At Stanley Grove, our PSHE curriculum is designed to teach children essential “life lessons” that prepare them for the wider world. We follow the Pol-Ed scheme throughout school, a high-quality, research-informed programme created in partnership with police and education experts.

Pol-Ed equips children with the knowledge, skills and personal qualities they need to make healthy, informed and safe choices in their daily lives. Its content is regularly updated using local and national police crime data, allowing us to respond quickly to emerging issues and keep our teaching relevant.

Our curriculum is structured around four key concepts, taught progressively as children move through school. British values are embedded throughout the Pol-Ed resources, and the effective promotion of equality and diversity is a golden thread that runs through all aspects of the programme. These lessons prepare children for life in the modern world, helping them to understand their place within society and make positive, responsible choices. Prevent education is built into the resources, supporting children to recognise risk, stay safe and develop resilience. While Pol-Ed covers the majority of the citizenship curriculum, topics such as democracy and climate change are explored through wider school opportunities and across other subject areas.

Assemblies

At Stanley Grove, assemblies support our PSHE curriculum by reinforcing the values and learning traits that shape our school community. Through stories, discussion and reflection, children explore qualities such as kindness and empathy, courage and compassion, belonging and identity, responsibility and determination, resilience, self-belief, self-reflection and gratitude.

Assemblies encourage pupils to consider how these traits are shown in their own lives at home and school and to recognise and celebrate them in others. This shared focus helps to develop confident, caring and reflective learners.