Manor GreenPSHE
At Manor Green Primary Academy, we believe it is vital to create a culture which is supportive and understanding of emotional well-being, ensuring children are given the knowledge and strategies to be the best version of themselves. Our PSHE curriculum is our way of ensuring our children grow up to be educated about and celebrate diversity and also able to protect themselves against discrimination, inequality and racism.
In order to cover the PSHE curriculum we use: MyHappyMind, Scarf (for the RSE), Picture News, Thrive approach and a number of additional curriculum days and weeks.
MyHappymind
We are proud to be a part of the myHappymind Family, which is used to deliver our emotional wellbeing curriculum! As a whole school program it is grounded in science and dedicated to building positive mental wellbeing. MyHappymind helps children understand how their brains work and creates a culture that helps to build children's resilience, confidence, and self-esteem. MyHappymind also teaches the children how to self-regulate and manage their emotions in stressful times, allowing them to be their very best selves! Learn more here: https://myhappymind.org/
MyHappymind is taught to every single child, following a progressive curriculum from EYFS to year Six. The programme also supports parents and staff CPD.
MyHappymind is taught across five modules and each introduces a new set of content and habits to help children build resilience, self-esteem and confidence.
Autumn 1: Meet Your Brain: Understanding how your brain works and how to ensure we look after it so that we can manage our emotions and be at our best. Growth mindset is a key part of this too.
Autumn 2: Celebrate: Understanding your unique Character Strengths and learning to celebrate them. This is a fantastic module for building self-esteem.
Spring 1: Appreciate: Understanding why gratitude matters and how you can develop gratitude as a habit. Gratitude is key to well-being and resilience and we're all about making it a lifelong strategy!
Spring 2: Relate: Understanding why positive relationships matter and how to build them. We're focussed on the building blocks of good relationships and friendships.
Summer 1: Engage: Understanding how to set meaningful goals that matter and how to stay resilient in times of challenge. This module is all about building self-esteem and resilience too.
Discrete lessons are taught weekly, on a Monday with children actively encouraged to use their own well-being journals. Messages around the weekly theme are promoted throughout the week and celebrated at the end of the week in our star of the week assembly. Strategies, around support and regulation are taught to pupils, equipping them with the skills to support their own mental health and emotional well-being.
SCARF
We use the ‘Growing and Changing’ unit in SCARF to further support the RSE element of PSHE.
scarf growing and changing .pdf
Picture News
We strive for new ways to address both current and topical issues throughout our daily practices and our weekly Picture News serves as a driving force for such values. Picture News assemblies are held weekly (a EYFS / KS1 and a KS2 assembly) in conjunction with lessons around British Values.
Below is an example of the overview for a half term:
picture news spring 2 overview.pdf
Thrive Approach
Thrive Approach has a mission to positively impact the lives of millions of children and young people, so they feel safe, supported and ready to learn.
The Thrive approach helps us to tune into children’s' current developmental needs, identify any gaps and then plan to meet them. In adopting Thrive as a whole school, we will support all of our pupils to build a strong emotional intelligence toolkit, enabling them to make the best possible progress in their learning and THRIVE in school and beyond.
Positive relationships are at the heart of Thrive and we use these relationships, together with play and creative activities, to give children key experiences at each different stage of their development to meet their needs.
Early identification of emotional development needs builds resilience and reduces the risk of mental illness. Thrive offers us a way of assessing and supporting children’s emotional and social development and real time needs, which can then be used to provide personalised plans for classes, groups and individuals. All class teachers use a tool called Thrive-Online to screen their classes each term at ‘right time’ development. These assessments help teachers to plan a social and emotional curriculum for the whole class, incorporating relevant strategies and activities into PSHE lessons, everyday routines and general Quality First Teaching. In addition, if children are identified as having ‘interruptions’, individual assessments and plans are created to support them and plug their gaps.
Additional Curriculum Days / Weeks
In addition to the above we use the following enrichment days to further develop our PSHE curriculum:
- Black History Month
- Antibullying Week
- UK Parliament Week
- LGBTQ+ History Month
- Children’s Mental Health Week
- Internet Safety Day
- Aspirations Week
- My Money Week
In addition, we celebrate at least one religious festival from each of the main religious groups over the year