PSHE

Why do we deliver the SCARF curriculum at Boothroyd?

At Boothroyd Primary Academy, we belief our culture of learning is centred around the school’s motto ‘We empower all so we can all shine brightly’ and the school’s values of ‘Honesty, Excellence, Aspiration, Respect, Teamwork’.

In September 2020, Relationships Education became compulsory in all primary schools in England. Health Education (of which puberty education is a key part) is also compulsory.

We have chosen Coram Education’s SCARF PHSE curriculum to support our delivery. The SCARF curriculum is built on the foundations of distilled versions of the key core themes in the Early Years Curriculum - referred to as personal, social and emotional development and the National Curriculum that are readily accessible and pertinent:

•Health and well being

•Relationships

•Living in the wider world

The National Curriculum for PSHE education addresses both pupils’ current experiences and preparation for their future.

Our school values and the huge emphasis we place on recognising and celebrating the children’s heritage, culture and diversity is also reflected in this scheme. This is fundamentally important to our community and what makes it so special. We want to prepare each child to be a global citizen in a diverse society and prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences required for later life.

How do we implement PSHE at Boothroyd?

At Boothroyd, we have adopted the SCARF programme to support the delivery our PSHE curriculum, on a weekly basis. The SCARF programme has been carefully chosen to ensure our curriculum complies with the new RSE statutory requirements, along with ensuring we deliver SMSC and British Values.

The SCARF programme enables our children to develop and build their skills and knowledge, year on year, with each new topic building on the previous one.

Within the SCARF curriculum there are 6 key themes/drivers which are taught within every year group. These are:

•Me and my relationships

•Valuing difference

•Keeping myself safe

•Rights and responsibilities

•Being my best

•Growing and changing

British Values and Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) along with RSE are carefully woven throughout the SCARF curriculum. This enables our children to become successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors.

Relationships: Our children will examine the impact of feelings and emotions, develops skills to manage conflict, help identity special people and equips them to recognise the qualities of healthy friendships and how to manage them. This driver links directly with our school value - Teamwork.

Differences: Within the curriculum, there is a strong focus on British Values which helps children to develop respectful relationships with others, recognise bullying and understand their responsibilities as a bystander.

Keeping Safe: Our children will consider a number of safety aspects from statutory Relationships Education including being able to identify trusted adults in their lives, what to do when faced with a dilemma and recognising appropriate and inappropriate touch. The children will also gain a deeper understanding of the term ‘consent’ and ‘respect’ with the later being a school value.

Rights and Responsibilities: This driver investigates broader topics including looking after the environment, economic education and the changing rights and responsibilities children have as they grow older which also explores the school value of Honesty.

Being My Best: This driver links directly with our school values – aspiration and excellence. There is a focus on keeping physically healthy, developing a growth mindset and resilience, setting goals and ways to achieve them.

Growing and Changing: This key driver enables children to learn the physical and emotional changes that happen to them as they grow older, including changes at puberty and how to approach this with confidence. Age appropriate lessons on relationships and sex education will always take place.

These SCARF curriculum drivers define our PHSE approach at Boothroyd. Each child will progressively acquire, knowledge and skills to make safe informed decisions.

There are always occasions where staff may feel it necessary to teach PSHE as a result of an issue arisen in their own class, this will always be carried out in a sensitive manner and use resources where appropriate to support children’s understanding of the issue.

We have a curriculum where all year groups are taught the same key driver unit simultaneously. Through doing this, we are able to plan and deliver assemblies and whole school events linked directly to the drivers and National Curriculum theme so they run parallel to the PHSE curriculum delivery. This allows the children to have a deeper understanding of key terminology and knowledge being covered through a wider platform across Boothroyd. It also provides opportunities for staff to collaborate in planning, facilitates in-lesson support, and simplifies the process of monitoring subjects across all key stages from Early Years to Year 6 as well as supporting with transition to secondary school.

Our children and staff are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community

SCARF PHSE Long Term Plan Reception - Year 6

PHSE RSE SCARF Boothroyd Policy - June 2023

For more information about other ways in which we implement PSHE, please see the PSHE offer document.

PSHE offer

How do we monitor PSHE at Boothroyd?

The aim of our PSHE curriculum is to develop each child so that they leave our school with an understanding and knowledge about safe relationships, healthy lifestyles and internet safety for a modern day society.

