PSHE & Citizenship

The PSHE Curriculum at Cuddington

Cuddington will “Bring out the Best” in our pupils by providing a language rich and diverse experience both within and beyond the classroom. Our flexible approach enables everyone to thrive personally and academically, overcome challenges and prepare them for lifelong learning. 

This is reflected in our curriculum approach to learning PSHE, using the aims set out in DFE guidance and the Kapow scheme of work as frameworks for how we map content, ensure progression in knowledge and sequence our units of work.

Intent, Implementation, Impact

In PSHE, we will bring out the best in our learners through developing emotional literacy and language both within and beyond the classroom preparing them to overcome the personal and academic challenge they will face in everyday life. 

Children will learn how they are developing personally and socially, as well as how to play a positive, active, and successful role in our society now and as an adult in the future. Our curriculum provides students with a knowledge of citizenship on a local, national, and global level and develops a confidence and responsibility to confront many of the moral, social, and cultural issues that come with growing up in a diverse world whilst gaining an appreciation of what they have. Ultimately, we intend for them to develop skills and attributes to keep themselves healthy and safe, show tolerance of others' beliefs, religions, and life choices, and build positive and respectful relationships with others. 

PSHE is delivered through the Kapow PSHE curriculum, which provides clear progression and has a whole school focus each half term, so children across the key stages can learn from and with each other, enabling them to grow into constructive citizens in a constantly changing society and prepare them for life and work in modern Britain. 

Our children will grow into healthy, self-reliant, and responsible citizens who value themselves and others. They will develop into confident, tolerant, and well-rounded adolescents and adults who will be able to approach a variety of real-life circumstances and apply their skills and knowledge to help them navigate life. 

KS1 and KS2 Curriculum Overview

 Further information on the content of each lesson can be found on the Curriculum Maps for each year group.

Citizenship

Over the course of their time in school, pupils will learn about themselves as growing and changing individuals with their own experiences and ideas, and as members of their communities. They become more mature, independent and self-confident. They learn about the wider world and the interdependence of communities within it. They develop their sense of social justice and moral responsibility and begin to understand that their own choices and behaviour can affect local, national or global issues and political and social institutions. They learn how to take part more fully in school and community activities. As they begin to develop into young adults, they face the changes of puberty and transfer to secondary school with support and encouragement from their school. They learn how to make more confident and informed choices about their health and environment; to take more responsibility, individually and as a group, for their own learning; and to resist bullying.