PSHE AND HEALTH EDUCATION AND RELATIONSHIPS EDUCATION
At Coteford Infant School we have adopted the SCARF approach to delivering our Personal, Social, Health and Relationship lessons.
SCARF's whole-school approach promotes positive behaviour, mental health, wellbeing, resilience and achievement. More than just a PSHE scheme of work, SCARF supports great learning every day. SCARF represents core values for children of Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience and Friendship.
Alongside SCARF lessons, we have visits from a SCARF trained educator who is able to deliver fun, engaging and memorable PSHE Education workshops to children. During these workshops, children meet Harold, the giraffe puppet, and have discussions about confidence and the power of resilience. This links in well with our whole school approach to developing resilient and independent learners, and the concept of James Nottingham's Learning Pit.
RELATIONSHIPS EDUCATION, HEALTH EDUCATION AND RELATIONSHIPS AND SEX EDUCATION (RSE)
EMOTIONAL LITERACY AND ZONES OF REGULATION
Our children select a feeling each day when they register. Zones of Regulation is embedded into our wider curriculum and this serves to support our children with the development emotional literacy alongside good coping strategies and safe ways of expressing difficult feelings.
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.