At St Joseph’s, the intent of our PSHE curriculum is to promote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of our children and to prepare them at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life. Here, at St Joseph’s we value PSHE as one way to support children’s development as human beings, to enable them to understand and respect who they are, to empower them with a voice and to equip them for life and learning.

We include the statutory Relationships and Health Education within our whole-school PSHE Programme.

We aim to provide pupils with

• The knowledge, understanding, attitudes, values and skills they need in order to reach their potential as individuals and within the community.
• Pupils are encouraged to take part in a wide range of activities and experiences across and beyond the curriculum, contributing fully to the life of their school and communities. In doing so they learn to recognise their own worth, work well with others and become increasingly responsible for their own learning.
• They reflect on their experiences and understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling many of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up.
• They learn to understand and respect our common humanity; diversity and differences so that they can go on to form the effective, fulfilling relationships that are an essential part of life and learning.

In our school we choose to deliver Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education using Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE.