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.
A group of Year 6 children visited Stevenage Police Station after winning a competition as part of their Mini Police project. The children were given a tour of the station by Neil Dowler a Police Community Support Officer. Some of the rooms the children went into were the gun armoury and inspection rooms. The children met some of the team and they sat in the area police car and tried on some of the uniform.
To begin our PSHE unit 'Living in the Wider World,' we have been focusing on diversity. 'What does this mean to us? What does this mean to the school? What does this mean to the wider community?' are some of the questions we have explored. We now have a greater understanding of diversity and the importance of having a diverse community and we captured this in a class film.
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!
