Wellbeing: Physical Education and Relationship Health Education
“Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.” 3 John 1:2
At Boddington CE Primary Academy, we believe it is important to equip our children with the skills and qualities which will give them the knowledge, confidence and resilience to lead healthy, successful lives.
PSHE
What do we want to achieve for our children?
Through our whole school RSE/PSHE curriculum, we intend to build strong foundations of health and wellbeing, provide crucial skills and encourage positive attitudes to enable children to achieve their best potential academically and socially. We want to develop confidence, resilience, self- esteem and independence in our children, to enable them to make the most of their abilities and prepare them to play an active role as citizens.
Building on their own experiences and those of their peers and through our Christian values and vision statement – Respect, Believe, Succeed, we will encourage our children to develop as individuals and members of their communities.
We will endeavor to provide them with the ability to make safe and informed choices, learning to take responsibility for their actions, respecting and valuing others background, religion, race and gender; treating others as they themselves would wish to be treated.
It is our aim, to help our children move with confidence from childhood through adolescence into adulthood. It is essential all of our children feel safe and know what to do to ensure their safety is not compromised in everyday life or online.
How will we achieve this?
At Boddington Primary Academy, we follow the SCARF (safety, caring, achievement, resilience and friendship) RSE/PSHE program of study. This is a whole school approach that provides a scheme of learning from the Early Years Foundation Stage, through to and including, Year 6. The program is centred on a values based ‘Growth Mindset’ approach and is divided into 6 termly units, tailored to each year group:
Being my best
Me and my relationships
Keeping myself safe
Valuing difference
Growing and changing
Rights and responsibilities
We embed our school and British values throughout the curriculum where possible. These values also play an important part within our collective worship focus each half term.
Children have the opportunity to visit the Life Education Bus, enhancing and motivating children’s learning of PSHE.
How will this support our children now and in the future?
This program of study supports the children in becoming happier and more positive about school life, gives them a better understanding about rules and responsibilities and enables them to better handle setbacks and disagreements.
Children have a safe place in which to discuss their feelings, opinions and develop their emotional intelligence.
Our children recognise and understand our school values and the fundamental British values.
Our children demonstrate positive behaviour, as they understand that they have a responsibility for their own actions and how these actions affect others at school, home and later on in the workplace.
SEX EDUCATION AND DRUGS
We share the responsibility of educating our pupils with their parents and guardians. Sex education is presented within a Christian and moral framework. Carefully monitored, structured TV programmes are used in Year 5 and 6 with parental knowledge and consent. Throughout the school, questions are answered frankly and naturally as they arise in the course of general class work.
The school takes a pro-active role in drug education. Awareness is taught through Personal, Social and Health Education, Science and English. The school actively co-operates with the community police, social services, the LEA and Health Authority.
In Year 6 all children take part in a programme designed to prepare them for the transition to secondary school.
Physical Education
What do we want to achieve for our children in PE?
At Boddington Primary Academy, we aim to encourage and inspire the children to enjoy, succeed and where possible, to excel in sport and all physically challenging activities, developing both personal health and fitness. We will provide opportunities to compete and succeed in sport and other physical activities, embedding our school values, such as perseverance, fairness and respect. Combined with a growing belief in themselves, we aim to develop life skills such as communicating, collaborating and competing in the hope that our PE curriculum will develop an enjoyment of physical activity, that will impact on their lives, resulting in a healthy lifestyle as they grow older.
How will we achieve this?
Children are provided with two PE sessions a week throughout the school. These sessions uses the PPP scheme (https://primarypeplanning.com/) which aims to develop a holistic approach to the learning all of the skills necessary to achieve in all sports or aspects of physical activity: basic agility, balance, co ordination, flexibility, strength, technique and control. The main themes throughout the year are Social, Personal, Health and Fitness, Cognitive, Physical and Creative. For the other weekly session, these skills are then applied to a variety of sports, in order to prepare children for active participation in games and competitions. Our aim for this is to build character and help to embed core values, such as fairness and respect, and to inspire a positive relationship with competitive sport learning respectable competition attributes. We encourage our older children to take on the responsibility of being a’ playleader’, in order to support and engage the youngest of our school community during play and lunchtimes in purposeful physical activity.
By providing access to a variety of sports both through sports clubs and PE lessons, children are prepared for taking part in intra-school and inter-school competitions. Chenderit School Sports Partnership provide these competitive opportunities and our PE curriculum and clubs are guided by these, so that the children can achieve their best at these tournaments.
How will this support the children now and in the future?
We always have a positive response from the children, a willingness and enthusiasm to represent their school at these inter school competitions: cross country, football, tag rugby, sports hall athletics, hockey, basketball, tennis and netball. There is a determination to win, perform at their best and show a true spirit of the game.
Children increase stamina and fitness levels and acquire the skills they need to achieve sporting success both individually and when working with others. They know the rules of the most common sports and are prepared for secondary school, having experienced friendly and competitive tournaments both intra and inter schools. This knowledge and experience will later support them, when choosing a sport that is right for them in the future.
Swimming and water safety
'All schools must provide swimming instruction either in KS1 or KS2. In particular, pupils should be taught to swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres. They should be able to use a range of strokes effectively and perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.' At Boddington School we use Southam Leisure Centre for our swimming lessons. Children are grouped according to their ability and not only are our pupils taught swimming skills, they are also delivered key messages and knowledge around water safety and life saving techniques. Our pupils receive swimming lessons during the whole of their key stage 2 education, Summer Term.
We have a comprehensive PE long term plan which incorerpates all aspects across the year.
What Does Wellbeing Look Like At Boddington Primary Academy?
Wellbeing Subjects at Boddington
Our Sports Day 2022
Our Sports Day was a great success. Children participated in different events, scoring points for their 'Houses'. We are so proud of how supportive our children were to each other as they took part in the events. They truly represented our vision 'Respect, Believe, Succeed'
Sports Day 2022
