“Help us to protect and educate our younger generation.’ – Greta Thunberg

We aim to give our pupils the knowledge, skills and attitudes that they need to effectively navigate the complexities of life in the 21st Century. The curriculum covers key areas which will support children to make informed choices now and in the future around their health, safety, wellbeing, relationships, and financial matters and will support them in becoming confident individuals and active members of society.

The schemes of work we use covers the Relationships and Health Education. statutory guidance (as set out by the Department for Education), including the non-statutory sex education.

Oak Academy PSHE

Our scheme (Oak Academy) also covers wider PSHE learning, in line with the requirement of the National Curriculum making provision for personal social health and economic education. Children’s learning significantly contributes to their personal development as set out in the OFSTED inspection framework and promotes the four fundamental British values which reflect life modern Britain; democracy, rule of law, respect and tolerance, and individual liberty.

KidSafe EYFS – Year 4

KidSafe UK provides our school from EYFS, Year 1 to Year 4 with a child-friendly, preventative children’s mental health and safeguarding programme that can be easily integrated with your current PSHE / RSE provision (excluding sex education).

Our aim is to educate children about mental health and emotional wellbeing, and empowering them to speak out to a trusted adult about anything that makes them feel sad, scared or worried. This can help break the cycles of childhood trauma. We do this through child-centred, age-appropriate education that it based on over 20 years of experience and feedback from hundreds of KidSafe UK registered schools.

Pol-Ed Year 5 and Year 6

Pol-Ed supports schools in delivering expertly planned lessons designed to develop a deep awareness of risks, citizenship, and the law. The Pol-Ed team have focussed the coverage of the materials to address priority areas of policing, such as sexual violence and harassment; child on child abuse; and the perception that young people have of the police.

Our resources are built around developing a range of values, skills and attributes which will allow our pupils to apply the knowledge they learn to situations making well-balanced and positive decisions. So why Pol-Ed?

Pol- Ed offers schools a range of lessons, assemblies and assessment resources that are mapped out against the PSHE Association’s Programs of Study.
The resources are completely FREE for all schools to register and within a purchasing Police Force area.
Our lessons have been created by subject matter experts and are quality assured by Police Officers in specialist departments to ensure all legalities are correct.

Timesaving for teachers – all lessons and supporting resources are planned and ready to use and deliver and requires no additional workload for teachers.
As well as meeting statutory requirements of the RSHE (Relationship, Sex, Health Education), Pol-Ed covers subjects that may otherwise not be covered in other PSHE schemes but are vital children understand.
Pol-Ed provides eight Passports, which are based around key values and form a foundation for assessment of pupil’s development which can be used throughout their time in education.

Protected Characteristics

We work to ensure that our children understand that:

There are no outsiders at Hensingham Primary School
Everyone is different
We celebrate our differences
We are all equal in our differences

The Equality Act became law in 2010. It covers everyone in Britain and protects people from discrimination, harassment and victimisation. Everyone in Britain is protected. This is because the Equality Act protects people against discrimination because of the protected characteristics that we all have.

Under the Equality Act, there are nine Protected Characteristics:

Age
Disability
Gender reassignment
Race
Religion or belief
Marriage or civil partnership
Sex
Sexual orientation
Pregnancy and maternity

The 9 Protected Characteristics are actively promoted in school through:

Our school core RESPECT Values
Our school behaviour policy
Conscious role modelling by all adults in the school community
Active engagement and communication with parents and carers
Collective Worship and class assemblies
Promotion of British Values across the school community
Discussion within curriculum subjects, taking a cross-curricular approach
Promoting articulation by building appropriate language and a coherent vocabulary across all subject areas
Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) sessions
Religious Education (RE) lessons, RSE lessons and Protected Characteristic talks
Sporting competitions, festivals and opportunities
Art and Cultural activities
Pupil Voice e.g. School Councillors, Diversity Champions, Eco Warriors and Sports Leaders
Educational visits
Real-life learning outside the classroom
Guest speakers and visitors from the wider community
Developing stronger links with the local, national and international communities
Extra-curricular activities, after-school clubs, charity work and work within the local community

We firmly believe that embedding Protected Characteristics into the whole school ethos at Hensingham promotes:

Self-esteem, self-knowledge and self-confidence of everyone in our school community
Respect for democracy and support for participation in the democratic process will be raised
Acceptance of responsibility for their own behaviour
Respect for their own and other cultures
Understanding of how people can contribute positively to school and home life and to the lives of those living and working in the local community and beyond
An understanding of Equality, Human Rights and Protected Characteristics
An understanding of how citizens can influence decision-making through the democratic process
An appreciation that living under the rule of law protects individual citizens and is essential for their wellbeing and safety of all
An understanding that the freedom to choose and hold other faiths and beliefs is protected in law
An acceptance that other people having different faiths or beliefs should be accepted and tolerated, and should not be the cause of prejudicial or discriminatory behaviour
An understanding of the importance of identifying and combating discrimination