Subject Leader: Laura Meehan

Intent

Our PSHE curriculum empowers pupils with essential life skills. As the children grow and move through different key stages, they take part in various collaborative discussions that cover and tackle a wide range of core themes and topics.  Themed and key language is at the forefront of each theme or topic that scaffolds and supports meaning and understanding.  The teaching and delivery of PSHE at Corby Primary Academy is undertaken in various creative and expressive ways that provide interesting and inclusive lessons for all pupils to access at their own level of understanding.  Such creative learning creates memorable opportunities and workshops that encourage pupils to take risks and be bold with their ideas and opinions in their own way.

Implementation:

Our PSHE curriculum is supplemented by Coram Life Education, which aims to promote positive behaviour, mental health, wellbeing, resilience and achievement.  The scheme equips you with everything needed to support new statutory changes in Health Education and Relationships Education.  It delivers its core values through six termly themes.  We want our pupils to be able to build on knowledge of various topics as well as having the opportunity to relate their own experiences and develop their own confidence to question, examine and begin to think critically about their own beliefs.

The Coram Life Education scheme that we use to support our delivery of PSHE at Corby Primary Academy provides a clear progressive route that begins at Nursery level.

The delivery of PSHE encompasses six different modules across all key stages.  Each termly module provides statutory links to ensure that requirements are met across all year groups.

To ensure skill progression, each module follows a pattern of learning.  Every module is introduced with a baseline starter assessment to assess current knowledge, then building on knowledge takes place with the same assessment being completed at the end of each module, to demonstrate progress.  Word banks and key vocabulary are taught and used alongside each themed module.

Coram subtly threads inclusivity throughout the programme, which allows teachers to have autonomy to expand on specific content, in response to the needs of differing cohorts.  Celebrations of these modules are collected in a collaborative way in the form of a class floor book.  This allows children to express and present their learning in a variety of ways. 

We aim to support and equip our children with the knowledge, skills and attributes needed to thrive as they grow and develop.  Our scheme is very adaptable for our teachers and allows them to adapt and enrich as they feel appropriate, with opportunities to relocate and revisit learning in different key stages according to the readiness and needs of the children.

Impact:

The expected impact of following the Coram scheme of learning is that children will :

• Learn and think on both an independent and collaborative level.
• Continuously build on previous knowledge as they progress through the familiar themed modules.
• Use and apply key vocabulary within class discussions to further their skills and understanding of various topics.
• Be aware of their own learning and progress through the use of various assessment tools at the beginning and end of each module.
• Begin to take risks and be BOLD with their ideas and opinions.