Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education

PSHCE is an important part of our curriculum and underpins the ethos of our school. We firmly believe in encouraging children to lead healthy lives through a range of daily activities and incorporate these principles into our curriculum.

PSHE at South Hylton Primary Academy
It is our intention that our PSHE education will help pupils prepare for all the opportunities, challenges, life decisions, and responsibilities they’ll face.

The curriculum for PSHE incorporates all aspects of SMSC, Citizenship, British Values, as well as the statutory content of the RSHE programme of study. At South Hylton Primary Academy, our vision aims to create a happy, purposeful, and supportive environment where children are enabled to become successful learners, develop to their full potential, and achieve the highest educational standards they can. We aim to promote positive mental health for every member of our school community, including pupils, staff, and families.

The curriculum is organised into whole-school themes (Wellbeing; Family and Relationships, Health and Wellbeing, Safety and the Changing Body, Citizenship and Economic Wellbeing) which the children revisit each year, consolidating and enriching their knowledge and skills.

Additionally, as pupils move through school, children learn the language needed to express their own ideas and explore those of others empathetically.

Relationships Education
From January 2021, Relationships and Health Education became a statutory requirement in primary schools. In November 2020, we carried out a consultation with stakeholders, which helped us ensure our curriculum meets the needs of our community. Children learn skills to help them establish and maintain healthy friendships and family relationships. They also learn to recognise and address when any relationship is making them feel unsafe or uncomfortable and how to manage this. The curriculum emphasises the importance of well-being, and children learn how to stay healthy mentally, morally, and physically.

Your child’s class teacher will be able to answer questions about what your child will learn in Relationships and Health Education lessons.

We also supplement this curriculum with a whole range of other vital life skills including: British Values, digital literacy, forest school, first aid training, fire safety, road safety, water safety and many other exciting opportunities. 

We are also a Rights Respecting school and teach the children the 5 Steps to well-being as endorsed by the NHS, as well as using mindfulness techniques as taught through the Breath. program. 

We believe the impact of our curriculum is that our children are: kind and supportive of one another, independent and resilient learners, decision-makers and responsible citizens.

Children learn to value themselves as individuals. We encourage them to develop their own understanding of how to set and achieve personal targets and challenges, looking particularly at aspirations and careers that the children would like to pursue. Most of all, our children are prepared and excited for their futures!

For detailed information about our curriculum and subjects, please visit the Key Information page.