PSHE
At Stockton Wood Primary School, we aim to develop the whole child in order to prepare them for the future. Our school ethos, ‘Laying the Foundations for Life’, provides the basis for our teaching and development in all areas of learning, but provides a direct insight into how our children grow. Through the teaching and deliverance of our PSHE and RSE curriculum, we hope to provide children with the emotional skills needed to grow up to be happy, healthy and safe, and be able to manage challenges and opportunities that present themselves.
From an early age, we believe that children thrive with nurture, and learn best from real life experiences. With this in mind, we ensure opportunities to develop skills such as turn taking, sharing and caring and respecting others are plentiful. We provide opportunities for children to learn key behaviours, and how to adapt their behaviours in different situations. Children learn that they are responsible for their own behaviours, for themselves and for their environment.
We deliver our PSHE and RSE curriculum through the use of the SCARF programme. SCARF stands for Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience and Friendship. Through SCARF, children learn about thoughts and feelings, both of their own and others. They learn about rights and responsilbilities, and the views and needs of people of all ages. Children learn how to be a member of a team, class and school community and how to communicate within those effectively. This closely links to our whole school approach of Restorative Practice.
RSE is taught in an age appropriate way throughout the school. We also teach responsively, so will actively alter our teaching in response to something that has presented itself. We teach children in a way that prepares them for the future.
PSHE Chatter
Year 2 Scarf/PSHE
In scarf we discussed secrets and how some secrets are nice to keep like birthday surprises. Secrets that make us sad or worried should always be shared with a trusted adult. We used drama skills to bring this learning to life.
LGBTQ+ Week
5M are working hard with a partner to research famous LGBTQ activists. We will present our findings before planning and writing biographies.
LGBTQ+ week
Today we read the story of ‘Pirate Mums’. As a class we discussed different types of families, we talked about families with 1 mum, 2 mums, a mum and a dad, 1 dad, 2 dads and how we are all different but we are still loved and cared for.
Safer internet Day!
Year 5 discussed online safety and how to be careful to avoid scams and fake news online. Some of our lucky children went to Anfield to represent our school in further discussions.
Valentine’s hugs
Today, we talked about how Valentine’s Day is all about love and friendship. We talked about all the people we love, and spoke about ways we can express our love to our family and friends. Lots of children suggested hugs, so that’s exactly what we did! How better to spread joy than to paint each other a picture, and give each other a cuddle…then our paintings will match! True friendship ❤️🥰
School Council meeting
Our school council were busy this morning, thinking of ideas for special rewards for reading at home and also for charities to donate to as part of our Social Impact Schools Award.
Staying safe, indoors and outdoors
Last week, we talked about how we stay safe both indoors and outdoors. The children were fantastic – they knew straight away that we must follow rules to stay safe. The children were able to confidently talk about the rules we have in nursery to keep our classroom safe and happy, so we moved outside. We looked at the road, and talked about some of the dangers we might come across and how we can keep ourselves safe.
Quiet Place
4D enjoyed giving each other a peer message in our whole class Quiet Place session today.
Hard work pays off!
Out-of-school success for a proud member of 5M.
If you believe, you can achieve!
CO (Carbon Monoxide) safety assembly!
We learnt an important message today about Carbon Monoxide (otherwise known as CO) safety.
You can’t see it, hear it, smell it, taste it or touch it!
Homework task:
- Check if you have a CO alarm in your home!
- Make a note of the signs and symptoms to look out for and also the number to call if you suspect any CO in your home.
Dogs Trust
Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed a workshop today with Dogs Trust. We learned how to correctly approach a dog and different ways to ensure we are safe around them.
Year 4 – Dogs Trust
Today we had an interesting session from the dogs trust. 🐕🦺🐩🦮 We learnt about how dogs use their senses and how to safely interact with dogs.
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Life savers big question 3!
What can we use our money for?
We discussed how often we consider our life saver values when we make a financial decision and shared ideas of how to be generous, thankful and wise with money.
Many of our children said that they believe they should save for the things they want but only after spending on the things they need. Some said that they would like to give more to charity too.
What is safe to go into my body?
Last week, we talked about what was safe to go onto our bodies such as sun cream, soap, plasters. Building on our learning, this week we talked about what is safe to go into our bodies. We talked about medicine and how this is only safe when it is given to us by a trusted grown up. We also looked at vitamins and at first, we thought they were sweets! Vitamins and medicines come in special bottles and tubs with lids that we can’t do to make sure we don’t have too much.
PSHE- ask permission before sharing
Today we watched a video about asking our friends permission before sharing videos or photos.
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What is safe to go into my body?
Today, we talked about what is safe to go into our bodies. We know that food and drink are safe, but we must remember to ask adults first. We might think a bottle looks like it has juice, but we should check. We talked about how medicine is safe, but we should never take medicine without a grown up – only medicines that are meant to be for children are safe. We also had a go at opening a medicine bottle…but it was too tricky! The special lid is to keep us safe.
Peer massage
Mrs Ritchie helped us use our massage skills that we have recently learned from Maria. We made sure to ask permission before we started 💆♀️
