RSHE
RSHE curriculum overview
RSHE curriculum intent
Our RSHE curriculum has been designed using the SCARF scheme of learning which ensures all curriculum have been covered. Throughout a child’s time at Wellstead, they will revisit topics in our spiral, recursive curriculum which ensures both substantive and disciplinary knowledge is embedded and built upon each year. The journey children take through the objectives and the depth they are covered at are mapped out to ensure they are age appropriate for children and relevant to the children’s lives at that point. Although we have adopted the SCARF scheme, we recognise that our school is different from others and are adopting unique units which meet the needs of our children and community. It is also adapted to embed our school values throughout the learning journeys.
In early years, children will be introduced to a new theme each week and learning will include adult-guided activities, discussion points, development through independent play and opportunities to learn through stories. From Year 1 to Year 6, children will take part in 6 units throughout the year – Me and My Relationships, Valuing Difference, Keeping Safe, Rights and Respect, Being my Best and Growing and Changing. Each half term, children will have a series of ‘I can’ statements which both them and their teacher will assess them against. These ‘I can’ statements are taught to children throughout each topic using a variety of pedagogical approaches.
Throughout children’s time at Wellstead, the RSHE curriculum has some overlap with science and computing objects. It also links to other areas of the curriculum as children learn how to take part in discussions, respect other’s opinions, work well with others and to be inclusive.
By the end of children’s RSHE journey through Wellstead, we aim to equip children with the knowledge and skills they require to go out into the world and be a positive, safe, respectful and inclusive citizen.
At Wellstead, our RSHE curriculum is ambitious as we aim to ensure all children become positive Wellstead citizens regardless of background or barriers to learning. Lessons will provide support for all children and appropriate challenge to ensure all children reach their full potential. Our curriculum goes beyond the National Curriculum objectives as we tailor topics to cohorts and the school and ensure we respond quickly and effectively to needs or issues that arise, both locally and globally.
RSHE is at the core of all the opportunities children receive at Wellstead as children will be using the skills they have learnt to participate and engage positively on trips, at clubs and with visitors. More specific to RSHE, children will take part in SCARF workshops once a year and, in Year 5, a group of children will be invited to attend a Honeypots residential to continue to develop these skills. Throughout their time at Wellstead, children will also participate in bikeability, e-safety week, anti-bullying week, diversity week, children’s mental health week and visits from the emergency services.
Parents do have the right to request that their child be withdrawn from some or all of sex education delivered as part of statutory RSE. This would always be a last resort following transparent consultation with parents to ensure that they have an understanding of the aims, benefits and importance of the curriculum and the way that it is approached by the school.