Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)
PSHE is a planned, developmental programme of learning through which children and young people acquire the knoweldge, understanding skills they need to manage their lives now and in the future. As part of a whole-school appoach, PSHE develops the qualities and atributes pupils need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society.
PSHE equips children to live healthy, safe, productive, capable, responsible and balanced lives. It encourages them to be enterprising and supports them in making effective transitions, positive learning and career choices and in achieving economic wellbeing. A critical component of PSHE is providing opportunities for children and young people to reflect on and clarify their own values and attributes and explore the complex and sometimes conflicting range of values and attributes they encounter now and in the future.
PSHE contributes to personal development by helping children to build their confidence, resilience and self-esteem, and to identify and manage risk, make informed choices and understand what influences their decisions. It enables them to recognise, accept and shape their identities, to understand and accommodate difference and change, to manage emotions and to communicate constructively in a variety of settings. Developing an understanding of themselves, empathy and the ability to work with others with help children to form and maintain good relationships, develop the essential skills for future employability and better enjoy and manage their lives.
Proud to be My Happy Mind School
myHappymind is a mental health and well-being programme to support children in learning habits to support their own mental health. It does also cover all the mandatory objectives from the DfE Relationships Education Curriculum and also around 70% of the PSHE objectives.
myHappymind module descriptions:
Meet Your Brain: Understanding how your brain works and how to ensure we look after it so that we can manage our emotions and be at our best. Growth mindset is a key part of this too.
Celebrate: Understanding your unique Character Strengths and learning to celebrate them. This is a fantastic module for building self-esteem.
Appreciate: Understanding why gratitude matters and how you can develop gratitude as a habit. Gratitude is key to well-being and resilience and we're all about making it a lifelong strategy!
Relate: Understanding why positive relationships matter and how to build them. We're focussed on the building blocks of good relationships and friendships.
Engage: Understanding how to set meaningful goals that matter and how to stay resilient in times of challenge. This module is all about building self-esteem and resilience too.
Below is the link to the Parent App Introduction video: https://myhappymind.lpages.co/myhappymind-parent-app-introduction/ Please contact the school for your app password if you don't have it already.
Want to learn more? Visit: https://myhappymind.org/ or, if you are interested in delving into more detail, we recommend picking up a copy of myHappymind's founders book, ‘My Happy Mind’.
