accurate, age-appropriate information while helping pupils develop the skills to appreciate differences, respect themselves and others, and challenge prejudice.
RSE at our school contributes to pupils’ spiritual, moral, cultural, mental, and physical development, preparing them for the responsibilities and experiences of adult life. We deliver this in close partnership with parents and carers, ensuring a supportive and consistent approach to children’s wellbeing.
Assessment
At Shobnall Primary & Nursery School, we recognise that meaningful assessment is central to ensuring all pupils make excellent progress in their personal, social and emotional development. Our comprehensive assessment framework for PSHE, built around the MyHappyMind Plus programme, supports our school vision while maintaining rigorous, evidence-based practice.
Our Formative Assessment Approach
The foundation of our assessment lies in regular use of reflective journals, which provide valuable insights into pupils’ developing understanding and personal growth. Teachers facilitate structured deepening discussions that reveal pupils’ thought processes and emerging skills. These qualitative methods, combined with ongoing teacher observations of how pupils apply their learning in real-world contexts, create a rich picture of each child’s progress.
Summative Assessment and Continuous Improvement
At the end of each unit, teachers complete a professional reflection survey to evaluate how children have implemented their learning in practice. This survey, alongside careful analysis of pupils’ reflective journals and discussion contributions, forms our summative assessment process. We track how effectively pupils transfer their PSHE learning to daily life, ensuring full coverage of statutory content while demonstrating clear, measurable progress.
Our approach uniquely combines pupil self-reflection with professional teacher evaluation, creating a complete assessment picture that celebrates individual journeys while maintaining high standards. The teacher reflection surveys provide valuable data to inform future planning and ensure our PSHE curriculum remains responsive to pupils’ needs. This robust yet flexible system supports all learners effectively, upholding our commitment to inclusive, personalised education that prepares pupils to thrive in all aspects of life.
Through this multi-layered assessment framework, we maintain a dynamic PSHE programme that not only meets statutory requirements but genuinely enhances our pupils’ wellbeing and life skills.
Cross-Curricular
Science
In Key Stage 1 children are taught to draw and label the human body and explain which parts of the body are linked to which sense. Children are taught to describe the importance of staying healthy, including healthy eating and exercise.
In Key Stage 2 children are taught about reproduction of plants and animals and the life cycles of a mammal, amphibian or bird. The children are also taught to describe the changes as humans develop to old age.
British Values
Children are encouraged from EYFS to treat each other with mutual respect. Children taught about the similarities and differences between themselves and others. This is encourages through the use of the role play areas and language used e.g. firefighters not fireman. Challenging stereotypes through resources such as, gender and cultural and racial stereotyping through stories.
Financial Education
Financial education will be taught from EYFS to year 6 in the summer term. Teachers will be using the resources from Natwest Money Matters which covers: What does money look like and how to look after my money in EYFS and Key Stage 1 to weekly budgeting and planning meals in Key Stage 2. All children will be offered the opportunity to take part in an enterprise project in the summer term where the children will set up a business in groups. This project will be run outside of school hours.
Visits and Enrichment
At Shobnall Primary & Nursery School we place great emphasis on the importance of educational visits and visitors to enhance the teaching and learning of PSHE. These visits and visitors, which provide valuable opportunities for learning through first-hand experience, are therefore an integral part of the curriculum and allow our children to make valuable connections between what they have learned in class and their first hand experiences in the real-world.
Whole School Enrichment and Clubs: We strive to offer the best possible learning opportunities for our children at Shobnall Primary & Nursery School to enrich our curriculum, we have carefully chosen experiences that allow our children to enjoy hands-on activities linked to their whole-class projects.
Pupil Voice
At Shobnall Primary & Nursery School we believe that the view of every pupil is important to ensure that we provide the best education possible. A selection of views collected last academic year have helped us to improve the PSHE education that we provide.
Documents and Useful Links
Please see below a selection of documents that relate to the intent, implementation, and impact of PSHE teaching and learning at Shobnall Primary & Nursery School. If you require any additional information relating to this subject, then please contact the subject leader, Miss Brewin, via the school office. Click on the links below for useful resources too.
We are proud to announce that we are a myHappymind Bronze Accredited school!
This means that as a school we consider the mental health and wellbeing of our children as one of our top priorities. We have created a whole school culture that helps build our children’s resilience, confidence and self esteem as well as teaching them how to self regulate in those stressful times.
This Accreditation badge has been awarded thanks to all the effort our staff, children, governors and parents have put in to bring the lessons of myHappymind to life all around our school!
To Learn more about the myHappymind for Schools programme visit their website here – https://myhappymind.org/
