PSHE including citizenship (PSHE)
At Sherborne Primary, PSHE is a key part of the curriculum that helps children develop the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, and independent lives and to become thoughtful, responsible members of their community.
We follow the SCARF programme (which stands for Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience and Friendship), developed by Coram Life Education, to deliver a comprehensive and engaging PSHE curriculum. This whole-school approach supports children’s mental health, emotional literacy, behaviour, relationships, and personal development.
Through weekly lessons, assemblies, and cross-curricular links, our PSHE curriculum:
· Builds emotional awareness and resilience
· Encourages respectful relationships and kindness
· Helps children manage risk and stay safe (both online and offline)
· Promotes physical and mental health
· Develops skills for future life—including money, goals, and citizenship
PSHE plays a key role in realising our school vision of Achieving, Belonging, Caring, nurturing pupils who are confident, kind, and equipped to thrive as part of a positive and inclusive community.
Relationships and Health Education (RHE)
As part of our PSHE curriculum, we teach the statutory Relationships and Health Education (RHE) requirements. Children learn about:
· Families and friendships
· Safe relationships and consent
· Growing up and their changing bodies
· Physical health, wellbeing and puberty
· Emotional wellbeing and staying safe
We work closely with SCARF and families to ensure these topics are taught in a supportive, age-appropriate, and inclusive way.
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Children need to embrace the ever-changing world around them, understand and respect the beliefs, backgrounds, and worldviews of the people they will encounter throughout their lives, and develop their own set of beliefs and values. We believe that meaningful and thought-provoking Religious Education makes a distinctive and valuable contribution to the school curriculum.
Our aim is to provide children with knowledge of the key concepts that underpin worldviews and to explore how these influence individuals, cultures, behaviours, and national life. We adopt an enquiry-based pedagogy, rooted in the religions and worldviews approach. This enables pupils to consider religion and worldviews as lenses through which people understand themselves, others, and the world.
We follow the locally agreed syllabus, REFresh 2025–2030. In the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), children are introduced to core Christian beliefs through six key enquiry questions, alongside important stories from other traditions. In Key Stage 1, children explore the worldviews of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. In Key Stage 2, they build on this foundation and also study Humanism, the Sanātana Dharma tradition, and Buddhism.
Each unit of work is centred around an overarching enquiry question, which provides a context for a range of engaging and meaningful learning experiences. Religious Education is concerned with the deep meanings individuals and groups attach to their experiences, and how these help them find purpose in life. We aim to provide opportunities for children to explore, interpret, and respond to both religious and non-religious worldviews, as well as their own experiences.
Reflecting on feelings, attitudes, beliefs, values, and relationships—and developing empathy—is an integral part of Religious Education. This makes a significant contribution to children’s spiritual development.
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