Intent Implementation & Impact
RHE at Dobcroft Nursery Infant School
Intent, Implementation and Impact
Intent
Through our Relationship and Health education (RHE), we intend to give children the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy and independent lives. We aim 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. We also teach our children how to make healthy choices and lead a healthy lifestyle.
Implementation
At Dobcroft Nursery Infant School children take part in dedicated RHE teaching sessions each week from FS2 to Year 2. We follow the Jigsaw scheme of work. Our Jigsaw scheme provides a mindful approach to PSHE and is a progressive, spiral scheme of learning. In planning the lessons, Jigsaw PSHE ensures that learning from previous years is revisited and extended, adding new concepts, knowledge and skills, year on year as appropriate.
Jigsaw is structured using six core ‘puzzles’. In each year group, at the same point in the year, focus on a ‘puzzle’ at a time. The spiral approach means that the same concepts are explored and discussed in each year group but the knowledge and skills are developed upon and deepened as the children move through the school.
Each puzzle has a set of six puzzle pieces with the last piece being an assessment opportunity. In every lesson there are two learning objectives. Purple learning objectives identify the knowledge that will be taught to children and the green objectives identify the social and emotional skills they are developing and strengthening.
Every Jigsaw PSHE lesson follows a structure. The Jigsaw charter is referenced to ensure children understand the expectations for behaviour and conduct when discussing the PSHE content. Children begin by engaging in a short game (Connect Us) that builds relationships and provides an initial discussion point for the lesson’s intention. This is followed by the ‘Calm Me’ section which gives children an opportunity to practise mindfulness, ground themselves and develop a tool to help them regulate their emotions.
During the lesson, the ‘Tell Me or Show Me’ section introduces the children to the main concept and begins to introduce key questions and statements for children to think about. Scenarios and real-world situations are shown. Following this, children apply their initial understanding to the ‘Let Me Learn’ where they engage in further discussions, group work and presenting what they have learnt.
Throughout the puzzles, children have the opportunity to take part in debates, presentations, collaborative work and a variety of activities that develop their communication and team work skills. Key vocabulary is introduced and discussed with children in every lesson and referred back to when teaching, using prior knowledge and The RSE coverage is complimented with guidance, information and videos from external agencies that provide a concise and age-appropriate range of resources.
British Values and SMSC objectives are interwoven into the Jigsaw scheme. Children learn of these and develop the skills through the range of activities and concepts addressed in each lesson. Our RSE is delivered in a way that ensures the children feel comfortable and confident to explore the learning and ask questions whilst covering all the Jigsaw content.
At the end of the lesson, children have the opportunity to reflect on their learning objectives and the tasks they have just completed.
RHE is also embedded within the school ethos and wider Personal Development. RHE is an inter-connected subject, with clear links to RE through discussion about culture, PE through healthy diets, music through talking about how music makes us feel, and Philosophy 4 Children where we discuss 'big questions'.
We do a lot of our teaching through stories, thinking about being inclusive of all family types, cultures and how to recognise and manage different feelings and emotions. Our pupils take turns sharing and building on others' ideas and opinions. We teach the children that it is okay to have a different opinion to others, but that we should be respectful and polite even when disagreeing
In each classroom, there is a Put It Right area, with a turnaround table full of calming Down tricks, Problem Solving tips, at Turnaround box with fiddle toys and other stress-relieving ideas. We teach children to identify and name their emotions using the zones of regulation. This enables the children to recognise how they are feeling. We teach the children that it is ok to feel a range of different emotions and give them the tools they need to regulate themselves when necessary.
We revisit out calming down tricks, stop calm do problem solving and our zones of regulation each half term.
Our children are rewarded for following the School Values with praise, smiles, stickers and Golden Moments. Golden Moments are collected as a class and celebrated in our whole school assembly. In Foundation Stage, the class collect bees as a whole class reward system. In Key Stage 1, each pupil is also recognised individually with Rainbow Points.
We teach the children to be independent learners and help the children to develop these skills using our 5RS. These are displayed in each classroom and are used by all children and staff. The children will learn to:
- Be reflective
- Be resilient
- Be a risktakers
- Be resourceful
- Be reciprocal
Impact
As a result of our approach the children at Dobcroft Nursey Infant School leave with the knowledge skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives and become informed active, responsible citizens. Jigsaw PSHE is designed in such a way that each lesson gives pupils the opportunity to reflect and think deeply about the concept being taught. Children’s holistic development will be positively impacted allowing them to understand and value themselves whilst relating to and empathising with others and the world. Children’s social skills and emotional literacy will be strengthened which should aid their abilities to solve problems, communicate better and regulate their emotions more effectively. The emphasis and interwoven focuses on British Values, Protected Characteristics and spirituality will create open-minded, humble and conscientious children. They will be making meaningful, healthy and empathetic relationships which will underpin their success in both their learning and other endeavours. Children will be resilient and aspirational. The discussion-based nature of PSHE will provide children with opportunities to develop skills to explore, clarify and challenge their own, and others, attitudes, beliefs, rights and responsibilities.
Children will have a bank of tools that they can use to regulate their emotions, deal with change and conflict and approach challenging situations with a resilient and positive attitude.
The knowledge that children acquire from each unit allows them to make informed and rational decisions. Exploring concepts such as bullying, poverty, health issues and the physical changes in their body prepares them for transitions to new schools and real life situations that they or others may encounter in their life time.