RSE

At St Oswald's, we are committed to supporting every child’s personal development, wellbeing and lifelong learning. We use the SCARF programme (Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience and Friendship), provided by Coram Life Education, to deliver high-quality Relationships, Health and PSHE education across the school.

SCARF gives us a whole-school approach to wellbeing and mental health, supporting children to develop the knowledge, skills and values they need to thrive. The scheme is fully aligned with statutory DfE requirements for Relationships and Health Education, as well as the PSHE Association’s Programme of Study.

Overview of SCARF themes

For each year group, there are six suggested themed units which provide a complete PSHE and wellbeing curriculum. They are:

Me and My Relationships

Explores feelings and emotions, develops skills to manage conflict, helps identify our special people and equips children to recognise the qualities of healthy friendships and how to manage them.

Valuing Difference

Includes a strong focus on British Values, supports children to develop respectful relationships with others, recognise bullying and know their responsibilities as a bystander.

Keeping Myself Safe

Covers a number of safety aspects from statutory Relationships Education including being able to identify trusted adults in their lives, what to do when faced with a dilemma and recognising appropriate and inappropriate touch. 

Rights and Responsibilities

Explores broader topics including looking after the environment, economic education and the changing rights and responsibilities children have as they grow older.

Being My Best

Includes a focus on keeping physically healthy, developing a growth mindset to facilitate resiliency, setting goals and ways to achieve them.

Growing and Changing

Has age-appropriate plans to cover the physical and emotional changes that happen as children as they grow older, including changes at puberty and how to approach this with confidence. Age-appropriate lessons on relationships and sex education are also included.

Children also enjoy visits from Healthy Harold the giraffe and his friends, who help make learning memorable, fun and engaging.