PSHE, RSE and Careers

At The Rowan School we teach PSHE (Personal, Social, Health & Economic) and RSE (Relationships & Sex Education) through specific designed schemes of work. We combine opportunities throughout our Enrichment curriculum and PSHE curriculum to ensure children develop their skills with emotional literacy, mindfulness, social skills and spiritual development.

There are Three key themes that are embedded within the PSHE curriculum: Health and Wellbeing, Living in the Wider World and Relationships. Each theme is delivered through lessons which are age and stage-appropriate so that they meet children’s needs. Every year each group studies the same theme at the same time (sequentially ordered from September to July), allowing for whole school themes to be explored with children, for example, a display or assembly to be shared and celebrated by the whole school.

‘Health and Wellbeing’ covers a wide range of topics, including ‘Growing Up’, ‘Safety First’, ‘It’s My Body’, ‘Think Positive’ etc.

‘Living in the Wider World’ focuses on ‘Aiming High’ (Careers), encouraging children to start to think about their dreams and ambitions and goals for success. Children learn about what makes Britain diverse, and celebrating diversity, such as disability, racism, power and friendship.

‘Relationships’ aims to help children to think about looking at diverse topics such as families, friendships, pets and animals, and love and loss. Making key links to how we keep ourselves safe, this links to cyber safety and social networking, as well as attraction and assertiveness. Children learn how to deal with conflict, their own strengths and self-esteem. They have the chance to explore roles and responsibilities in families and look at stereotypes.

Parents have the right to request children are removed from lessons teaching certain elements of RSE. Information on this can be downloaded here.

Our theme ‘Living in the Wider World’ and enrichment curriculum encompasses careers, where we cover ‘Dreams and Goals’, which aims to help learners  to start to think about their hopes and dreams, their goals for success, what their personal strengths are, and how to overcome challenges.

At The Rowan School we explore Careers and future goals from an early age, we ensure all learners have opportunities throughout the year, so they can explore a variety of future career prospects.

We experience multiple career talks from individuals from numerous sectors outside of education through a collated video recording that is shared as part of an assembly for our learners. We invite external agencies into school to talk and share their experiences with our learners, such as the fire service, which the children thoroughly enjoy.

Learners also enjoy experiencing different career opportunities through educational trips and visits, such as the Zoo, Museum and Library. These experiences develop further understanding of particular careers and contribute to seeing these careers in action.

We offer all learners the Junior Duke of Edinburgh Award, this supports learners to gain an understanding of the basic life and practical skills needed to achieve success beyond academic and sporting abilities. It is designed to develop the independent skills and thoughts needed for the world of work, life and the wider community.

At The Rowan School, learners are given the opportunity each year to celebrate their idea of career prospects through a Careers Day we call, “Make Your Dreams Come True”. On this day, learners dress up in clothes representing their chosen career, research the skills needed for that job, and share their ideas with each other.