"Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think" - Christopher Robin. 

Intent

To support the children in Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) and Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) we have chosen to follow the NHS-backed My Happy Mind mindfulness scheme, in which many teachers using the scheme nationally have seen an improvement in children’s resilience and perseverance. This is a comprehensive whole school approach for PSHE including statutory Relationships and Health Education. It is a fully planned progressive scheme of work, focused on building resilience, self-esteem, and happiness in children. We have chosen this approach because it uses preventative strategies firmly rooted in science, research, and the fields of neuroscience and positive psychology. In addition to My Happy Mind, we teach the children about the Zones of Regulation throughout their school journey, how to identify what their body or mind might be feeling when they are in each of the zones (green, blue, yellow, red and orange), and which tools they might utilise to help them.

Implementation

Mental health activity is often focused on supporting individuals when they face challenges. Whilst this is critical, we believe that it is also important to support individuals in building their resilience and self-esteem proactively. My Happy Mind is split into five themes:

• Meet your brain
• Celebrate
• Appreciate
• Relate
• Engage

Children will be able to readily choose how to respond to situations rather than just react, helping them make good behaviour choices, concentrate on their work and lessen stress and anxiety. My Happy Mind complements our school Aspirations ‘I am courageous’, ‘I am responsible’, ‘I am respectful’, ‘I try my best’, and ‘I am kind’, that are taught and woven into our school lives.

We believe that effective RSE is essential to enable our children to make responsible and well-informed decisions about their lives. These lessons are not delivered in isolation but are firmly rooted in our PSHE curriculum through My Happy Mind. The aim of RSE is to help and support children through their physical, emotional and moral development.

The children are supported to develop the vocabulary and confidence needed to clearly articulate their thoughts and feelings in a climate of openness, trust and respect, and know when and how they can seek support from others. They develop and apply their understanding to their interactions with each other, small groups, the whole class and to the wider community of which they are a part.

My Happy Mind is a whole school approach, with all year groups working on the same theme at the same time. These themes each cover a half-term of work. Each key stage teaches lessons in an age appropriate way so that they meet the children's needs.

There is a clear progression of social, moral and cultural understanding across the school. Each lesson is taught as a whole class. An important feature of My Happy Mind is to ensure that all children are taught as a class in a calm, safe environment and each session follows the same structure. During My Happy Mind sessions, all children are encouraged to speak freely in front of the class group, encouraging clear communication. Respect and tolerance of others is expected and children are given time to reflect on their learning and themselves as people.

Other school initiatives that support the development of PSHE include:

• Anti-bullying week 
• NSPCC; Speak Out Stay Safe
• Children's Mental Health Week
• Internet safety 
• Clever Never Goes - stranger danger
• Aspirations assemblies
• School Council
• Playground Buddies
• Sports festivals
• Helping hands
• Using mindfulness journals
• Utilising breathing exercises

Impact

The impact of our PSHE teaching is evident in school life as a whole - in the children's behaviour, their attitudes to learning and their respect and care and understanding for and of each other. It is evaluated through monitoring change and development of behaviour, assessing strands of PSED in the Early Years Foundation Stage and assessing the themes of the My Happy Mind curriculum in Key Stage 1.

The expected impact of our PSHE / RSE curriculum is that children will:

• Feel happy and confident in and out of school.
• Be able to access tools from their own toolkits to help themselves.
• Show an increased resilience and ability to persevere when facing challenges.

This is our Jigsaw Charter. We use our Charter in all of our Jigsaw lessons, to ensure that each child has a voice and the right to give their own opinions as well as a chance to listen to others