Trotts Hill Primary School and Nursery
"Today you are You, that is truer than true!
There is no-one alive who is you-er than You!"
- Dr Seuss
At Trotts Hill School, we believe that personal, social and health education (PSHE) is crucial in order to enable our children to become healthy, safe, independent and responsible members of society. Our PSHE curriculum aims to help all children understand how they are growing and changing, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues which arise in school, our local community and the wider world. Our aim is to ensure that Trotts Hill is a supportive, stimulating and caring school which has high expected standards of behaviour and manners. Our school behaviours and attitudes to learning are underpinned by our whole school values and learning behaviours, which are taught through PSHE lessons, whole school assemblies and are an integral part of all lessons to the success of the whole school.
We are a member of the PSHE Association and follow their Programme of Study in Years 1 to 6. We make use of the Statutory Framework and Development Matters in the EYFS. For a full and detailed overview of the learning across each year group, including specific learning objectives, please contact your Key Stage Leader or a member of the Welltech faculty.
Year 1 learned about the parts of the brain as part of their Mind Up lesson.
Kidscape provided an excellent workshop to combat bullying. They learned that how to recognise bullying and how a ringleader of bullying behaviour has others who enable it by being a reinforcer, assistant or bystander. Bullying behaviour is successful when there is an imbalance of power. The children were taught to change the imbalance by recognising the roles and making sure that they become defenders and tell an adult.
Year 3 started Hello Yellow day with a fantastic Yoga session. They also completed the Feelings doodling activity.
Year 4 worked together to create pictures using their bodies. They had to co-operate and listen to each other in order to be successful.
KS1 and EYFS had a fantastic road safety workshop learning about people who help us in and around the road. They thought about the different people who help us and how they help us when we need them. The children thought about their own safety in cars too.
Finally the children had a chance to sit in a police car, listen to the sirens and beep the horn!
Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 had a fantastic time learning about different foods. They read the hungry Caterpillar and then created their own colourful caterpillar using different fruits and vegetable. The children then tried the food. They tried to challenge themselves to try new foods.
The food they tried were: red, green and yellow peppers, tomatoes, spinach, radishes, grapes and oranges.
Thank you to Herts Catering for providing such a lovely workshop.
The children thought about different emotions we can show through the day. They then acted out the emotions for the class to guess.
We discussed the importance of keeping safe near water and what we needed to do if we got into trouble.
We looked at signs which tell us about the sea and how to be safe around the water.
Why is the water dangerous ?
Indie because there might be sharks
Tilly there might be a big wave and it might go in your eyes or ears or you might drink it
Fraser it might go up your nose
Edward you might sink
Year 3 children discussed what makes a person unique and special. We discussed the different qualities, personality and interests which makes each individual special and unique. Children then produced a list highlighting these in their partners.
In PSHE, we discussed how we can identify and manage our feelings, including extremely uncomfortable feelings such as grief. We shared strategies we could use when we are feeling different emotions. In addition, we wrote positive affirmations and discussed how this can impact on how we feel about ourselves.
As part of children's mental health week, we had a discussion about what we are good at and how it makes us feel. We then though about what we might like to do in the future that we cannot do now. We listened to relaxing mindful music whilst watching the bubbles on the screen. We completed some mindful colouring and laid down snuggled up in cushions, listening to stories.
As part of Mental Health week, Year 3 discussed the things which they are good at and the things which they would like to learn. They discussed the feelings which they might experience when they are learning something new.
Stevenage Sporting Futures led a lesson for year 4 about health and well-being. They discussed the importance of exercise, eating healthy, sleep and mental health. They even bought in mini fruit kebabs for the children to enjoy and gave each child a water bottle.