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Calder Vale St John C of E Primary School
Grow, Achieve, Explore
PSHE
What do our children learn during their time at our school?
Our PSHE curriculum is centred around the wellbeing, health, happiness and futures of our children. We aim to ensure that children leave our school with the knowledge, skills and enthusiasm to play a successful and positive role in society in the future.
Our core PSHE themes are:
✸ Looking After my Body and Mind
✸ Keeping Safe
✸ Being a Global Citizen
✸ Celebrating Families
✸ Being a Good Friend
✸ Growing Up
Across the federation, we use modern and high-quality resources to teach the statutory and non-statutory guidance in PSHE and use our excellent knowledge of our children to tailor the curriculum for the needs of the class. Our main curriculum is delivered using The Story Project. The Story Project is an evidence-based, award-winning (Best health and Wellbeing resource - TeachPrimary 2025 Awards) PSHE curriculum that embeds oracy and literacy by putting stories and reading at the heart of learning for PSHE. It aims to inspire the next generation to make healthier choices, both now and into adulthood. Alongside this, we also have embedded MyHappymind into our teaching as a health and wellbeing resource. MyHappymind teaches children to learn strategies and develop preventative habits to look after their mental health. We are also very lucky to regularly welcome visitors into school to enrich our curriculum including visits from Garstang Fire Service, Lancashire Police, Karen from the Dogs Trust and Headtsart.
PSHE Lessons in Our School
In PSHE lessons, our children our encouraged to be open-minded, reflective and confident and learn that their classrooms are safe place to ask big questions. Each of our lessons follow the STORY structure, which allows children to settle, understand their objectives, read and enjoy their story and take part in activities:
Children share and showcase their learning in a range of ways including discussion, writing, art and drama and music. Children also review their learning in every unit through a shared discussion.
