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Greenmount Primary School

PSHE

NB Economic Education is included in the strand "Living in the Wider World"

Curriculum by Year Group

Reception

Self Regulation

Pupils will be taught to:

 

  • Show an understanding of their own feelings and those of others, and begin to regulate their behaviour accordingly;
  • Set and work towards simple goals, being able to wait for what they want and control their immediate impulses when appropriate;
  • Give focused attention to what the teacher says, responding appropriately even when engaged in activity
  • Show an ability to follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.

 

Managing Self

Pupils will be taught to:

 

  • Be confident to try new activities and show independence, resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge;
  • Explain the reasons for rules, know right from wrong and try to behave accordingly;
  • Manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs, including dressing, going to the toilet and understanding the importance of healthy food choices.

 
Building Relationships

Pupils will be taught to:

 

  • Work and play cooperatively and take turns with others;
  • Form positive attachments to adults and friendships with peers;
  • Show sensitivity to their own and to others’ needs.

Year 1

Unit
Making friends: playing
and learning together

This unit explores how to listen, share, work cooperatively, and when and how to ask for permission.

Pupils learn about friendships, including falling out and how to recognise bullying.
Mental health and
wellbeing		 This unit supports pupils to notice and name different types of feelings and
thoughts – and learn simple self-regulation strategies to manage them.
Celebrating me, you and our families This unit explores similarities and differences, as well as everyone’s individuality. Pupils look at different families, and how family members can show care and love for each other.
Safety at home This unit introduces pupils to hazards and risk in the context of the home. It
explores strategies for staying safe, including in relation to household products and medicines.
Being healthy This unit teaches about healthy lifestyles, including sleep, healthy food and drink choices, physical activity, hygiene routines (including teeth brushing) and sun safety.
Showing kindness to ourselves and others This unit revisits learning about feelings, and explores the importance of kindness.

Year 2

Unit
Mental health and
wellbeing

This unit builds on the learning in year 1 by exploring a range of feelings and their intensity, and simple strategies to help manage them.

The unit also introduces different kinds of change and loss (including
bereavement).
Keeping safe online This unit explores how online content can impact feelings, and supports pupils to make safe choices about what they watch or share online (including the importance of not sharing personal information).
Me, my body and
staying safe		 This unit explores how people change as they grow from young to old. Pupils are introduced to the names of private body parts, including genitalia, and learn how the Talk PANTS rules can help keep children safe.
Money and work This unit examines people’s different strengths and interests and what this means for the jobs they might choose.
It explores what money is, how jobs can help people earn money, and how to distinguish between needs and wants.
Keeping safe outside
the home

This unit builds on prior learning about risk through the context of road and rail
safety.

Pupils learn what an ‘emergency’ is and how to get help from an adult in
an emergency, or call 999 themselves if they need to.
Looking back and
moving on

Use this unit to consolidate learning – this could include an extended project rehearsing skills and extending knowledge from previous units. It is also an
opportunity to celebrate pupils’ achievements and prepare them for the transition to key stage 2.

Year 3


Me, my friends and
belonging

 This unit explores themes of personal identity and friendship. Pupils learn ways to make others feel welcome and included.
Mental health and
wellbeing

 

 Building on the learning in year 2, this unit develops pupils’ bank of self-regulation strategies and provides the opportunity to apply them in new contexts, such as managing worries.

Building healthy habits

 This unit develops pupils’ understanding of healthy habits, including healthier food and drink choices, maintaining dental health and regular physical activity.

Making choices online

 This unit explores how to protect information online and make choices about online content, including understanding age ratings.

Keeping safe out and about

 This unit supports pupils to identify risk and keep safe in the sun, as well as around railways and water.

Families and growing
together

 This unit supports pupils’ understanding of diverse family structures, and how
families can change.

Year 4


Mental health and
wellbeing

 Building on the learning in year 3, this unit extends pupils’ understanding of  self-regulation strategies and explores factors that can support wellbeing.

