Personal, Social & Health Education

PSHE at Grange C of E School

PSHE is an integral part of our whole-school curriculum. Interwoven with our Christian values, it reflects our commitment to providing a safe and nurturing environment where every child can flourish. Our PSHE provision encompasses a broad spectrum of learning, including drugs education, relationships and sex education (RSE), healthy living, and personal wellbeing.

To support this, children are given opportunities to broaden their horizons and challenge themselves through experiences such as our whole-school trip to Castle Head, extracurricular clubs, the Fiver Challenge, festivals and competitions, and Bikeability, to name just a few.

Pupil voice lies at the heart of our school. The curriculum and opportunities we provide empower pupils to grow into independent, active, and responsible members of our community, playing a meaningful role in decision-making throughout their time at Grange C of E Primary School.

Our Curriculum

At Grange Church of England School, we follow the SCARF scheme to deliver our PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) education. We chose SCARF because it provides children with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to thrive throughout their time at school and beyond.

SCARF offers a whole-school approach that brings together key areas of personal development, including:

PSHE education – helping children to develop essential life skills such as resilience, empathy, and emotional literacy.
SMSC development – opportunities for spiritual, moral, social, and cultural growth are carefully mapped throughout the curriculum and are closely linked to our Christian Values.
Safeguarding – children learn how to keep themselves safe, both in the real world and online.

Together, these strands—alongside our daily acts of collective worship—create a cohesive and nurturing learning experience. They help our children to know and value who they are, understand how to keep themselves safe, and build positive relationships with others and the wider world.

Find out how the SCARF values of Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship can help your child to be their best - both at school and at home.

https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/family-scarf

RSE

At Grange C of E Primary School, we understand that pupils must be provided with an education that prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities, and experiences of adult life. A key part of this relates to relationships and health education, which must be delivered to every primary-aged pupil. Primary schools also have the option to decide whether pupils are taught sex education.

Relationships education focusses on giving pupils the knowledge they need to make informed decisions about their wellbeing, health and relationships, and to build their self-efficacy. Health education focusses on equipping pupils with the knowledge they need to make good decisions about their own health and wellbeing.

We understand our responsibility to deliver a high-quality, age-appropriate and evidence-based relationships, sex and health curriculum for all our pupils. This policy sets out the framework for our relationships, sex and health curriculum, providing clarity on how it is informed, organised and delivered.

Finance

Our financial education curriculum is primarily based on materials from the SCARF scheme, complemented by MoneySense — a financial education resource for 5–18-year-olds developed in collaboration with educational experts and aligned with the Personal Finance Education Group (PFEG) financial education planning frameworks.

The programme is designed to equip young people with the knowledge, skills, and behaviours they need to manage money effectively and take control of their futures. MoneySense is developed alongside educational specialists, accredited by the PFEG (part of Young Enterprise), and linked to the national curriculum.

KidSafe

Our school is proud to be a Kidsafe registered school. The primary aim of the Kidsafe programme is to equip children with simple yet effective skills to help them keep themselves safe from harm, while preserving their natural innocence.

The programme is delivered in the classroom with active involvement from class teachers. All course materials are age-appropriate, with key messages communicated through engaging media such as song, rhyme, movement, puppetry, group discussions, and worksheets.

Before the sessions begin, all parents are invited to attend a general information meeting about the programme.

British Values

Grange C of E School promote British Values as we believe these core values of Democracy, Rule of Law, Respect and Tolerance and Individual Liberty ensure children become well rounded citizens of the future. The values are intertwined with our teaching across subjects and work in collective worship and PSHE. Children learn about UN (United Nation) Rights of the Child and the Global Sustainable Goals which all help them to understand why they should be ‘good neighbours’ and treat others as they would wish to be treated.