PSHE Policy
PSHE Policy
Approved by Adele Clark, Headteacher
Date: October 2025
Last review: October 2025
Next review: September 2026
Contents
4. Roles and responsibilities 4
6. Links with other policies 5
1. Aims
The aims of personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education in our school are to help pupils:
- Gain the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions
- Understand how to stay healthy and active
- Positively contribute to school life and life in the wider community
- Develop an understanding of democracy and how to voice their views
Through our curriculum, our school environment, our school ethos and the strength of our relationships, we strive to promote pupils’ self-esteem and emotional and physical well-being and help them to form and maintain worthwhile and satisfying relationships, based on respect for themselves and for others, at home, at school, at work and in the community.
Through our curriculum we want our pupils to know and understand what constitutes a healthy lifestyle and develop a growing awareness of a broad range of safety issues.
Pupil voice lies at the heart of our school and the curriculum and opportunities we offer our pupils mean that pupils grow into independent, active and responsible members of our school community playing an active part in decision making.
In order to flourish, thrive and develop into happy adults who contribute effectively to society, pupils at Co-op Academy Woodlands develop their personalities and behaviour through the specific focus on important values that enable them to reflect, learn, behave with integrity and work consistently well with others. With these skills, combined with the development of responsibility and resilience, pupils are then able to draw upon their understanding in order to engage and excel in the ever-changing world in which they live both now and in the future.
Our overarching curriculum intent states:
Our ambitious curriculum is designed to help pupils discover their talents and interests, and hence, understand what success means and feels like for them. Through our curriculum, we prioritise pupils’ moral development. We are passionate about our children having the courage to make the right moral choices, regardless of who is watching.
2. Statutory requirements
PSHE is a non-statutory subject. However, there are aspects of it that we are required to teach.
- We must teach relationships education under the Children and Social Work Act 2017, in line with the terms set out in statutory guidance
- We must teach health education under the same statutory guidance
This policy also complies with the terms of our funding agreement.
3. Content and delivery
3.1 What we teach
As stated above, we are required to cover the content for relationships education, and health education, as set out in the statutory guidance (linked to above).
Refer to our relationships and sex education policy for details about what we teach, and how we decide on what to teach, in this subject. This policy can be found on the school website.
For other aspects of PSHE, including health education, see the attached curriculum map/below for more details about what we teach in each year group. .
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lk6Zi3kbc538t5wO79n1OQhGh4w8S8U0ZoeDhfAOO2M/edit?tab=t.0
Alongside our KAPOW scheme of work we also use Skills Builder is a part PSHE and Career Related Learning offer. Skills builder is a strategic programme, used throughout Primary and Secondary schools, Sixth forms and beyond into apprentices and the working environment.
Skills Builder Partnership is a global movement of employers, educators, and impact organisations working together to ensure that one day, everyone builds the essential skills to succeed. More information around the universal framework can be found here: https://www.skillsbuilder.org/universal-framework
3.2 How we teach it
Use this section to set out:
- PSHE lessons are taught weekly by the class teacher as part of the whole school curriculum.
- Themes are covered during assemblies and when there are relevant events happening nationally we include and address these accordingly.
- Class teachers are responsible for the delivery of lessons but there are outside agencies brought in across the school year to deliver workshops on key themes.
- Lessons are taught and teachers use adaptive practice to ensure all pupils’ are included.
- Lesson expectations are set out with staff and pupils’ at the beginning of lessons and any inappropriate questions will be reported using the correct procedures. Staff are aware of the rules around sharing political beliefs in line with trust policies.
- KAPOW is used for the lesson plans and resources and teachers support this with TLAC strategies used in whole school teaching.
- Pre and post assessments are used with topics for teachers to gain an understanding of pupils’ prior knowledge at the start of new topics.
4. Roles and responsibilities
4.1 The governing board
The governing board will approve the PSHE policy and hold the headteacher to account for its implementation.
4.2 The headteacher
The headteacher is responsible for ensuring that PSHE is taught consistently across the school.
4.3 Staff
Staff are responsible for:
- Delivering PSHE in a sensitive way and providing a safe environment.
- Modelling positive attitudes to PSHE
- Responding to the needs of individual pupils
4.4 Subject Leader
The subject leader is responsible for monitoring progress alongside class teachers. The PSHE leader ensures they are kept informed of relevant changes to aspects of PSHE by attending local cluster meetings and PSHE network meetings. The Co-ordinator will support colleagues in the teaching of PSHE by giving them information about current developments in the subject and providing a strategic lead and direction for the subject in school.
4.4 Pupils
Pupils are expected to engage fully in PSHE and, when discussing issues related to PSHE, treat others with respect and sensitivity.
5. Monitoring arrangements
The delivery of PSHE is monitored by Lynsey Pinch PSHE lead through:
Pupil voice, book looks, teacher questionnaires, lesson observations.
This policy will be reviewed by Adele Clark, our Headteacher.
6. Links with other policies
This policy links to the following policies and procedures:
- Relationships, sex and health education (RSHE)] policy
- Positive Behaviour policy
- Safeguarding policy
- Anti-Bullying policy
- Online Safety policy