PSHE AND HEALTH EDUCATION AND RELATIONSHIPS EDUCATION
Jigsaw is a PSHE scheme of work that includes statutory Relationships and Health Education.
It offers a comprehensive programme in a spiral, progressive and fully planned scheme of work, giving children relevant learning experiences to help them navigate their world and to develop positive relationships with themselves and others.
With strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health the Jigsaw programme equips us to deliver engaging and relevant PSHE within a whole school approach. Jigsaw lessons also include mindfulness allowing children to advance their emotional awareness, concentration and focus. This links in well with our whole school approach to developing resilient and independent learners, and the concept of James Nottingham's Learning Pit.
This page has a link to free stories and activities for parents and carers to access at home with their children.
RELATIONSHIPS EDUCATION, HEALTH EDUCATION AND RELATIONSHIPS AND SEX EDUCATION (RSE)
Relationships Education gives pupils the information they need to help them develop healthy, nurturing relationships with other children and with adults. It aims to enable children to know what a healthy relationship looks like, how to build and maintain happy, healthy relationships with others and to recognise the importance of a range of relationships with friends, family, in school and in the wider community in which they live. Relationships Education also teaches pupils to recognise unhealthy behaviours, how to keep safe, identify potential dangers in their on and off line lives and how to report any concerns, worries or abuse and where to access help when needed. Health Education is about teaching the characteristics of good physical health and mental wellbeing. Mental wellbeing is a part of daily life, in the same way as physical health. For primary schools Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) is recommended but not mandated. At Coteford Infant School we do not teach RSE. We do cover “Being Safe” as aspect of the statutory Relationships Education curriculum which includes learning related to privacy and safeguarding. It is recommended, for example by the NSPCC, that children are taught the correct names for all body parts and we teach the scientific names of body parts. This is introduced in year 1 as part of Relationships Education “Being Safe” via delivery of NSPCC PANTS teaching resources (https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/media/1387/underwear-rule-resources-lesson-plan.pdf) . Basic life cycles are taught within the science curriculum (e.g. life cycles, hatching chicks) in reception and key stage 1.