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PHSCE and Thrive at Sea View

The purpose of PHSCE

At Sea View 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 education, which must be delivered to every primary-aged pupil. Primary schools also have the option to decide whether pupils are taught sex education. State-funded primary schools are also required to teach health 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.

The Thrive approach

Using a positive relational stance with children, through play, creativity and the arts, the Thrive Approach helps them make the most of their learning opportunities.

Seizing these, and meeting developmental needs at the right-time, can help pupils become more resilient, open to learning and able to thrive.

It is this approach that ultimately makes a difference in the lives of pupils and enables them to fulfil their full potential.

Meet Paddy PSCHE

Paddy is part of our Curriculum Crew who is introduced at the start of each topic and lesson, providing a visual link to lessons and allows our children to focus on the skills needed in the upcoming tasks.

Paddy is featured as part of our PSCHE Pathway Journey - allowing the children to revisit and consolidate prior learning .

2024 - 2025

Nursery

Its Okay To Be Different

We are all different and it is OK! Written and illustrated by Todd Parr

We listened to the story 'It's okay to be different' and talked about our similarities and differences. We looked at each others' hair, skin and eye colour and talked about how we are all different, all special.

We used different media to create representations of ourselves and talked about our different families and what we like doing with them.

Reception

The Stompysaurus 

In Thrive, we read the story 'The Stompysaurus'. We discussed the different feelings that we can feel and how we can express them. We spoke about how we can sometimes feel overwhelmed and fustrated how we can deal with these feelings. 

Keeping safe on our school trip

We discussed ways in which we can keep safe on the school trip to the Customs House and for Afternoon Tea. We spoke about the importance of listening to the adults that were in a group with, holding our partners hand, not talking to strangers, staying on the path when walking down the road and wearing a seatbelt at all times on the bus.  

Year 1

The Worrysaurus

We have been reading The Worrysaurus during Thrive week!

Our story was all about a Worrysaurus whose worries were making his tummy feel funny. He made a happy tin to help him with his worries and had a lovely day with his friend having a picnic.

We created our own happy tin and filled it with things that made us happy!

We also helped the Worrysaurus get ready by brushing his teeth and making some snacks for his picnic.

The Worrysaurus by Rachel Bright

Year 2 

PHSCE Week

We read 'The New Jumper' and learned about how we should celebrate our differences. We talked about how it is important to be ourselves because we are all unique and special in our own ways. We drew our own characters from the book and designed our own jumpers that were all unique! We used different materials and colours to collage the jumpers. 

 

During this week we also read the story 'Frog is Frog' following this story we spoke about the importance of embracing our own individual talents and how we should celebrate them. We also wrote a letter to frog to let him know that he shouldn't be sad and should celebrate his own talents. 

Year 3

Giraffes Can't Dance - Giles Andreae

Giraffes Can't Dance!

We explored the themes of feelings, emotions  and being unique through the story 'Giraffe's Can't Dance'.

 

Year 4

Aaaarrgghh! Spider!

All Spider wants is to be a family pet. But the family whose house he lives in are terrified of him. Whenever he tries to show them what a great pet he would make, they simply cry, 'Aaaarrgghh, Spider!'. Themes of tolerance and misunderstanding make key discussion points for children in this book.

 

Our Year 4 children have been having a fantastic time reading the fun and engaging book Aaaarrgghh, Spider! By Lydia Monks. As part of their reading skills lessons, the children wrote in the role of the Spider by writing a thought bubble about what the spider would be thinking throughout the story. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 5

I Really Want To Shout!

We discussed how we could relate to the girl in the story and shared times when we feel like we really need to shout! We explored strategies to help the little girl control her emotions and wrote emails and guides full of helpful advice. 

Year 6

As part of Thrive Week Year 6 enjoyed reading Voices in the Park by the author Anthony Browne. Four different voices tell their own versions of the same walk in the park. The different perspectives give a fascinating depth. The story explores many of important  themes, such as alienation, friendship and different emotions. Take a look at our thought tracking and agony aunt letters...  

2023-2024

Nursery

In small group time we used images to help us to identify our feelings and talked about reasons that can make us feel a certain way.

