PSHE & RSE
SCARF – Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship
SCARF's whole-school approach supports primary schools in promoting positive behaviour, mental health, wellbeing, resilience and achievement – giving you everything you need to meet the Relationships Education and Health Education statutory requirements. More than just a PSHE scheme of work, SCARF supports great learning every day. SCARF represents our values for children of Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience and Friendship.
Meeting all DfE requirements for statutory Relationships and Health Education, and mapped to the PSHE Association's Programme of Study, SCARF is a framework consisting of lesson plans, online planning, assessment and Ofsted tools to give busy teachers skills and confidence to embed a comprehensive Relationships and Health Education, PSHE Education and Wellbeing programme throughout the primary years. SCARF is a whole-school approach to promoting behaviour, safety, achievement and wellbeing.
An overview of PSHE and RSHE at Lancaster Christ Church for Parents
At Lancaster Christ Church, we are proud to work with a range of partners to support the safety and wellbeing of our children through educational programmes and activities:
Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service
Each year, we welcome firefighters and specialist community fire safety staff from Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service into school to deliver the 'ChildSafe' and 'RoadSense' programmes to our Year 2 and Year 6 pupils respectively.
| ChildSafe: Year 2 | RoadSense: Year 6 |
This lesson usually lasts one hour and focuses on increasing knowledge about fire risks, how to best avoid one and awareness of what to do in the event that a fire does happen or the alarm is raised. It covers:
At the end of the lesson classroom materials will be provided and every child will be given some leaflets to take home. One of them is a Factsheet which acts like a letter home saying what your child did in the session and is designed to help parents/carers reinforce the key safety messages. | RoadSense is our Year 6 road safety package which looks at how to become a safe independent traveller. The hour long session is designed to help pupils to consider how they will travel to their new school safely and plan their route. It covers:
At the end of the lesson classroom materials will be provided and every child will be given a Factsheet to take home. This acts like a letter home saying what your child did in the session and is designed to help parents/carers reinforce the key safety messages. |
Bikability Training
Each year, we offer Bikability Training free of charge to our Year 6 pupils.
The training is provided by Go Velo and, at Level 1, helps children to:
Prepare themselves for a journey
Check the cycle is ready for a journey
Set off, pedal, slow down and stop.
Some children will progress onto Level 2 of the training, which includes learning how to:
Cycle safely and responsibly
Identify and respond to hazards
Start and stop on-road journeys
Maintain suitable riding positions
Share the road with others and communicate with other road users
Comply with signals, signs and road markings
Manage risk when cycling
Further information about Bikability can be found on the Go Velo website:
https://www.govelo.co.uk/bikeability-training/