Lakeside Primary AcademyPSHE
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." Dr. Seuss
The PSHE Curriculum at Lakeside Primary Academy covers the breadth of PSHE from Relationships and Health Education (RHE) from relationships and health, to economic well-being and careers.
The PSHE Education Programme is taught through its three core themes.
- Health and Well-being - This includes healthy lifestyles, nutrition, growing up, changes to your body, first aid, drugs, alcohol, tobacco and physical, emotional and mental health.
- Relationships - This includes feelings, emotions, bullying, resilience, friendships and healthy relationships.
- Living in the wider world - This includes rules and responsibilities, economic awareness, and managing money.
PSHE helps children to aspire by teaching them how to develop and maintain a healthy body and positive mind; encouraging children to develop a sense of responsibility, pride and ownership of their wellbeing as well as a confidence to overcome problems or situations that arise in their education and life. Through learning about a diverse range of inspirational figures during our PSHE lessons, children are nurtured to develop and embrace their own aspirations. Our pupils will learn how to set long term goals and work on developing the strategies needed to achieve them, whilst remaining mindful of their emotions and wellbeing throughout. This strong sense of awareness allows children to successfully transition into their next phase of learning, both in school and beyond.
Our PSHE curriculum runs in tandem with the RHE curriculum. Through this, we will be developing our understanding of different relationships and what makes them healthy, wellbeing and mental health and safety whilst online which connects to our HTML approach. We celebrate and experience special days including Anti-bullying week, Mental Health week, Children in Need and our Pledge dedicated days. These experiences all support our learners in their emotional, social and moral development by consistently widening their understanding of physical, mental and emotional health. Our children’s character is also developed through the Harmony Pledge, which runs parallel to the PSHE curriculum. Through our Pledge initiative, the children explore and develop 10-character competencies as well as participating and engaging in 10 pledges which enable the children to become outstanding, unique and successful individuals.
Through all of this, our children ASPIRE in PSHE!