Key Stage 1
Personal Health and Social Education
PHSE aims to promote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of children as well as preparing them for the opportunities responsibilities and experiences of adult life. It provides a basis for children within which they can grow in confidence as people and become informed, thoughtful, responsible, healthy and safe members of society. PHSE and Citizenship enable pupils to have an understanding about their role in their personal development, becoming an active citizen, keeping safe and understanding relationships.
It complements and supports work done across the curriculum in school and with citizenship includes : relationships education, drugs education (including tobacco, alcohol and medicines), bullying awareness, safety, civic rights, duties and responsibilities and developing thinking skills so children are equipped to make safe and healthy choices as they grow up.
The skills taught include:
- How to make informed decisions to keep themselves safe and healthy.
- Assessing, avoiding and managing risk.
- Communicating effectively.
- Resisting pressures.
- Understanding rules, rights and responsibilities.
- Consider different points of view.
- Explore moral, social and cultural issues.
- Discuss and debate topical issues.
PHSE helps pupils to:
- acquire knowledge and understanding of themselves, of others and of the world they live in;
- develop skills for living;
- understand and manage their emotions;
- become morally and socially responsible;
- take on a range of roles and relationships;
- value themselves and respect others;
- contribute to their community;
- appreciate difference and diversity;
- participate actively in our democracy;
- safeguard the environment;
- act in the wider world in a way that makes the most of their own and others' human potential.