Exploring ways to
manage risk

 This unit explores assessing and managing risk in different contexts, and the role that peer influence can play in personal safety.

Forming respectful
relationships

 This unit supports pupils to respond appropriately to conflicts and bullying, and to understand the importance of kindness.

Money matters and
news literacy

 This unit explores how attitudes and influences can impact decisions about money.
It encourages pupils to critically engage with news stories and recognise how they might affect emotions.

Looking out for each other

 This unit explores the basics of first aid, and revisits how to make an efficient call to the emergency services.

Embedding healthy
habits and learning
first aid

 

This unit supports pupils to recognise the benefits of healthy habits such as sun
safety, regular exercise and goal setting.

It also covers first aid.

Year 5

Friendships,
stereotypes and
bullying

This unit explores respectful relationships and what to do about bullying.

Pupils learn how to recognise and challenge stereotypes and prejudiced or extreme views.

Mental health and
wellbeing

 This unit revisits and builds on prior learning about mental health, exploring how different self-regulation strategies can help shift habitual thoughts
and emotions, and support wellbeing.

Positively engaging
with our world

 

 This unit examines healthy ways of engaging with news stories and the impact that climate change can have on emotions and wellbeing.

Respecting boundaries

 This unit explores personal boundaries, different types of touch, and how to respectfully ask, give or not give permission.

Safe connections

This unit supports pupils to stay safe and manage risks if socialising online.

It also touches on cybercrime.

 

 Me, my body and
growing up

 

Taught discretely outside of PSHE lessons - separately to boys and girls 

This unit focuses on the physical and emotional changes experienced during
puberty, and builds pupils’ confidence in using the Talk PANTS rule to keep safe.

This unit builds pupils’ understanding of how to manage the changes that
occur during puberty, including increased independence and new sleep patterns.

Year 6

Mental health and
wellbeing

 This unit revisits and builds on prior learning about mental health, helping pupils to explore strategies that support wellbeing – including in the context of the transition to secondary school.

Managing money and
online spending

 This unit explores economic wellbeing and online financial harms (incorporating elements of statutory RSHE) – including targeted advertising and other influences on online spending.

Drug education:
assessing risk and
managing influences

 This unit covers legal and illegal drugs, and the risks and effects of legal and illegal drug use.

Developing our AI
literacy

 This unit introduces different types of AI, including generative AI, and explores the opportunities, challenges and risks associated with its use.

Looking to the future

 This unit explores career related learning (including different career pathways) and supports pupils to prepare for the transition to secondary
school.
PSHE Association Programme of Study

We follow the PSHE Association's Programme of Study to ensure that there is strong progression across the school and so that our teaching complies with the most recent statutory framework for RSE.

We are not able to publish the Programme of Study online, but a copy can be obtained from the school on request.  

My Happy Mind

 

Since 2023, we have been supplementing our PSHE work on mental health and wellbeing with the "My Happy Mind" programme across school.

My Happy Mind

myHappymind is science-backed, NHS commissioned programme for schools, grounded in the latest science and research about what it takes to create positive wellbeing.

It’s taught to every single child and there’s a curriculum for every year group from Early Years to Year 6. It builds on the work children cover on mental health within the PSHE curriculum.

myHappymind covers 5 modules over each year. Each one introduces a new set of content and habits to help children build resilience, self-esteem and confidence:

 

Each module begins with a whole school assembly introducing the module's theme. This is then followed by a series of weekly lessons in class to help the children embed their learning.

Please ask in school for further information about the progression of knowledge, skills and understanding for each group.

We are proud to announce that we are a myHappymind Silver Accredited school!

 

This means that as a school we consider the mental health and wellbeing of our children as one of our top priorities. We have created a whole school culture that helps build our children's resilience, confidence and self esteem as well as teaching them how to self regulate in those stressful times.

This Accreditation badge has been awarded thanks to all the effort our staff, children, governors and parents have put in to bring the lessons of myHappymind to life all around our school! 

 

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