PSHE/ RSE
Intent
AtTeesville Academy, we use KAPOW scheme of work to deliver our PSHE & RSE curriculum. The scheme aims to give children the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that they need to effectively navigate the complexities of life in the 21st Century. The curriculum covers key areas which will support children to make informed choices now and in the future around their health, safety, wellbeing, relationships, and financial matters and will support them in becoming confident individuals and active members of society. The KAPOW scheme significantly contributes to pupils personal development and promotes the fundamental British values which reflect life in modern Britain: democracy; rule of law; respect and tolerance and individual liberty.
Implementation
The KAPOW Primary scheme is a whole school approach that consists of three areas of learning in EYFS and five areas of learning across Key Stages One and Two.
EYFS
Self regulation
Building Relationships
Managing Self
Key Stage One and Two
Families and relationships
Health and wellbeing
Safety and the changing body
Citizenship
Economic wellbeing
Each area is revisited to allow children to build on prior learning. Lessons are progressive in nature and are based on the statutory requirements for Health and Relationships education. Where lessons go beyond these requirements they refer to the PSHE Association Programme of Study.
The scheme supports the requirements of the Equality Act through direct teaching, for example learning about different families, the negative effect of stereotypes and celebrating differences, in addition to the inclusion of diverse teaching resources
throughout the lessons.
Impact
Each lesson within Kapow Primary’s scheme features assessment guidance, helping teachers to identify whether pupils have met, exceeded, or failed to meet the desired learning intentions for that lesson. Each unit of lessons comes with an Assessment quiz and Knowledge catcher. The quiz contains 10 questions, nine of which are multiple-choice and can be used either at the end of the unit or at both the start and the end to help measure progress and identify any gaps in learning. The Knowledge catchers list some of the lesson titles in mind-map or table format and can be used at the start of a unit to see what the children already know and to inform planning, and then pupils can revisit the same version of the Knowledge catcher at the end of the unit to add what else they now know, further demonstrating their progression in learning. Once taught the full scheme, children will have met the objectives set out within the Relationships and Health Education statutory guidance and can utilise their learning within their daily lives, from dealing with friendship issues to resilience to making healthy choices and knowing where and how to get help when needed.
