Kaizen Primary School

Intent

At Kaizen Primary School, we enable our children to become independent, responsible and healthy members of society. Our aim is to equip children to understand how they are developing personally and socially whilst developing resilience to tackle any moral, social or cultural issue they may experience.  We provide opportunities to explore, understand and respectfully challenge their own and others’ values, attitudes, beliefs, rights and responsibilities ensuring that children appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse community. 

By providing pupils with a happy, purposeful and supportive environment, children are enabled to become successful learners, develop their full potential and achieve the highest educational standards that they can. Our school reflects a passionate commitment to learning and recognition of the uniqueness of individual learners. It is driven by our shared desire to offer the best possible education for our pupils in partnership with parents and the local community. 

Implementation

Relationships, Health and Sex Education (RSHE) is central to Kaizen’s ethos, supporting children in their development, and underpinning learning in the classroom, school, and in the wider community. We believe a collaborative culture is vital in enabling children to develop personally and emotionally, and as young citizens.

Our curriculum offers a comprehensive program which supports pupils’ spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life, as set out in Section 78 of the Education Act 2002. Through JIGSAW, teaching and learning comprises of

• Health and Wellbeing
• Relationships
• Living in the Wider World

We understand that children have missed opportunities of learning because of the COVID outbreak and the resulting distance and blended learning models that were used in the previous school years. Our current teaching model ensures that any missed opportunities are addressed before teaching new concepts and topics. This pre teaching approach ensures that children are able to access the new learning and build upon their knowledge and skills. 

Aspects of RSHE are embedded in learning within the provision of SEND learning to ensure that all children have access to a broad and balanced curriculum. Themes are planned throughout the year that allow for RSHE skills and knowledge to be embedded and built upon. Children with high levels of need have a broad curriculum offer, linking into National Curriculum themes, but with scaffolded learning which meets their needs, ensuring they are also making good progress from their initial starting points.

Impact

RSHE at Kaizen equips children with the knowledge, understanding, skills and strategies required to live healthy, safe, creative, accomplished, responsible and balanced lives. A critical component of the curriculum provides opportunities for children to reflect on and clarify their own values and attitudes in a respectful manner. It also enables them to explore the variety of values and attitudes they encounter now as children and into their later lives. 

As part of a whole-school approach, RSHE education develops the qualities and attributes pupils need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society. Also, it reduces and removes many of the barriers to learning experienced by pupils, significantly improving their capacity to learn and achieve and succeed. It also makes a significant contribution to pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development, their behaviour and safety, and to their emotional wellbeing.

Please click here to see the subject overview for RSHC.