Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of the children in our care (SMSC) is of fundamental importance at Hunloke Park Primary school. We promote SMSC development through our whole school ethos and values and wider curriculum threads. However, it is probably most apparent in our teaching of religious education and life skills. It is a statutory requirement for all schools to teach the relationship, sex and health education component of the curriculum.
Life Skills
PSHE Matters, the whole school ethos including our values of PRIDE (positivity, responsibility, inclusion, determination and enjoyment) ; curriculum drivers of diversity, community, independence and possibilities; a planned calendar of events and assemblies, visits, speakers and special focus days enables Hunloke Park Primary School (HPPS) to put in place the key building blocks of healthy, respectful relationships, focusing on family and friendships, in all contexts, including online. This sits alongside the essential understanding of how to be healthy, both physically and mentally.
We deliver a coherent and progressive learning experience for children. We want our children to make informed choices about the risks they face in life. Through RSHE education we help pupils to develop skills like – teamwork, communication, and positive behaviours like resilience – that are crucial to navigating the challenges and opportunities of the modern world and are increasingly valued by employers.
Religious Education
The study of religious and non-religious worldviews is a core component of a rounded education. Young people today are growing up in a world where there is increasing awareness of the diversity of religious and non-religious worldviews and they will need to live and work well with people with very different outlooks from their own.
In religious education at Hunloke Park Primary School, sessions provide a safe space where students can discuss different religious and non-religious beliefs and develop a mutual respect and tolerance for all people.
We follow the RE syllabus for Derbyshire and Derby City; this syllabus aims to:
– Encourage children to explore questions of spirituality, identity, ethics discrimination and prejudice.
– To enable children to progressively build religious literacy and conceptual understanding of what it means to be a person of faith or no faith.
– Encourages our children to articulate their own experiences of religion, belief and spirituality.
– Facilitates pupils to engage critically with ideas and understanding of religion and belief systems.
– Promotes interactive, creative and experiential learning that promotes social and ethnic accord alongside the endorsement of fundamental British Values.
Our curriculum is enriched with visits to a variety of religious places of worship and speakers of different religious and non-religious denominations are invited into our school.