Key Stage 2
During Year 5 and 6, PSHE education offers both explicit and implicit learning opportunities and experiences which reflect pupils’ increasing independence and physical and social awareness. Through close liaison with PSHE leads from our Whitley Bay First Schools, our spiral curriculum ensures that we build on the skills that pupils started to acquire in Year 3 and 4. In Upper Key Stage 2, we also prepare pupils to cope with the changes at puberty, introduces them to a wider world and enables them to make an active contribution to their communities.
The PSHE curriculum at Valley Gardens is inclusive of the objectives in the new statutory guidance for Relationships Education and Health Education (September 2020).
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Year 5 |
Health and Wellbeing: Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing
Healthy sleep habits; sun safety; medicines and vaccines; immunisations and allergies Relationships: Respecting Ourselves and Others Responding respectfully to a wide range of people; recognising prejudice and discrimination Living in the Wider World: Belonging to a Community Protecting the environment; compassion towards others |
Health and Wellbeing: Keeping Safe
Keeping safe in different situations, including responding in emergencies and first aid Relationships: Families and Friendships Managing friendships and peer influence Living in the Wider World: Media Literacy and Digital Resilience How information online is targeted; different media types, their role and impact |
Relationships: Safe Relationships Physical contact and feeling safe Health and Wellbeing: Growing and Changing Physical and emotional changes in puberty; external genitalia; personal hygiene routines; appropriate and inappropriate contact and boundaries Living in the Wider World: Money and Work Identifying job interests and aspirations; what influences career choices; workplace stereotypes |
