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title: "PSHE"
url: "https://kirkham-grammar-school.schudio.com/courses/infants-and-juniors/pshe"
school: "Kirkham Grammar School"
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# PSHE

***“PSHE education gives pupils the knowledge, skills, and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy and safe and to prepare them for life and work in modern Britain.” PSHE ASSOCIATION***

Our scheme at KGJS  is based on four core themes, within which there will be broad overlap and flexibility:

Health and Wellbeing

Relationships

Living in the Wider World

Growth Mindset

### What will I study?

#### Core Theme 1: Health and Wellbeing

- what is meant by a healthy lifestyle
- how to maintain physical, mental, and emotional health and wellbeing
- how to manage risks to physical and emotional health and wellbeing
- ways of keeping physically and emotionally safe
- about managing change, including puberty, transition, and loss
- how to make informed choices about health and wellbeing and to recognise sources of help with this
- how to respond in an emergency
- to identify different influences on health and wellbeing

#### Core Theme 2: Relationships

- how to develop and maintain a variety of healthy relationships, within a range of social/cultural contexts
- how to recognise and manage emotions within a range of relationships
- how to recognise risky or negative relationships including all forms of bullying and abuse
- how to respond to risky or negative relationships and ask for help
- how to respect equality and diversity in relationships

#### Core Theme 3: Living in the wider world

- about respect for self and others and the importance of responsible behaviours and actions
- about rights and responsibilities as members of families, other groups and ultimately as citizens
- about different groups and communities
- to respect diversity and equality and how to be a productive member of a diverse community
- about the importance of respecting and protecting the environment
- about where money comes from, keeping it safe and the importance of managing it effectively
- the part that money plays in people’s lives
- a basic understanding of enterprise

#### Core Theme 4: Growth Mindset

- learning from mistakes
- challenge
- effort
- resilience
- perseverance
- becoming a confident, independent learner

## Kirkham Grammar School

## Kirkham Grammar Junior, Infant &amp; Pre-School

  Ribby Rd
Kirkham
Preston
Lancashire
PR4 2BH   Tel: **01772 684264**
 Email: <info@kirkhamgrammar.co.uk>

  Ribby Road
Kirkham
Preston
Lancashire
PR4 2BD   Tel: **01772 673222**
 Email: <infokgjs@kirkhamgrammarjnr.co.uk>

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