We used the mirrors to look at ourselves and talked about how we are all different, all special, before exploring the activities and creating representations with the different resources.

We listened to some different stories about sharing, being friends and being kind. To promote well-being in the class, we now have a 'Kindness' jar and if we do a kind thing for a friend or grown up, we can add a pom pom to our Kindness jar. We are going to see if we can fill it quickly! We also made our own kindness hats, with our own ideas for messages on them, "always share and be kind," "play together," "use your manners", "we say sorry," "tell Mammy I love her."

Reception

We have been learning about one of the 7c’s and all about collaboration . We worked in partners, using our good manners, using each other’s name and making eye contact. We had a challenge to move the cube from one end of the ruler to the other without touching the cube. We had to think about our strategy and work together. It was so much fun! 

We love to celebrate our achievements with our friends that we have been doing out of school. We are confident to share our news in class.

In Thrive time we are learning about British Values and the first value we are learning about is honesty . We listened to the story ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ and discussed the importance of telling the truth and being honest . We talked about the little boy in the story being dishonest and what the consequences were for him. We then read several scenarios and sorted them into three categories honest, dishonest and not sure. 

We also did some role play. We agreed it is always better to be honest even if we know it might get us into trouble. 

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In Thrive, we read the story 'Thank You' by Janine Amos. At different parts of the story we discussed how the characters were feeling e.g. how Gran was feeling when Sam didn't say thank you for his birthday gift. We spoke about how important it is to have good manners and say thank you when we receive something or someone does something nice for us. 

We then made a circle and passed around our autumn toy. As we were given the toy from our friends, we said "thank you" to show our good manners. 

Year 1

Blue Penguin

We read the story blue penguin and stopped to discuss how the penguin might be feeling at different parts of the story. The children noticed that the penguin was unique and they all shared something about them which made them unique. 

 

The children realised that it was good to be different and we came up with the motto: 'We are all unique individuals but together we make the perfect team!' 

 

We then linked this to the story 'Have You Filled a Bucket Today' and talked about all of the things we could do to help the penguin feel happy. The children came up with fabulous ideas and we used these to build our class charter. 

Year 2

As part of our THRIVE approach to PSHE we have been developing our collaborative working skills.  We greeted our partner using a hand shake and welcomed them to our session and them took turns to draw each element of a robot.  We shared our robots in a circle time and talked about all of the details we contributed to the overall design.  

Year 3

British Values are an important part of our teaching and the children have been learning about mutual respect.

In our Thrive time today, we looked at the importance of teamwork. We worked on a task together with a partner and needed to figure out a way of making the task fair for everyone to get an equal turn.

Year 4

Black History Month

 

This month we have been celebrating Black History month. We researched and discussed a range of achievements from Black people from the past and today. We particularly enjoyed the story of Rosa Parks.

Year 5

I Really Want To Shout!

Inspired by this fabulous picture book by Simon Philip and Lucia Gaggiotti,as part of a PSCHE themed week, we explored strategies to help the little girl control her emotions. We had huge fun designing monsters to help control our inner feelings.

We wrote emails to the little girl in the story, offering her advice and strategies of what to do when you really want to shout.

Year 6

As part of Thrive Week Year 6 enjoyed reading Voices in the Park by the author Anthony Browne. Four different voices tell their own versions of the same walk in the park. The different perspectives give a fascinating depth. The story explores many of important  themes, such as alienation, friendship and different emotions. 

After reading the story, we stepped into the shoes of the four different voices/characters. We described our feelings and our experience of the park. Take a look at our terrific thought bubbles...

One of the characters from the story (Charles) is struggling with emotions and his feeling lonely, isolated and in need of help. We wrote letters in role as Charles to an Agony Aunt explaining our problems and asking for advice/solutions. Here are some of our incredible letters. 

Take a look at our amazing art work inspired by the story!

Attendance

  • Reception 88.34
  • Year 1 93.39
  • Year 2 94.35
  • Year 3 93.83
  • Year 4 93.91
  • Year 5 91.57
  • Year 6 92.95
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Norham Avenue North, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE34 7TD

Telephone: 0191 4274343

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