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PSHE Religious Education
Personal, Social and Health Education plays At Green Gates, we teach our children
a huge role here at Green Gates and is about several different world religions and
embedded into everything we do. We work ensure they leave with an understanding of
together to ensure that we support the different faiths and traditions. We believe
whole child and work towards developing that this is essential in promoting skills
future citizens who know how to look after such as tolerance and respect.
themselves, their community and the wider Intent
world.
As a school, we aim to:
Intent
✦ Ensure that children know about and
As a school, we aim to: develop an understanding of a range of
religions so that they can describe, explain
✦ Ensure our children know and understand what and analyse beliefs and practises,
constitutes a healthy lifestyle; recognising the diversity which exists within
✦ Make children aware of how to stay safe, including and between communities and amongst
online; individuals;
✦ Ensure pupils know what a healthy relationship is; ✦ Enable children to express ideas and gain
insights about the nature, significance and
✦ Help pupils develop their resilience, perseverance impact of religions and worldviews to enable
and self esteem;
them to express, with increasing
✦ Develop mindfulness which will help increase discernment, their personal reflections and
concentration, emotional awareness and focus; critical responses to questions and teachings
✦ Ensure our pupils become active members of their about identity, diversity, meaning and value
community. including ethical issues;
✦ Allow children to gain and deploy the skills
needed to engage seriously with religions
Implementation and world views, so that they can articulate
We follow the Jigsaw Scheme of work within school beliefs, find out about and investigate key
but have adapted this to suit the needs of our concepts and questions of belonging,
pupils. Jigsaw consists of six half-term units of work meaning, purpose and truth.
(Puzzles), each containing six lessons (Pieces)
covering each academic year. Implementation
Every Piece has two Learning Intentions, one
specific to Relationships and Health Education (PSHE) We teach RE weekly throughout school, which
and the other designed to develop emotional literacy ensures that children can develop their knowledge
and social skills. and create meaningful links. Teachers are
Puzzles are launched in a whole-school assembly encouraged to invite various visitors into school as
containing an original song, with each year group well as arrange visits to various places of worship.
studying the same unit at the same time (at their
own level), building sequentially through the school
year, facilitating whole-school learning themes.
The various teaching and learning activities are
engaging and mindful of different learning styles
and the need for differentiation.
