PSHE
PSHE at St Mary’s Hare Park School is a comprehensive curriculum that gives our children the relevant context to build skills, attitudes, self-esteem, resilience and confidence. It is more than just a curriculum programme and offers whole school opportunities to reinforce the curriculum work and enhance the positive ethos of the whole school community.
We follow ‘Ten Ten: Life to the Full’ scheme as their mission is to nurture spiritual growth, personal development and social responsibility by sharing inspiring, creative content through a Catholic lens. As a school we aim to cover a wide range of the social and emotional aspects of learning, enabling children to develop their identity and self-esteem as active, confident citizens. They will also learn to become independent taking on the role of making informed and safe decisions to benefit their own personal growth now and in the future.
Ten Ten
Ten Ten: Life to the Full is intended to be a partnership between home, school and church. We know that Catholic schools already do fantastic partnership work with parents and their local parish, and this programme is intended to fit in with and support those partnerships. Assemblies and Collective Worships are also celebrated through this programme and it shows unity for the whole school when celebrating special events or key dates. We offer a mindful approach to PSHE, bringing together Personal, Social, Health Education, emotional literacy, social skills and spiritual development in a comprehensive scheme of learning. A weekly lesson is taught within each year group, with a focus on the same topic. Children are taught mindfulness techniques and how to regulate and manage their thoughts and feelings.
Modules and Topics
There are three modules for each school term and each module offers different topics:
Autumn: Created and Loved by God
- Religious Understanding
- Me, My Body and My Health
- Emotional Wellbeing
- Life Cycles
Spring: Created to Love Others
- Religious Understanding
- Personal Relationships
- Life Online
- Keeping Safe
Summer: Created to live in Community
- Religious Understanding
- Living in the Wider World
As a whole school, we follow the belief that if attention is paid to supporting children’s personal and emotional development in a structured and developmentally appropriate way, this will not only improve their capacity to learn across the curriculum, but will ultimately improve their life chances. The lessons are structured to:
- Improve their social skills to better enable collaborative learning
- Relax their bodies and calm their minds to prepare them for learning
- Help their brain to focus on specific learning intentions
- Initiate new learning
- Facilitate learning activities to reinforce the new learning
- Support them in reflecting on their learning and personal development
Children across the school celebrate each topic together and progression is made each year. They have an opportunity to talk, take ownership of their learning, produce work for display and feel a sense of achievement. The whole school is involved in celebrating our core values and attitudes and as a school we have a sense of community and belonging whilst raising children’s self-esteem and sense of identity.
As part of Life to the Full, we have created an Online Parent Portal. This section of our website is available to all parents whose child’s school uses Life to the Full. The Online Parent Portal provides a summary of each lesson, links to specific content and suggestions for further engagement at home. Every school is given a unique username and password which they can distribute to parents to provide all-year-round access to the portal.
