PSHE and Relationships Education
At Marshfield Primary, we use PolEd to support and enhance the educational experience of our pupils. This platform helps us create a safe and engaging learning environment, where each child’s well-being and development are prioritised.
How We Use PolEd:
- Tailored Learning: PolEd helps us adapt teaching to meet the unique needs of every pupil, ensuring that learning is accessible and effective for all.
- Safeguarding: The platform plays a key role in safeguarding by providing a secure way to raise and address concerns, keeping our school community safe. It includes providing contextualised and live data to enable school to accurately measure the current risks in the local area. This allows staff to ensure that appropriate adaptations are made to keep children informed about how to stay safe.
- Promoting Positive Values: PolEd supports the development of key life skills, such as respect, responsibility, and teamwork, integral to our educational approach.
- Engaging Families: It strengthens communication with parents, ensuring they are informed and involved in their child’s safety.
By using PolEd, Marshfield Primary is committed to fostering a positive, inclusive, and safe educational experience for all our students.
Relationships Education Documents
At Marshfield, Relationships education is taught via our Connect PSHE curriculum, with some lessons adapted to meet our Relationships education policy (see documentation below).
Connect is a Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) wellbeing curriculum for primary school children.
The weekly programme teaches children key skills to promote emotional wellbeing and resilience.
With 36 Lesson plans for each year group from Reception to Year 6, plus an Introductory Term, the Connect curriculum is forever evolving to suit the ever-changing needs of our children.
What makes Connect really unique is that the termly themes are derived from the psychological wellbeing literature, and specifically the work of Dr Geetanjali Basarkod. Dr Basarkod’s PhD thesis expanded on the work of the New Economics Foundation by empirically showing that psychologically healthy people tend to engage in 6 behaviours, and our curriculum is built around them. They are…
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Connecting with others – this involves having healthy social relationships.
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Challenging oneself – this involves continually trying to improve via learning.
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Giving to others – this involves spending time and resources helping our fellow human beings.
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Exercising – this involves engaging in physical activity.
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Embracing the moment – this involves mindfully interacting with our thoughts and feelings.
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Self-care – this involves looking after oneself, such as through healthy eating and improved sleep quality.
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