Meet Priya: Our Longmoor Curriculum PSHE Character

Priya enjoys learning about people, their ideas and what is important to them. She enjoys learning about how to be a good friend, staying healthy, learning about how children grow and develop into adults and how to aspire to have a great job and future.

Priya encourages you to listen to the view points of others and recognises that we have to appreciate that people can have a different view point to our own.  She recognises that it is good to talk and how this can help you grow and develop.  She appreciates that mindfulness and staying healthy both physically and mentally are vitally important to keep us happy and healthy.

Jigsaw PSHE

What is PSHE Education?

PSHE Education (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education) is a planned programme of learning through which children and young people acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to successfully manage their lives – now and in the future. As part of a whole-school approach, PSHE Education develops the qualities and attributes pupils need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society.

What is Jigsaw?

At Longmoor we follow the Jigsaw PSHE scheme of work. Jigsaw PSHE is a comprehensive and completely original Scheme of Work for the whole Primary School from Foundation Stages 1 and 2 through to Year 6. It brings together PSHE Education, emotional literacy, social skills and spiritual development in a comprehensive scheme of learning.

SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural) development opportunities are mapped throughout. All of these pieces of learning are brought together to form a cohesive picture, helping children to know and value who they are and understand how they relate to other people in the world.

British Values

Jigsaw contributes, to the British Values agenda very significantly, both through the direct teaching of information and through the experiential learning children will enjoy.

The 5 strands of the British Values agenda have been mapped across every Puzzle and every Piece (lesson).

Jigsaw assemblies begin each puzzle so the whole school follow the same theme.  We are proud of the way we promote emotional well-being for all our pupils through our Jigsaw programme, which underpins the whole of our curriculum.

Puzzle 1 - Being Me In My World

Puzzle 2 - Celebrating Difference

Puzzle 3 - Dreams and Goals

Puzzle 4 - Healthy Me

Puzzle 5 - Relationships

Puzzle 6 - Changing Me

Children's Mental Health Week 2023

In February this year, Longmoor celebrated Children's Mental Health Week and the theme was 'Let's Connect'. The week also coincided with Literacy week. In every Literacy lesson during the week, the children explored a different book, which identified an emotion. These included: happiness, anger and worry. The week began with the Anti-Bullying Ambassadors introducing the theme in assemblies for KS1 and KS2. They also ran an 'Express Yourself' competition. Children were asked to draw a picture, write a poem, film themselves dancing/ singing, anything that expressed their personalities. Winners were chosen from each year group and prizes were awarded at the end of the week.