Life Lessons
Subject Leaders
Life Lessons at Ingleby Mill
At Ingleby Mill life lessons is the term we use with our children to cover the PSHE and RHE curriculum.
Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
In school we refer to PSHE as Life Lessons. Our Life Lessons will help our children navigate life during their time at Ingleby Mill and beyond. It is important that we give them the information and tools to make informed decisions and help to steer their life journey in the right direction.
Growing up in the twenty first century is undoubtably exciting but also full of challenges and hurdles that children will need to tackle in order to move forward in life.
We believe it is important to give our children experiences that will help them develop aspirations, set personal goals and develop their individual values.
We understand the importance of this subject, it helps them to deal with daily human interactions and issues, developing a greater understanding of friendships, emotional well-being and how life can change sometimes for the better but this is not always the case.
Using the Action for Happiness – 10 keys to Happier Living model, we have created a broad set of values to explore throughout both KS1 and KS2.
This model has been created because we all want to live happy and fulfilling lives and we want the people we love to be happy too. So, happiness matters to all of us.
Happiness is about our lives as a whole: it includes the fluctuating feelings we experience everyday but also our overall satisfaction with life. It is influenced by our genes, upbringing and our external circumstances – such as our health, our work and our financial situation. But crucially it is also heavily influenced by our choices – how we approach our relationships, our personal values and our sense of purpose. All of these values are integral to our approach at Ingleby Mill.
Everyone’s path to happiness is different. Based on the latest research, Action for Happiness have identified 10 Keys to Happier Living that consistently tend to make life happier and more fulfilling. Together they spell “GREAT DREAM”.
Each half term, a different theme will be explored as a whole school with the other four being covered by different annual events.
Relating – autumn1
Emotions – autumn 2
Awareness – spring 1
Acceptance – spring 2
Resilience – summer 1
Meaning – summer 2
These keys are all covered half termly across the whole of school. The idea is to have a model which can be discussed in assemblies, siblings and friends across different year groups can discuss their learning and know that they all have the same focus for that half term.
Giving is covered when we hold charity events e.g. Children in Need, Race for life.
Exercising is an integral part of the PE curriculum and during Health and Fitness Week.
Trying out links to Bright Futures week where children are given the opportunity to learn about lots of different occupations. This is also covered when children attend Robin Wood and other extra-curricular activities that we have to offer at Ingleby Mill.
Direction is linked through our school life expectations.
More information about our Life Lessons can be found within our PSHE (Life Lessons Policy) and our PSHE (Life Lessons) curriculum page (see links below).
Relationships and Health Education
Growing up in the twenty first century is undoubtably exciting but also full of challenges and hurdles that children will need to tackle in order to move forward in life.
To embrace the challenges of creating a happy and successful adult life, pupils need knowledge that will enable them to make informed decisions about their wellbeing, health and relationships and to build their self-efficacy. Pupils can also put this knowledge into practice as they develop the capacity to make sound decisions when facing risks, challenges and complex contexts. Everyone faces difficult situations in their lives. These subjects can support young people to develop resilience, to know how and when to ask for help, and to know where to access support. High quality, evidence-based and age-appropriate teaching of these subjects can help prepare pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life. They can also enable schools to promote the spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils, at school and in society.
More information about our Life Lessons can be found within our RHE (Life Lessons Policy) and our RHE (Life Lessons) curriculum page (see links below).
