"PSHE education is a school curriculum subject in England that helps children and young people stay healthy, safe and prepared for life – and work – in modern Britain. When taught well, PSHE education also helps pupils to achieve their academic potential."

- The PSHE Association

What does PSHE look like at Uplands?

At Uplands Primary School, we focus on elements of personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education both in the high quality lessons we teach, as well as throughout our daily routines. We encourage open discussions and debates, in which children are able to ask questions and feel comfortable to challenge ideas, as they develop their understanding of various issues. We help pupils to learn about their own personal development. Children in our school learn to care for others, to be generous, kind and respectful. We strongly believe that good experience in personal relationships in early life will make an important contribution to their understanding of moral and spiritual values when they are older. We make links in our PSHE lessons to our five Big Ideas that appear throughout all subjects in our curriculum: environment, similarities and differences, diversity, relationships and changes.

We use a scheme called SCARF to support our PSHE curriculum. SCARF stands for: Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship - all of which we value highly at Uplands Community Primary School. 

Enrichment Opportunities

We enrich our PSHE curriculum through additional activities offered to the children, visitors into school and relevant trips. In the past, these have included:

• Y5/6 trips to Skills Zone.
• Enrichment week on careers where children got to meet people from various different jobs.
• Well-being surveys and checks throughout the year.
• Anti-bullying weeks.
• Kindness week where we performed random acts of kindness, picked up litter around the school and focused on our relationships.
• Police visits with Year 5/6 on keeping safe.
• Life Bus visits from SCARF – all classes.
• Daily yoga and well-being sessions in class.
• Well-being lists in class for children to choose activities from at certain times.
• Opportunities to raise money for charitable causes.
• Whole school assemblies on various issues including NSPCC special assemblies, friendships and positive relationships, anti-bullying and mental well-being.

PSHE Outcomes

At Uplands, we communicate our learning through a variety of ways. These can include extended written outcomes, visual representations, drama, posters, debates and discussions.

Class teachers formatively assess the children’s understanding of the key concepts and key knowledge taught throughout their lessons. They also record an overall understanding of key areas at the end of each unit to enable the subject leader and future teachers to have a picture of each child’s learning journey across their time from Reception to Year 6.

Our PSHE Curriculum

We have mapped out the key areas of learning that we want to make sure our children achieve during each term at Uplands. We have created links throughout the curriculum to past and future learning. These are contained in our Granular Learning document below.