PSHE
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle
Our Intent
What we teach in the classroom will help our children foster lifelong aspirations, goals and values.
With this in mind, we believe that PSHE education isn’t just another school subject. It’s a chance to give every child and young person an equal opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge they need to thrive now and in the future.
This includes helping them to deal with critical issues they face every day such as friendships, emotional wellbeing and change. And giving them a solid foundation for whatever challenging opportunities lie ahead, so they can face a world full of uncertainty with hope.
PSHE education helps children prepare for all the opportunities, challenges, life decisions and responsibilities they'll face.
This in turn achieves a 'virtuous circle', whereby children with better health and wellbeing can achieve better academically, and enjoy greater success.
We have designed our PSHE curriculum so that our learners:
- Develop themselves intellectually, morally, socially and spiritually
- Acquire the skills, knowledge and attributes they need to keep themselves physically and emotionally healthy and safe
- Flourish regardless of background, ability or additional needs, to become the very best version of themselves they can possibly be
- Possess a strong understanding of the diverse world around them and are supported in playing a positive role in contributing to an ever-changing society
- Acquire the curiosity and confidence to question, challenge and reflect
Cultural Capital
At Norbreck, we recognise that for children to aspire to and be successful academically and in the wider areas of their lives, they need to be given rich and exciting opportunities to develop their cultural capital.
We believe that there are six key areas which help contribute to a child’s cultural capital:
- Personal Development
- Social Development, including political and current affairs awareness
- Physical Development
- Spiritual Development
- Moral Development
- Cultural development
Personal Development
- Citizenship, Personal, Social and Health Education provision.
- The school’s wider pastoral framework.
- Growth mindset support & resilience development strategies.
- Transition support.
- Work to develop confidence, e.g. role play, supporting peers, leadership roles.
- Activities focused on building self-esteem.
- Mental Health & well-being provision.
Social Development
- Personal, Social and Health Education provision;
- Volunteering and charitable work – e.g. raising funds for Children in need, Comic Relief
- Pupil Voice –School Council, Eco-Council, Anti-Bullying Ambassadors, the Junior Leadership Team, Buddys & PALs
- Learning Mentor and Family Support Worker support;
- Pastoral support from all staff.
Physical Development
- The Physical Education curriculum.
- Healthy Eating policies and catering provision.
- Anti-bullying and safeguarding policies and strategies, including a child-friendly policy.
- The Health Education dimension of the PSHE programme and Preparation for Adulthood including strands on drugs, smoking and alcohol.
- The extracurricular clubs related to sports and well-being.
- The celebration of sporting achievements.
- Year 6 Residentials and Year Group Trips and Visits.
- Design and Technology units related to food preparation and nutrition.
Spirital Development
- The Religious Education Curriculum.
- Our collective acts of reflection.
- Support for the expression of individual faiths.
- Inter-faith and faith-specific activities and speakers.
- World Religion Day activities.
- Visits to religious buildings and centres.
Moral Development
- The Religious Education Curriculum.
- The school’s Behaviour policy.
- Contributions to local, national and international charitable projects.
Cultural Development
- Citizenship education through PSHE.
- Arts education including Music and Drama.
- All children have the opportunity to watch a theatre production in school.
- Promotion of racial equality and community cohesion through the school’s ethos, informing all policy and practice.
- Each curriculum area makes its own contribution to children’s cultural capital development and supports SMSC across the school.
How we Implement PSHE at Norbreck
Pupils are taught regularly timetabled PSHE / RSE lessons by a member of Norbreck staff with whom the pupils are familiar.
Staff follow our tailor-made whole school scheme to plan their lessons. This is based on the PSHE Association Guidelines whilst ensuring the Statutory RSE curriculum is taught. The Curriculum is split into 6 themes and is taught as a spiral curriculum so topics are re-visited in more depth to match the maturity of the pupils.
Term 1: Me and my relationships
Term 4: Rights and responsibilities
Term 2: Valuing difference
Term 5: Being my best
Term 3: Keeping myself safe
Term 6: Growing and changing
Lessons are adapted to meet the needs of each individual class / pupils and to deal with issues as they arise.
Lessons are delivered in a way that ensures pupils feel safe and encourages participation by using a variety of teaching approaches with opportunities to develop critical thinking and relationship skills.
Data from the ‘SHEU Survey’ and pupil voice is used to ensure lessons meet the needs of our pupils.
Assemblies, themed days, visits and visitors are used to support the teaching and are not used in place of it.
We work in partnership with parents informing them about what their children are learning and when required, providing guidance towards resources that can be used at home.
Long Term Plan
Here is our school's Long Term Plan topic coverage for PSHE.
Impact - What difference is the curriculum making to our pupils?