As a result of our offer, across a child’s primary career with us at Boothroyd, we hope pupils will leave us:

•With the ability to successfully articulate their own thoughts and beliefs whilst able to remain respectful of others.

•Have a strong sense of self that supports them in their transition to their next stage of life and education.

•With a broad view of the world, in which pupils will be ready to contribute in a positive manner to society and continue their journey of developing an even greater understanding of the world and people around them.

•Pupils will continue to uphold our school values of Honesty, Excellence, Aspirations, Respect and Teamwork and promote these as member of society.

•Continue to ‘shine brightly’ in everything that they do.

•Continue to be happy, healthy, resilient and confident.

•Continue to appropriately question new phenomena and to share and seek out new knowledge as they develop in their own world.

We also keep in contact with our community and families due to family members continuing to attend our school. This allows us the opportunity to continue to have dialogues about former pupils and their successes within their new journey.

Throughout the children’s time at Boothroyd, we continually measure the impact of our PSHE in many ways, including:

•Observations

•Book looks

•Teacher planning

•Pupil voice

•Staff voice

•Parent voice

PSHE in Action

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Pupil Voice

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RSE

In September 2020 Relationships Education became compulsory in all primary schools in England. Health Education (of which puberty education is a key part) is also compulsory.

Why do we teach RSE at Boothroyd?

At Boothroyd, we know and understand that relationships are key to leading a happy and successful life within our modern day society and we want our pupils, from Boothroyd, to be able to flourish and succeed within their local and wider communities.

It is our aim, within our PSHE and RSE curriculum – that is delivered throughout our SCARF scheme – that we enable our pupils to have an understanding about different relationships and how to live a healthy lifestyle. We promote our pupils to have a voice and be able to share their opinions and thoughts in an appropriate way.

We foster and encourage our pupils to adopt our school values HEART (Honesty, Excellence, Aspirations, Respect and Teamwork) which we believe are core values in making sure our children are ready and equipped to continue their education and further career opportunities.

We understand that as our pupils grow older, they will be faced with a range of situations within their social groups, which is why we ensure that our pupils have the necessary and age-appropriate information to make sure they can make informed decisions to keep themselves safe. This also includes making sure that they have an understanding and gain knowledge about keeping themselves safe on the internet and on social media, as we are aware that this plays a pivotal part in today’s society.

“Relationships Education in primary schools should teach the fundamental building blocks and characteristics of positive relationships, with particular reference to friendships, family relationships, and relationships with other peers and adults. At Coram Life Education we believe that children should learn about relationships as well as the emotional, social and physical aspects of growing up, human sexuality and sexual health in an age-appropriate way, the majority of which is covered in Health Education and National Curriculum Science. Therefore we often refer to this subject as RSE: Relationships and Sex Education. Our Relationships and Sex Education resources help children and young people to be safe, healthy and happy, both as they grow, and in their future lives. These lessons help to meet safeguarding, and emotional wellbeing requirements, as well as ensuring that schools cover the requirements of the DfE RSHE guidance.” – SCARF website

How do we implement RSE at Boothroyd?

To support our pupils, parents, staff and our local community, we have implemented the SCARF scheme to support our delivery of RSE. The SCARF scheme, meets “all DfE requirements for statutory Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE), SCARF is a complete curriculum consisting of over 350 lesson plans and related assessment that gives teachers the skills and tools to teach a comprehensive RSHE, PSHE and Wellbeing programme throughout the primary years.”

We implement our RSE curriculum as:

•Part of SCARF and weaved in through the drivers and builds on learning each year – all age-appropriate.

•Myths are addressed and put right.

•SEND are supported by using a range of strategies such comic strips/social stories to teach body language and different scenarios.

•Workshops from SCARF and parent workshops.

•Connections with the local Mosques about RSE and it’s content.

•Road maps available for parents to show the content.

•Consultation with parents.

•Links to other areas of the curriculum including Science, PE.

•Staff have completed CPD to support delivering RSE and SCARF.

For more information about what we cover, please see the road maps below:

RSE Roadmaps

How do we monitor RSE at Boothroyd?

The aim of our RSE curriculum is to develop each child so that they leave our school with an understanding and knowledge about safe relationships, healthy lifestyles and internet safety for a modern day society.