At Sunnyside Academy School, we deliver a high-quality PSHE/RSE curriculum (using EC Publishing Scheme) which inspires pupils to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to manage life’s challenges and make the most of life’s opportunities. The curriculum enables pupils to be healthy, safe, independent and responsible members of society who demonstrate respect and tolerance and who are prepared to face and manage the challenges and opportunities of an ever-changing modern Britain.

• Help pupils to aspire to be the best they can be, to have dreams for their future and know what is required to reach them.
• Provide opportunities for our pupils to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to
• Be a valuable member of an ever-changing diverse society. We will help them to understand and consider many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up in modern Britain.
• Deepen our pupils’ understanding of the fundamental British values of democracy, individual liberty, the rule of law and mutual respect and tolerance
• Develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.
• Stimulate, challenge and nurture pupils’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural curiosity.
• Help pupils to understand the importance of their physical and mental health, understand emotions and feelings and have strategies to help them become resilient and confident so they are ready for the transition to secondary school.
• Help pupils to have a good understanding of themselves, to have empathy, an ability to work with others and to form and maintain positive relationships treating everyone equally with tolerance and respect.
• Teach our pupils’ age-appropriate understanding of healthy relationships through appropriate relationship and sex education.
• Teach our pupils about personal safety (online and offline) and we will ensure pupils know where and how to get help if needed.

Encourage all of our pupils to be the best version of themselves that they can be!

This also supports the “Personal Development” and “Behaviour and Attitude” aspects required under the Ofsted Inspection Framework, as well as significantly contributing to the school’s Safeguarding and Equality Duties, the Government’s British Values agenda and the SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social, Cultural) development opportunities provided for our pupils.  Links to British Values and SMSC are made throughout the progression document.