Personal Development
Our school aims to:
- Provide high-quality pastoral support
- Provide a wide range of opportunities to nurture, develop and stretch pupils’ talents and interests. Pupils appreciate these and make good use of them
- Prepare pupils for life in modern Britain effectively, developing their understanding of the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, tolerance and respect
- Promote equality of opportunity and diversity effectively
- Provide pupils with meaningful opportunities to understand how to be responsible, respectful, active citizens who contribute positively to society
- Enhance pupils' SMSC development
Peterchurch Primary School teaches personal development in a wide range of ways throughout the children’s school lives. For example:
School-wide policy and practice
- An inclusive environment
- Adults act as role models
- Behaviour Policy based around five key values: respect, responsibility, kindness, pride, determination
Enrichment opportunities
- A good range of after-school clubs e.g., dance, creative writing, coding, sport, arts and craft, choir, ukulele, gardening
- 1:1 drumming, ukulele and guitar lessons
- Competitive intra-school sporting events (2021-22 Hockey, Football, Girls Football, Netball)
- Daily Mile
- Inter-House sports day
- Local hikes
- Forest School
- Run 4 Life
- Basic First Aid
- Science week
- Money Week
- European Day
- Y6 residential to Kilvough (Geography, Science, social skills, team building links)
- Years 4 and 5 outdoor adventurous activities at Trewern (Y4 climbing and archery and gorge walking Y5 as Y4 canoeing on river Wye)
- World Book Day
- Safer Internet Day
- Exploring your world day (nurse, mindfullness, farming, cooking)
- Hay Festival – reading/literature
- Curriculum visits (e.g. Ash class to local caves/fossils)
- Comic Relief and Children in Need
Assemblies
- Online safety
- British values
- Diversity
- School values
- Celebration of pupil achievements
Opportunities to perform
- Music performance assemblies
- YR and Y1 Nativity
- Year 6 play
- Services in the church: Harvest, Christmas, Easter
Leadership roles for pupils
- Pupil School Improvement Team
- Eco Council
- Prefects
- Librarians
- Play Leaders
- House Captains
Visitors to the school
- Reverend Simon and Jane Hirst from the local church
- PSCO Pete Knight
- SCARF Online workshops
- Forest School
- First Aid
- Specialist music teacher
- Curriculum visitors (vary from year to year e.g. 2022: History workshops; Japan visitor, Hidden Herefordshire, Joe Wicks – promoting an active lifestyle, Hayhurst architects – designing a new school)
- School nurse
- NSPCC live online assemblies
A comprehensive PSHE Curriculum
The school has a powerful combination of a planned thematic PSHE program, built around a spiral curriculum of recurring themes, designed to:
- Give pupils the knowledge and develop the self-esteem, confidence and self-awareness to make informed choices and decisions;
- Encourage and support the development of social skills and social awareness;
- Enable pupils to make sense of their own personal and social experiences;
- Promote responsible attitudes towards the maintenance of good physical and mental health, supported by a safe and healthy lifestyle;
- Enable effective interpersonal relationships and develop a caring attitude towards others;
- Encourage a caring attitude towards and responsibility for the environment;
- Help our pupils understand and manage their feelings, build resilience and be independent, curious problem solvers;
- Understand how society works and the laws, rights and responsibilities involved.
See PSHE page for more details