PSHE stands for Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education. It is a planned programme of learning through which children acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to manage their lives, now and in the future. 

Our PSHE curriculum aims 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 Education using Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE.

This policy supports our school mission statement of: “To establish a life-long love of learning within a caring environment, in which we encourage all children to fulfil their potential through enjoyable and enriching experiences”.

It also supports our whole school ethos of developing the Parklands Person - kind, respectful, polite, safe, important and positive. 

PSHE at Parklands is taught through a programme called 1decision. The programme offers high-quality resources that are engaging and relevant to the children's experiences and interests.  The resources are regularly updated to align with statutory changes and ensure compliance with the PSHE Association's Programme of Study and the latest updates to the RSHE curriculum. 1decision offers a life skills toolkit that supports safeguarding requirements, SMSC development, mental wellbeing and mindfulness. 

Units to be taught each year across Key Stage One are:

1. Keeping Safe
2. Being Healthy
3. Relationships/Growing and Changing
4. Healthy Me
5. Being Responsible
6. Feelings and Emotions
7. Computer/Online Safety
8. Our World/The Working World
9. A World Without Judgement
10. Fire Safety/First Aid