PSHE

Burnt Oak adopts the Jigsaw PSHE scheme throughout the school from Nursery to Year 6. Jigsaw is taught progressively throughout the school and is at the heart of our curriculum to prepare our children to achieve emotional success (one of our values) alongside physical and academic success. The age-appropriate lessons support the spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils, at school and in society. Safeguarding underpins every lesson in Jigsaw and supports our complete commitment to safeguarding our pupils. The concepts taught throughout Jigsaw are: empathy, identity and safety.   

British Values and SMSC are mapped throughout Jigsaw. The Department for Education (DfE) has stated: “Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education is an important and necessary part of all pupils’ education. All schools should teach PSHE, drawing on good practice, and this expectation is outlined in the introduction to the proposed new national curriculum.”  The PSHE Association states “PSHE education gives pupils the knowledge, skills, and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy and safe and to prepare them for life and work in modern Britain…. When taught well, PSHE education helps pupils to achieve their academic potential, and leave school equipped with skills they will need throughout later life.”  

Jigsaw holds children at its heart, and its cohesive vision helps children understand and value how they fit into and contribute to the world. With strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health, Jigsaw 3-11 properly equips schools to deliver engaging and relevant PSHE within a whole-school approach. Jigsaw lessons also include mindfulness allowing children to advance their emotional awareness, concentration and focus.  

To ensure a depth and accuracy of learning which builds upon prior learning, all classes undertake weekly PSHE lessons which follow Jigsaw 3-11, a fully planned and spiralling/progressive PSHE scheme. As a school, we follow a set theme each half term, which is introduced, in a whole school assembly.  Lessons are underpinned by the Jigsaw behaviour charter, which reinforces our character values of empathy and responsibility.  

The 6 Jigsaw themes are: 

In addition, Anti-bullying week, Internet Safety Day, charity days, road safety, restart a heart sessions and support from our pastoral and SEN team enhance the mission of our PSHE curriculum.  

Assessment: The teacher records sessions in their online class Jigsaw book & assess each child termly via RAG rating.  

Each Jigsaw puzzle complements and promotes our character values.

Relationships and Sex Education: 

At Burnt Oak Primary our RSE curriculum is firmly embedded in our Jigsaw (PSHE) curriculum.  An important part of the Jigsaw PSHE programme is delivered through the 'Relationships' and 'Changing Me' puzzle pieces which are covered in the summer term.  

There are four main aims of teaching RSE: 

• To enable children to understand and respect their bodies 
• To help children develop positive and healthy relationships appropriate to their age and development 
• To support children to have positive self-esteem and body image 
• To empower them to be safe and safeguarded. 

Each year group will be taught appropriate to their age and developmental stage. At no point will a child be taught something that is inappropriate.  

Below is a summary of RSE coverage within the Jigsaw scheme for each year group: 

• Foundation Stage - Growing up: how we have changed since we were babies 
• Year 1 - Boys’ and girls’ bodies; naming body parts 
• Year 2 - Boys’ and girls’ bodies; body parts and respecting privacy (which parts of the body are private and why this is) 
• Year 3 - How babies grow and how boys’ and girls’ bodies change as they grow older 
• Year 4 - Internal and external reproductive body parts, body changes in girls and menstruation 
• Year 5 - Puberty for boys and girls, and conception 
• Year 6 - Puberty for boys and girls and understanding conception to birth of a baby 

Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE, is a progressive and spiral scheme of learning. In planning the lessons, Jigsaw PSHE ensures that learning from previous years is revisited and extended, adding new concepts, knowledge and skills, year on year as appropriate. The table below draws out the spiral knowledge and skills progression within all six Puzzles (units of work) including the key vocabulary used in each year group; explicit links to the DfE statutory Relationships and Health Education outcomes have been made in each Puzzle.

 INTENT: Jigsaw holds children at its heart, and its cohesive vision helps children understand and value how they fit into and contribute to the world. With strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health, Jigsaw 3-11 properly equips schools to deliver engaging and relevant PSHE within a whole-school approach. Jigsaw lessons also include mindfulness allowing children to advance their emotional awareness, concentration, focus and self-regulation.

 IMPLEMENTATION: Jigsaw 3-11 offers a comprehensive programme for Primary PSHE, including statutory Relationships and Health Education, in a spiral, progressive and fully planned scheme of work, giving children relevant learning experiences to help them navigate their world and to develop positive relationships with themselves and others.

 IMPACT: This can be established through assessment identified in the key learning.