Intake Primary School

Implementation

Teaching and learning style

We use a range of teaching and learning styles throughout the school. We place an emphasis on active learning by including the children in discussions, investigations and problem solving activities. We encourage the children to take part in a range of practical activities that promote active citizenship, e.g. involvement in an activity to help other individuals or groups less fortunate than themselves.

We organise classes in such a way that pupils are able to participate in discussion to resolve conflicts or set agreed classroom rules of behaviour. We offer children the opportunity to hear visiting speakers, such as health workers, police, and representatives from the local church, whom we invite into the school to talk about their role in creating a positive and supportive local community.

Some of the time we introduce PSHE and Citizenship through other subjects, e.g. when teaching about local environmental issues in geography. As there is a large overlap between the programme of study for religious education and the aims of PSHE and citizenship, we teach a considerable amount of PSHE and citizenship through our religious education lessons. We also develop PSHE and citizenship through activities and whole-school events, e.g. Anti-bullying Week, Languages day, Disabilities Awareness, Black History Month, Dyspraxia Awareness day, Harvest festival, World Climate Day, Children in Need day, Children’s Mental Health Week, International Women’s Day, Sports Relief, World Autism Day, Health eating Week and the school council who meet regularly to discuss matters, made up of representatives from each class.

The children’s self-worth is developed and nurtured in all aspects of school life at Intake Primary. Personal achievements are celebrated throughout Intake Primary in many ways including; a behaviour system in place in all classroom; house points system; lucky tokens; Super Learner of the week; Maths Super Star, Attendance Award, a sharing assembly each week where pupils can showcase their learning, Good Terms Work and Gold Awards.

Foundation Stage

We teach PSHE and citizenship in reception classes as an integral part of the topic work covered during the year. As the reception classes are part of the Foundation Stage we relate the PSHE and citizenship aspects of the children’s work to the objectives set out in the Early Learning Goals (ELGs). Our teaching in PSHE and citizenship matches the aim of developing a child’s personal, emotional and social development as set out in the ELGs. We also support citizenship education in reception classes when we teach ‘how to develop a child’s knowledge and understanding of the world’.

Teaching PSHE and citizenship to children with special education needs

At our school we teach PSHE and citizenship to all children, whatever their ability. PSHE and citizenship forms part of the school curriculum policy to provide a broad and balanced education to all children. Through our PSHE and citizenship teaching we provide learning opportunities that enable all pupils to make progress. We do this by setting suitable learning challenges and responding to each child’s different needs. We enable pupils to have access to the full range of activities involved in learning PSHE and citizenship.

Assessment and recording

Teachers assess the children’s work in PSHE and citizenship both by making informal judgements as they observe them during lessons and by doing formal assessments of their work, measured against the objectives set. We have clear expectations of what the pupils will know, understand and be able to do at the end of each key stage and each topic. We report these achievements to parents each year. We also regularly work with outside agencies.

Impact - Monitoring and review

The PSHE and citizenship subject leader is responsible for monitoring the standards of children’s work and the quality of teaching. The subject leader supports colleagues in the teaching of PSHE and citizenship by giving them information about current developments in the subject and by providing a strategic lead and direction for the subject in the school. Although the frameworks for PSHE and Citizenship (Key Stages 1 and 2) are not statutory they contain some statutory elements.

• Aspects of health and sex relationship education are included in the science programmes of study and physical education programme of study and covered in SRE lessons.
• Aspects of citizenship education are included in the history and geography programmes of study and syllabuses.
• In all national curriculum subjects, teachers are required to make effective Provision for all pupils.
• Aspects of behavioural and discipline management are required by Section 154 of the 1996 Education Act.
• Education Act 2002. All schools must provide a broad and balanced curriculum which promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.