Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE)

At Stoke Park Infant School, we place a high importance on personal development and nurturing all children. 

PSHE is taught as part of our weekly curriculum and we follow the NHS My Happy Mind programme.  This includes the following modules: brain, celebrate, appreciate, relate, engage.  The children learn about their brain and how it helps them.  They learn about strategies such as 'happy breathing', the benefits of calming strategies and how to use them.  They find out about Character Strengths that make us unique and special: Love and Kindness, Bravery and Honesty, Teamwork and Friendship, Exploring and Learning, Love of Life and Our World.  The My Happy Mind programme helps children to learn about showing appreciation and gratitude, listening to others, looking at different perspectives and building successful friendships.  It enables children to learn how to set goals and reflect on their goals. 

Our Ranger Rules (We are respectful, We are kind, We are hardworking) and our Ranger Skills (Co-operative Ant, Busy Bee and Challenge Spider) are taught and promoted through our PSHE curriculum. 

Our PSHE lessons also cover a variety of topics linked to health, relationships, personal and social skills. This includes E-Safety where the children learn how to keep safe when using computing and devices. Relationships and Health Education forms part of our PSHE curriculum.  In line with the DfE statutory requirements for RSE and HE, the children will be taught about the following: Families and people who care for me, caring friendships, respectful relationships, online relationships, being safe, mental wellbeing, internet safety and harms, physical health and fitness, healthy eating, drugs, alcohol and tobacco, health and prevention and basic first aid.

Our intent is to teach children to recognise, understand and know how to deal with feelings, issues and situations they may face as part of growing up and to prepare them to be responsible, caring and healthy members of society in their adult life. We follow the My Happy Mind programme, which is supplemented by PSHE Association units of study in KS1 and the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum in Year R. We place a strong emphasis on fostering characteristics for effective learning throughout the school. In Year R we capitalise upon opportunities for: playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically. These characteristics link strongly to our whole school ethos and values, with our Ranger Skills promoted throughout all year groups. By nurturing these characteristics of effective learning at Stoke Park Infant School, we aim to enable children to form attitudes to learning that will last a lifetime.