We are proud of the PSHE / RSE work that we deliver at Norbreck. The evidence is seen through the well-rounded, confident, tolerant, resilient and independent pupils that leave us at the end of Year 6.
• The pupils’ attitude, behaviour and demeanour around school, within lessons, at playtimes’ and out in the community demonstrates the respect, tolerance and high aspirations that our pupils have for themselves and each other.
• Pupils leave us ready for their next step into secondary school and are armed with skills, knowledge and understanding that they can take forward into adulthood.
• Our pupils leave us prepared for life in an ever-changing modern Britain. They have the tools they need to succeed, keep themselves safe and thrive.
We measure impact by the triangulation of lesson observations, work scrutiny and pupil voice. Impact can also be seen as part of the SHEU survey data. The outcome of this all goes together to form the coming years' action plans, lesson plans and evaluation of impact.
Year 5 Careers & Aspirations Term 4 2025
New and in addition to our PSHE curriculum this year, is the implementation and delivery of Careers and Aspirations to our Year 5 children. We wanted to make a difference in the aspirations and awareness of our children's academic journey and, ultimately, their career goals. As a result, all of this term's PSHE lessons will be delivered to achieve this. We have lots of exciting visitors who will be speaking to the children about their jobs and career journey as well as visits from local colleges and further education. We can't wait! Watch this space!
Blackpool and the Fylde College visit.
Blackpool and the Fylde College visit.
We also had the pleasure of welcoming a fire officer, a bio-chemist, the marketing director for Matalan, a police detective and a occupational therapist!
RNLI Visits Norbreck Term 4 2025
This term kick-started with a fabulous and informative visit from Brenda Warburton from the RNLI. Brenda spoke to the children about the history of the RNLI, its purpose, local history and ways to stay safe. What an informative and inspiring visit...perhaps inspiring the next generation of RNLI volunteers.
Internet Safety Day Term 3 2025
Safer Internet Day took place on the 11 th of February 2025, with celebrations and learning based around the theme 'Too good to be true?' Children from Reception to Year 6 learnt what a 'scam' is, how to identify a scam and what to do should they see one. The older children also learnt about how to prevent 'phishing'. Look at our Facebook Page for some more insights as to what we got up to.
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Almost half of 8 to 17-year-olds have been scammed online
For Safer Internet Day 2025, SaferInternet, conducted some brand-new research into young people’s experiences of scams online. This research found that:
https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2025 |
Do have a look at our Online Safety Page for some top tips to help your child stay safe online.
Children's Mental Health Week Term 3 2025
At Norbreck, we place a strong emphasis on children's mental health. One of the ways we do this is by participating in Children's Mental Health week each February. This year's theme was 'Know Yourself, Grow Yourself' which helped children to discover how getting to know who they are can help them build resilience, grow and develop. Throughout the week, children from Reception through to Year 6, participated in activities and lessons to embrace this year's theme.
Year 4 'Fit2Go' Sessions Term 2 2024
Year 4 took part in an exciting and incredibly informative six- week programme called 'Fit2Go' led by Blackpool Football Community Trust, which aimed to encourage children to live a healthy lifestyle, take part in regular physical activity and to join in with local sports clubs and community programmes which will ultimately improve their overall health and wellbeing.
Each week, children took part in healthy lifestyle sessions and carried out extra physical activity organised around the school day. It was a great success and the children really showcased their new knowledge at the Fit2Go quiz where they competed against other schools in the area.
Year 6 'Unstoppable' sessions with Blackpool Football Community Trust Term 1 2024
Blackpool FC Community Trust came to work with our Year 6 children to deliver a PSHE programme called 'Unstoppable' during each week in Term 1.
Unstoppable has been developed using bestselling author Dan Freedman’s book, which focusses on supporting young people with difficult life topics, including mental health, knife crime, friendships, family dynamics and the transition to high school.
Children read up to certain points each week and were led through classroom sessions discussing some of the topics.
The children even got to keep a copy of the book!
The first column.
The second column.
The third column.
Fire Officer Visits Year 2 Term 1 2024
Year 2 welcomed Fire Officer Wade this term. The session focused on increasing children's knowledge about fire risks and awareness of what to do in the event of a fire.
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Year 5 SRE Objectives
- Identify some products that they may need during puberty and why;
- Know what menstruation is and why it happens;
- Know the correct words for the external sexual organs;
- Discuss some of the myths associated with puberty.
Year 6 SRE Objectives
- Define the word 'puberty' giving examples of some of the physical and emotional changes associated with it;
- Suggest strategies that would help someone who felt challenged by the changes in puberty;
- Identify the changes that happen through puberty to allow sexual reproduction to occur;
- Know a variety of ways in which the sperm can fertilise the egg to create a baby;
- Know the legal age of consent and what it means.