PSHE

Long Term Plan: Single and Mixed Age Year Groups:

Structuring the PSHE Curriculum:

The TVED Curriculum for PSHE is crafted using the programmes of study from the ‘PSHE Association’ and ‘The Jubilee Centre for Character Education’. We compliment these with ‘The Curiosity Library’ and ‘Pol-Ed’ ensuring high-quality, progressive planning and resources across all phases.

The TVED curriculum PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) is thoughtfully structured to support the holistic development of every pupil, in line with the statutory requirements set out in the Department for Education’s Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education guidance. It is designed to build knowledge, skills, and attitudes that empower children to make safe, informed, and positive choices now and in the future. The curriculum is carefully sequenced to reflect pupils’ growing understanding and emotional maturity. By fostering self-awareness, empathy, resilience, responsible citizenship along with the virtues and values of character education, our PSHE programme helps prepare pupils to thrive personally, socially, and academically.

In addition to the planned curriculum, the school delivers a responsive PSHE curriculum that addresses local, national, and global events as they arise, ensuring pupils are supported to understand and navigate current issues in a timely, age-appropriate, and sensitive way.

Vertical Concepts:

Vertical concepts are the more abstract ideas or threads that build gradually and with increasing depth across the multiple contexts encountered by pupils as they move through our curriculum. In the context of the TVED curriculum, the three thematic strands of the PSHE Association programme of study along with the Jubilee Centre for Character Education programme of study are considered the four vertical concepts that are woven throughout the PSHE curriculum offer. It includes:

Relationships

Living in the Wider World​

Health and Wellbeing

Character Education (Normal Text)

Knowledge:

In the TVED PSHE curriculum, the learning objectives and opportunities provided are termed the knowledge. Each strand is organised into the following key areas.

Relationships:

• Families and Friendships
• Safe Relationships
• Respecting Ourselves and Others

Living in the Wider World:​

• Belonging to a Community
• Media Literacy and Digital Resilience
• Money and Work

Health and Wellbeing:

• Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing
• Growing and Changing
• Keeping Safe

Character Education

• Caring; Helpfulness; Cooperation; Courage; Kindness
• Cleanliness; Fairness; Friendliness; Service Project; Patience; Respect
• Courtesy; Forgiveness; Determination; Self-Discipline; Gratitude; Honesty