Personal Development at Lindhead
What is PSHE?
PSHE stands for Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education. It helps children develop the knowledge, language and confidence they need to understand themselves, build positive relationships, stay safe, make healthy choices and take part responsibly in the wider world.
At Lindhead, PSHE is taught through our planned curriculum, but it is also reinforced through assemblies, safeguarding work, wellbeing support, displays, visitors, pupil leadership, school routines and the wider curriculum. This means children meet important messages more than once, in different contexts, helping them to connect what they learn in lessons with everyday life.
This page explains how PSHE is supported across the wider life of the school. Our separate PSHE Curriculum page gives more detail about the planned curriculum content taught in each year group.
PSHE across school life
At Lindhead, PSHE is not limited to one weekly lesson. Important messages are reinforced through assemblies, collective worship, safeguarding work, wellbeing support, displays, visitors, pupil leadership, school routines and the wider curriculum.
This means children revisit key themes in different contexts as they move through school. These include friendship, respect, kindness, democracy, equality, online safety, healthy choices, managing worries, understanding difference, safe relationships and knowing how to ask trusted adults for help.
Assemblies provide regular whole-school opportunities to revisit shared messages and build a common language across school. The wider curriculum also supports PSHE through subjects such as English, RE, Computing, Science, PE, DT and EYFS provision, where pupils explore themes including family, feelings, empathy, debate, inclusion, responsibility, transition and aspiration.
Our aim is for pupils to learn about PSHE not only in lessons, but through the way we talk, behave, support each other and live out our school values every day.
Continuing to strengthen our PSHE offer
We regularly review how PSHE is taught and reinforced across school. This includes looking at curriculum coverage, pupil voice, safeguarding themes, assemblies, governor oversight and how well pupils remember and apply key messages.
We continue to develop this work so that pupils can confidently explain what they have learned, how it helps them, and who they can go to if they need support.