Intent

At Mission Grove School we understand that PSHE education is a crucial part of every child's education giving pupils the knowledge, skills, and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy and safe and to prepare them for life and work in modern Britain. 

With strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health, we use the Jigsaw PSHE Curriculum to ensure that at Mission Grove we deliver engaging and relevant PSHE within a whole-school approach. We plan to enable children 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. With an ever-changing society, we are able to provide our children with a strong understanding of the diverse world around them and support them in playing a positive role in contributing to their school and the wider community both.

At Mission Grove, we recognise the importance of inclusion and the Jigsaw PSHE curriculum ensures equal access to all pupils regardless of their ability, aptitude, race, religion or gender. This helps children understand and value how they fit into and contribute to the world. 

Our PSHE lessons also include mindfulness allowing children to advance their emotional awareness, concentration, focus and self-regulation.

Flowing through the heart of our PSHE teaching, is a commitment to enhancing and promoting our school motto Respect yourself; respect others. 

Implementation

At Mission Grove we use the Jigsaw Curriculum as a whole-school approach to teaching PSHE and RSHE. The Jigsaw curriculum provides a mindful approach to PSHE, bringing together Personal, Social, Health Education, emotional literacy, social skills and spiritual development in a comprehensive scheme of learning. Each year group works on a whole-school topic each half-term. 

Half Termly Topics

Autumn 1: Being Me in My World

Autumn 2: Celebrating Difference

Spring 1: Dreams and Goals

Spring 2: Healthy Me

Summer 1: Relationships

Summer 2: Changing Me 

Through timetabled weekly sessions, children learn about themselves and each others, recognising and understanding feelings and managing relationships.

Jigsaw is a progressive and 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.

The progression map below draws out the spiral knowledge and skills progression within all six Puzzles (units of work) including the key vocabulary used in each year group

Impact

The impact of our PSHE curriculum is that by the time children leave Mission Grove the majority of the children:

• are becoming confident, caring, and articulate members of their community. 
• have an understanding of our diverse and complex world and understand the importance of being courteous towards others and respecting diversity and difference.
• are developing their resilience and self-regulation, and have a keen understanding of their own health and wellbeing, including supporting their mental and emotional development.  
• have developed risk management and balanced decision-making skills, within the context of a changing and challenging world.
• Feel valued, respected and have high aspirations, which will see them achieve their highest potential.

Class teachers assess the children's work and progress in PSHE by listening to responses and discussions during lessons and throughout the school day. Pupils are given the opportunity to offer advice and opinions to their peers during these discussions. Teachers use insights to track each child progress in the different PSHE skills.