Curriculum intent, implementation, and impact
Lantern Academy’s Personal, Social, Health and Education (PSHE) curriculum has been carefully written to address how to be safe and successful citizens in the 21st century, incorporating an understanding of the complexities within the community in which the children live and covering things that worry our children. Learning takes place in a variety of ways including through drama and role play, active discussion, debate and collaboration and teaches children how to stay safe, what to do if something worries them, how to remain healthy and how to build and maintain successful, healthy relationships. We provide pupils with the tools to act respectfully, take responsibility for their own behaviour and choices, be effective communicators able to articulate their views and opinions in different ways and show empathy towards others.
Our academy values are the golden thread through our PSHE curriculum, and we provide examples of how they are transferred into the ‘real world’. The topics and themes support the social, moral, spiritual and cultural development and proactively teach essential safeguarding issues ensuring the children have the required knowledge or when and how to ask for help.
We use the Jigsaw Scheme of work to support our teaching of PSHE. Each half term focuses on a different theme and is the same across the school. This ensures that learning is built upon, and skills and knowledge developed in an age-appropriate way. These themes are Being Me in My World, Celebrating Differences, Dreams and Goals, Healthy Me, Changing Me and Relationships.
Weekly lessons are timetabled in, but should an event or something happen which requires an immediate address, additional sessions are factored in. Elements of PSHE lessons are also incorporated to our whole-school and class assemblies. This approach prepares children to be responsible, safe citizens as well as alleviate fears and worries regarding events either locally or in the wider world.
Activities within lesson and retrieval opportunities assess all children’s understanding of the content taught. Children are also given opportunities to reflect on their own understanding and that of their peers. Teachers are provided with the learning objectives, success criteria and specific knowledge to be taught within a lesson, this includes key questions and vocabulary. Opportunities to put their learning into practice in real-life situations are provided, for example our younger children practice crossing the road using the green cross code, our older children take part in community litter picks demonstrating the respect and care they have for the area in which they live and are educated and our student bodies, such as the school council, safeguarding squad, eco squad and attendance ambassadors work with our school community to help make improvements and keep everyone safe.
Additionally, we want Lantern children to leave us recognising how to be healthy both in body and mind, understand the British Values and demonstrate how to apply these in their everyday lives both inside and outside of the academy, recognise their emotions and employ strategies in managing these, develop trusting, positive and healthy relationships with their peers and academy staff, recognise who they can talk to in times of need, understand RSE at an age-appropriate level and develop their own confidence and self-esteem.
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