At Smithdown Primary School, through our ethos of ‘Together We Grow’, we aim to develop the whole child to prepare them for the future. Through the teaching of PSHE and RHE we hope to help children to grow up to be healthy, happy safe and able to manage the challenges and opportunities of modern Britain.
We believe in modelling key skills of sharing, turn taking and caring about and respecting others. The children learn the skills for keeping themselves healthy and safe and for behaving well. They have opportunities to show they can take some responsibility for themselves and their environment. The children begin to learn about their own and other people’s feelings and become aware of the views, needs and rights of other children and older people.. As members of a class and school community, they learn social skills such as how to share, take turns, play, help others, resolve simple arguments and behave in a supportive way. They begin to take an active part in the life of their school and its neighbourhood
We also teach Health Relationships Education (HRE) in an age appropriate way that prepares children for the future. As the children move into key stage two, they learn how to make more confident and informed choices about their health and environment. They also learn about themselves as growing and changing individuals with their own experiences and ideas, and as members of their communities. This is achieved both indoors and in the outdoor environment through Forest School activities and placing high value on the role of parents in their children’s learning.
Pleas click on the links below to find out more about our PHSE curriculum.
Detailed information for parents about each unit of work, please click each link to find out more:
1. Knowledge Organiser Being Me in my World
2. Knowledge Organiser Celebrating Differences
3. Knowledge Organiser Dreams and Goals
4. Knowledge Organiser Heathy Me
5. Knowledge Organiser Relationships
6. Knowledge Organiser Changing Me
Please click here to read the agreed policy along with details of the curriculum content.
Please click here to read about our teaching approach to LBGTQ
Please click her to read about our approach to gender identity
Year 3 discussed their dreams and goals in our PHSE lesson this week. We talked about the importance of recognising the steps that are needed to achieve our goals. We recognised that no matter what dream we have, we need to work hard and overcome any challenge that pops up along the way. We linked our dreams to our school motto ‘together we grow’ and used a flower template to show how our dreams will grow. 🌸👩🏫👩⚕️🧑⚕️💃👨🎓👲
We have looked through all our clues for our upcoming book… Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. We will be discussing new vocabulary such as racism, segregation, civil rights, controversy and many more! 
An amazing Mario Kart tournament to celebrate the holidays!
As part of our ‘Being A Global Citizen’ unit, we learnt about ‘Fair Trade’ and what this means for farmers and crop producers around the world.Here are some of our completed posters.
We had the best time posting our letters this morning, Eddie the elf came with us too! I wonder where our letters will end up? 📫Thank you to those parents who were able to join us at this busy time.
Today we looked at different pictures of artefacts in museums around the world and how they were used during the transatlantic slave trade. We discussed the life of an enslaved person and the hardships they faced.
As part of our unit on ‘Being a Global Citizen,’ we are learning about ‘Fair Trade’ and what it means to cocoa farmers around the world.
For our PSHE lesson we are celebrating differences. In previous weeks we have spoken about racism, bullying and rumours and now we are researching a range of countries and what their culture looks like.
What a lovely morning with parents we had! We all had a toasted marshmallow, cup of hot chocolate and sang some songs.
Here are some of the amazing things the year 3 children came up with when we were discussing how we can help people who are being bullied. Some of the answers were incredible. Everyone enjoyed drawing around their hands and colouring their work. 😊
Yesterday we had a great time at the International Slavery Museum. We had a workshop in the ‘legacies of the transatlantic slave trade’ and then had time to explore the museum with our task sheets. 
What a fabulous way to begin Children in Need day – a Year 5 campfire with hot chocolate and smores : )
We took part in a workshop this morning discussing values which are important in life such as respect, patience, tolerance and understanding.
In PSHE we discussed how we should not make assumptions about people by how they look. We must not be judgemental.
We began discussing wants and needs which then led us into finding out about children’s rights.We then identified key words and illustrated them.
The next lesson in our PSHE led to us to discussing problems which exist in the world today and how we could help to heal the world – we had some really good suggestions which linked to the work we’ve been doing in English and Geography too.
In PSHE, we talked about what makes our school a dream school. The children gave answers such as,
“Our school has adults that listen.”
“We learn in our school.”
From this, we discussed that a nightmare school wouldn’t have the lovely things that Smithdown has. We created posters for our nightmare school. Some amazing imagination was used. 😊
We are having a lovely time with friends we know and also making new friends.
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Today we talked about what makes a good friend. We wrote about the different things we can do.
We took a trip to the Family and Civil Court to take part in a mock trial and meet some real life judges!
Our Wellbeing Champions have been working hard to learn strategies to support other children in class and on the playground. They’re doing a fabulous job
We created our own word art pieces after discussing the rights of the child in PSHE. We chose words which we thought were very important. 
