Personal, Social and Health Education and Citizenship (PSHE) is central to the educational entitlement of all children at Rupert House School and permeates all aspects of school life.
It gives the children the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy and independent lives. It also helps them to recognize how they are developing personally and socially and prepares them for the many moral, social and cultural issues that they will come across as they grow up. While it is timetabled as a separate subject, it is also an integral part of the whole curriculum and is encompassed within the teaching of most subjects.
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The children explore a range of issues in PSHE and Citizenship. The programme is designed to help them develop self-esteem, self-confidence and self-worth. We aim to enable them to become confident in their abilities to choose healthy, satisfying, informed, active and responsible life styles.
By building positive working relationships between children and staff, all members of our school family are valued as individuals and pupils see the need for good manners, self discipline and appropriate behaviour.
We provide opportunities for PSHE and citizenship through a variety of strategies
- Individual or group work
- Active involvement and participation by the children through discussion and role play
- Providing opportunities for the children to share thoughts and feelings, hopes and aspirations
- Preparation and presentation of tasks for differing audiences
- Positive self assessment through reflection
- Outings and visits within the community
- Consolidation and reinforcement in the form of written work, action plans, etc
- Positive marking
- Encouraging children to make choices and take responsibility
- Form teachers making time and space available to talk and listen to pupils through a variety of means eg, feelings and news board in Y6, things that make us happy board in Y4
Above all, we aim to develop pupils’ self-esteem and their belief in their ability to succeed.
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