Personal Development

At Sandhills Primary School we aim to develop and nurture pupils, enabling them to flourish and be ready for life-long learning.

We aim to support all children to develop their social awareness; strength of character and their understanding of how they can make a positive impact on their school and wider community. We aim to prepare our children for the wider world so that they can have a strong sense of purpose and belonging, and so that they have the confidence to make their voices heard.

Personal Development at Sandhills extends beyond our curriculum. Enrichment experiences are carefully planned to broaden pupils’ horizons and enhance their knowledge, skills and abilities. We also offer a range of opportunities for our pupils to develop their talents and interests through extra curricular activities in school.

Personal development at Sandhills enables all pupils to develop spiritually, morally, socially and culturally.

Values

Our values are part of everything that we do. Values are discussed in assemblies, during lessons and throughout the school day by staff and pupils in school. Evidence of our values in action are celebrated through class ‘Values Jars’ and in whole school assemblies where ‘Values Champions’, children who have demonstrated our values over and above our usual expectations, are celebrated.

Curriculum

PSHE (Personal, Social and Health education) - Our PSHE programme is delivered through the JIGSAW programme. Our PSHE sessions have a strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health. For more information please click here to see our PSHE curriculum.

RSHE (Relationships education, Sex education and Health education) - Our RSHE programme is delivered as part of our JIGSAW PSHE programme. Our programme is carefully planned, sequenced and delivered in an age appropriate way across the school. This includes curriculum content under two headings (DfE 2019):

Relationships Education

• Families and people who care for me
• Caring Friendships
• Respectful Relationships
• Online Relationships
• Being safe

Health Education 

• Mental wellbeing
• Internet safety and harms
• Physical health and fitness
• Healthy Eating 
• Drugs, alcohol and tobacco
• Health and prevention
• Basic first aid
• Changing adolescent body

For further information on our curriculum please click here.

Zones of regulation - Regulation is something that everyone continually works on. We follow the Zones of Regulation, a proactive skills based programme to support pupils to recognise when they are becoming less regulated and learn what they can do to manage their feelings and regulate themselves. Zones is a simple common language and teaching follows a systematic framework with a developmental sequence of lessons that are adapted to suit the needs of our pupils.

Core Texts - Texts to support learning in our curriculum have been carefully selected so that the children see themselves and others in our community, but also introduce them to characters, settings and stories that reflect the  full diversity of the society in which we live.