PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education)and RSE (Relationships and Sex Education)
At Meridian, we use Jigsaw PSHE resources as a basis for our planning for PSHE and RSE lessons from Nursery to Year 6.
We chose Jigsaw because the scheme holds children at its heart and the overarching aim it to help children understand and value how they fit into and contribute to the world. Jigsaw's philosophy starts by building positive self-image, a sense of identity and a healthy relationship with themselves, and from that starting point helps children grow healthy relationships with others.
Relationships Education will put in place the building blocks needed for positive and safe relationships, including with family, friends and online.
Health Education aims to give the children the information they need to make good decisions about their own health and wellbeing, to recognise issues in themselves and others, and to seek support as early as possible when issues arise.
PSHE is taught through Jigsaw's six half termly themes with each year group studying the same unit at the same time at their own level:
Autumn 1: Being Me in My World
Autumn 2: Differences (including anti-bullying)
Spring 1: Dreams and Goals
Spring 2: Healthy Me
Summer 1: Relationships
Summer 2: Changing Me (including Sex Education)
All children have a weekly PSHE lesson, which include discussions, games, learning new knowledge and skills, and reflection. As part of each lesson, children have the opportunity to develop mindfulness skills such as breathing and focusing. The children's learning is recorded and shared in class books that celebrate new learning and progress of the children.
Relationships and sex education
The work on puberty and human reproduction is taught through the Changing Me Puzzle (delivered in the last term of the academic year). However, Jigsaw believes children need to understand this before they leave primary school so that: a) they see that puberty needs to happen to enable them to have babies in adulthood b) this knowledge helps to safeguard them. This work is done in the context of managing change and is age-appropriate.
Click on the link to find out more about our relationships and sex education lessons for term 6.
| "We learnt about smoking and what it does to you and I won't do it." Year 4 | "You must always tell a grown up if someone is being unkind to you." Year 2 | "The lessons on peer pressure have really helped me." Year 5 |
| How PSHE is organised |
| PSHE Long term curriculum overview |
| PSHE progression document |
For more information, including how we meet DfE expectations, please see our PSHE and RSE policy
