PCHCE at Westover Green Primary School
At Westover Green school we provide many opportunities to promote pupils’
personal and social development. These include:
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Specific PSHCE courses
Core and foundation subjects
Assemblies
Circle Time
Literacy and Numeracy hour
Cross-curricular projects
School Council
Peer education
Invited visitors
Whole school events e.g.
Health/environment weeks
Educational visits and school trips
Residential experiences
Sports teams
Playground buddies
Corridor monitors
Whole school events, e.g. Summer fete, Xmas fete, Concerts, theatrical
productions.
Dance club
School choirs
Lunch- time ICT club
Reception induction
Secondary school liaison
Golden time
Playtimes
Golden book assembly
Anti-bullying week
At Westover Green we use the SEAL (social and emotional aspects
of learning)
resources during our PSHCE lessons. It provides a
framework for promoting social, emotional and behavioural skills, with built in
progression for each year group within the school.
There are 7 themes to be covered with one theme being addressed during
“Anti-bullying week” in November.
The seven themes are:
Theme 1: New beginnings
Theme 2: Getting on and falling out
Theme 3: Say no to bullying
Theme 4: Going for goals!
Theme 5: Good to be me
Theme 6: Relationships
Theme 7: Changes
Theme 1: New beginnings
This theme focuses on developing children’s knowledge, understanding and
skills in four key social and emotional aspects of learning: empathy, selfawareness, social skills and motivation.
The theme offers children the opportunity to see themselves as valued
individuals within a community, and to contribute to shaping a welcoming,
safe and fair learning community for all. Throughout the theme, children
explore feelings of happiness and excitement, sadness, anxiety and
fearfulness, and learn shared models for ‘calming down’ and ‘problem
solving’.
The assembly at the start of the theme is about a very wonderful beginning
and how a whole new world is created. As a school we related this to the
wonderful beginning of a new school year and what we would want in it.
Theme 2: Getting on and falling out
This theme focuses on developing children's knowledge, understanding and
skills in three key social and emotional aspects of learning: empathy,
managing feelings (with a focus on anger) and social skills.
The theme is intended to extend the work of Theme 1: New beginnings on
cooperation and valuing diversity, and focusing on four key content areas:
developing the social skills of friendship, working well together in a group,
managing anger and resolving conflict.
The assembly is about friendship and something magical called “friendship
tokens”. The children have learned that these tokens are like magic because
the more you give away then the more you have!!
Can you see these people giving each other
friendship tokens?
Theme 3: Say no to bullying
This theme aims to develop and revisit four of the key social and emotional
aspects of learning covered in previous themes through a focus on bullying –
what it is, how it feels, why people bully, how we can prevent and respond to
it, and how children can use their social, emotional and behavioural skills to
tackle this crucial problem. The four aspects of learning in which knowledge,
skills and understanding are developed are self-awareness, empathy,
managing feelings and social skills.
This theme occurs during a week in November.
The assembly story tells of a girl is being bullied and how things change for
the better when she tells someone what is happening to her.
Theme 4: Going for goals!
This theme focuses primarily on the key aspect of motivation, with a
subsidiary focus on self-awareness. It gives an important opportunity for all
children’s abilities, qualities and strengths to be valued.
The theme provides opportunities for children to reflect on themselves as
individuals, particularly their strengths as learners and how they learn most
effectively.
The assembly is about knowing what you want to achieve and setting out to
achieve it. The children learn that it can be hard work achieving their goals.
They might get bored or scared, or they might feel like giving up because it
seems too difficult. They might not even be able to do it on their own and
need friends to help them. The story tells of a boy called Samindra who has
something very difficult to achieve.
Theme 5: Good to be me
This theme is the first of two focusing specifically on feelings. It explores
feelings in the context of the child as an individual, developing self-awareness
and helping the child to realise that it really is ‘Good to be me'.
The theme is about understanding our feelings as well as considering our
strengths and weaknesses as learners. It aims to develop knowledge,
understanding and skills in three key social and emotional aspects of learning:
self-awareness, managing feelings and empathy. The theme focuses on:
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understanding feelings, and why and how they lead us to behave the
way we do – particularly the feelings excited, proud, surprised, hopeful,
disappointed, worried and anxious;
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self-awareness – feeling good about myself, taking risks;
managing my feelings – relaxing, coping with anxiety;
standing up for myself - assertiveness, standing up for my views.
The assembly at the start of the theme teaches the children that they are all
special. The story tells of some of the animals that live in a forest. Of all the
animals, it is the mouse that has forgotten that she has her own special gift.
Theme 6: Relationships
This theme is the second of two focusing specifically on feelings. It explores
feelings within the context of our important relationships including family and
friends. The theme aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in
three key social and emotional aspects of learning: self-awareness, managing
feelings and empathy.
In addition, there is a focus throughout the theme on helping children
understand the feelings associated with an experience that we all need to
cope with at some time: that of loss – whether of a favourite possession, a
friend, a family home, or a loved one. The assembly story focuses on
uncomfortable and difficult feelings.
Theme 7: Changes
This theme tackles the issue of change and aims to equip children with an
understanding of different types of change, positive and negative, and
common human responses to it.
The theme seeks to develop children’s ability to understand and manage the
feelings associated with change. It aims to develop knowledge, understanding
and skills in three key social and emotional aspects of learning: motivation,
social skills and managing feelings.
The assembly story tells of the changes of some children of different ages. It
covers excited feelings and uncomfortable feelings.