Personal Development
Assemblies
We use Picture News assemblies to allow opportunities for children to learn about our world. Teaching the news not only provides great content and stimulus and grips children’s attention, it is also something that the children can impact. It is current, happening now and so their voice is given meaning and purpose.
No Outsiders
At The Federation of Bedenham and Holbrook Primary Schools, we believe in the importance of equality and everybody having the same opportunities. This is modelled by our staff and taught through lessons and other experiences both discretely and explicitly. One of the subjects that this is taught through is the subject of Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education.
As part of our PSHE curriculum, we follow a scheme called No Outsiders. No Outsiders has three core values:
- Respect for diversity through education in schools;
- Commitment to community cohesion through understanding and acceptance of difference;
- Promotion of dialogue to counter fear and hate in society.
No Outsiders involves the use of age appropriate story books to teach about seven of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010.
Click here for the No Outsiders Guide for Parents.
Living Difference IV
Living Difference IV is the Agreed Syllabus for Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton. This is the legal document to be followed for the teaching of religious education in Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton and Isle of Wight Local Authority schools.
Living Difference IV offers a set of principles for teachers to make their curriculum to ensure religious education is open to the plurality of ways in which people live in our local, national and international communities.
It describes an approach for teaching, seeking to explain the educational value not only of children engaging with new material intellectually, but also of them becoming better able to discern what is desirable for their own lives, and with others, for the world.
Click on the image below to download Living Difference IV.
Relationship, Sex and Health Education (RSHE)
Please click here for our Relationship and Sex Education Policy
Equality Information and Objectives Policy
Please click here for our Equality information and Objectives Policy which contains our Equality Objectives Action Plan 2023-25