Personal Development offer at Henleaze Junior School

Our Personal Development offer is multi-faceted.  The core offer is a carefully sequenced PSHE and RSHE curriculum. This is supplemented through our planned safeguarding and behaviour curriculum and further enriched by our co-curricular and enrichment offer which outlines the wider opportunities all our children access as they move through our school.  We are committed to making sure our offer is inclusive, giving careful consideration to potential barriers some pupils may encounter.

We carefully consider opportunities built into the curriculum to promote children's understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion, In addition we aim to promote the development of character through our behaviour curriculum and by promoting our school values of ‘Respect, Community, Curiosity, Ambition’ which, in turn, develop the children's understanding of British Values and citizenship.  The combination of all these elements supports a broad offer to promote Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development.

PSHE and RSE

• At Henleaze Schools we use Kapow, which is a sequenced and progressive curriculum. 
• Our PSHE curriculum is supplemented with lessons that are important for our community including Safer Internet Day, anti-bullying week and assemblies that celebrate the beliefs and faiths of our community.   
• At Henleaze Schools, RSE is taught under the Family and Relationships and Safety and the Changing Body units in our Kapow curriculum.

Safeguarding curriculum 

• The school is committed to supporting and educating children across a range of safeguarding matters, as well as supporting issues specifically related to the local context. We seek opportunities in the taught curriculum for children to learn about safeguarding and have mapped out a safeguarding curriculum for each year group that compliments our PSHE curriculum. 
• Our assemblies across the year are carefully mapped out to ensure that we are proactively teaching the children about key safeguarding topics but we also use assemblies to respond to any issues that may arise either in school or in the local community.

Behaviour curriculum 

In order for us to ensure that all our pupils can thrive, we insist that all staff show they care by having relentlessly high expectations of behaviour for all pupils. 
To help our pupils succeed, we have clearly mapped out what our behavioural expectations are and we teach these expectations to the children. This is called our behaviour curriculum. Henleaze Schools Behaviour Curriculum 2024/25 .docx

Leadership opportunities 

We have:

A school council

Eco Council

Team Captains

Infant Lunchtime Buddies

Playground Buddies

Further responsibilities available for Y6 include: media monitors for assembly, recycling monitors, setting up assembly seating and helping clear up after lunch

Co-Curricular/Enrichment

Our co-curricular offer is designed to enrich the taught curriculum and to supplement it with experiences we feel are important for children from our school community. This aim is for our children to experience a range of opportunities to build cultural capital and promote their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development in a coherent, planned and deliberate way. 

Sports

Shine Sports Coaches enrich every lunchtime with a range of planned activities.  Qualified sports coaches also support our PE curriculum, teaching one lesson per week in each class.  Across the year, we take part in community sports events hosted by Shine, our trust school partners and some inter-school competitions run by other schools across the city.

Music

Children in each year group have lots of opportunities to sing and perform. As well as singing assembly each week, each year group performs to an audience once in the year.   We offer musical instrument tuition through tutors from Bristol Beacon during the school day, as well as guitar and piano lessons. Year 4 all  learn how to play the ukulele.

We run choir and orchestra clubs, providing performance opportunities at our Music Evening, Henleaze Christmas Fair, our Christmas Bazaar and assemblies during the year.

School Council

Learning about how democracies work, candidates present their proposals to their class and each class votes for a school council member and a deputy to represent their views at School Council meetings, to discuss school improvement and to share pupil viewpoint with teachers.

Eco Committee

Children can put themselves forward for a class vote to be an Eco Committee Rep. Children in this group have helped us to think about sustainability and what we can do as a school to be more sustainable, including ideas to significantly reduce the use of single use plastic in our school.

Trips and Residentials

Regular visits to a variety of different venues are planned during the school year.  Examples include: Castles, theatres and  museums.

Children in Year 5 participate in a residential trip over two nights to the Dean Field Centre in the Forest of Dean.

Children in Year 6 participate in a residential trip over four nights to Kilve Court, on the coast near Bridgwater.

Theatre Companies

We all have the opportunity to watch a performance each year performed by one of the local touring theatre companies.

The Great Henleaze Egg Race

The children of Henleaze Junior School have been building and racing eggmobiles since 2004. It is one of the highlights of the school year.

Children build their eggmobiles at home and bring them in to compete in the Eggotorium at the end of the spring term. The event takes the whole morning, and prize giving happens in the afternoon.

We challenge you to create something wonderful, something whacky, something fast, or something adventurous by way of a vehicle that will carry a hard boiled egg, just as far as a hard boiled egg can go!

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