PSHE/SMSC/Citizenship/Jigsaw
At Victoria School, Personal Social and Health Education is central to the education of the whole child through a broad and balanced curriculum. PHSE/SMSC is the overarching umbrella that encompasses personal development across the curriculum.
Personal, social and health education (PSHE) helps to give children and young people the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy and independent lives. It aims to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. It offers learning opportunities across and beyond the curriculum, in specific lessons as well as in assemblies, circle time, special school projects and other activities that enrich pupils' experiences.
Our Intent is that pupils
- should be safe, secure and happy in school learning how to stay safe in the community and online.
- have equal access to the curriculum, regardless of ability, gender, race or religion.
- develop an appreciation of the importance of responsible behaviour and consideration of others.
- spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is promoted in order to prepare them to become valued members of an ever-changing, multi-cultural society.
SMSC promotes the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils at the school and of society. It prepares pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life and of how to be educated citizens
Our PSHE/SMSC/Citizenship/Jigsaw curriculum follows the guidelines and aims of Development Matters, birth to five and the communication and language toolkit for EYFS and the National Curriculum in England for Key Stages 1 and 2.
