At St David's Church in Wales Primary School, we understand the need for everyone in our school to have a healthy lifestyle. This helps pupils and staff to do their best and build on their achievements. We actively promote physical and emotional health, and aim to equip pupils with the understanding and skills they need to make informed decisions about their health, both now and in the future. By championing healthy eating, healthy lifestyles and emotional health and well-being, we are aiming to continue to raise standards and improve levels of pupil achievement.  We are always encouraging our pupils to be fit and healthy. As well as PE and PSD lessons we hope the following information is useful. As always, if you have any questions then please come and speak with a member of staff. 

What is Jigsaw, the mindful approach to Health and Well-being, and how does it work?

Jigsaw is a whole-school approach and embodies a positive philosophy and creative teaching and learning activities to nurture children’s development as compassionate and well-rounded human beings as well as building their capacity to learn. Jigsaw is a comprehensive and completely original PSE programme for the whole primary school from ages 3-11.  The Jigsaw Programme also delivers Relationships and Sexuality Education. Ensuring it meets the requirements set out in the RSE Code for Phases 1 and 2. Life cycles and human reproduction will be taught in a sensitive manner, age related in all schools in Wales. This means that all learners must receive this education. There is no right to withdraw from RSE in the new curriculum.

Jigsaw has two main aims for all children:

• To build their capacity for learning
• To equip them for life

Jigsaw brings together PSE, Relationships and Sexuality Education, emotional literacy, mindfulness, social skills and spiritual development. It is designed to support a whole school approach, with all year groups working on the same theme (Puzzle) at the same time at their own stage of learning. There are six Puzzles (half-term units of work) and each year group is taught one lesson per week. All lessons are delivered in an age- and stage-appropriate way so that they meet children’s needs.

Relationships and Sexuality Education

The Curriculum for Wales is now statutory requirement since September 2022 for all schools in Wales. It has a key role to play in helping children and young people navigate the world safely. Welsh Government wants education to help our children to develop as healthy, confident individuals, ready for the next chapter in their life after school. Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) encompasses the knowledge, skills, dispositions and values that will empower learners to:

• support their health and well-being
• develop healthy, safe and fulfilling relationships of all kinds, including those with family and friends, and in time, romantic and sexual relationships
• navigate and make sense of how relationships, sex, gender and sexuality shape their own and other people’s identities and lives
• understand and support their rights and those of others to enjoy equitable, safe, healthy and fulfilling relationships throughout their lives.

The Curriculum for Wales – Relationships and Sexuality
Education Code

Relationships and identity

This strand focuses on:

• the range of relationships that human beings have throughout their lives 
• how identity can be shaped by our relationships and sexuality
• the importance of human rights in securing healthy, safe and fulfilling relationships in an inclusive society.

Sexual health and well-being

This strand focuses on:

• learning about how living things grow, reproduce and have a life cycle
• developing an understanding of the human body, including people’s feelings about their bodies and how these can be represented
• the health issues related to relationships and sexuality
• an understanding of how sexuality and sexual health affects our well-being.

Empowerment, safety and respect

This strand focuses on:

• learners’ rights to safety and protection and freedom from harm and discrimination  
• how and where to seek information, help and support
• how to support and advocate for the rights, fair treatment and respect of all.

Growth Mindset

At St David's Primary School, we know that pupils who have a positive attitude towards their learning will make good progress and be successful. We want all our pupils to relish challenges, embrace their mistakes as part of the learning process, value the importance of effort, respond carefully to feedback and take inspiration from others. When pupils believe they can get smarter, they understand that effort makes them stronger. Therefore they put in extra time and effort, and that leads to higher achievement.This will help them to achieve, not only with us, but also in their future lives as adults.

• We celebrate making mistakes – we can learn from them;
• We never give up – perseverance is the key if we are to succeed;
• We learn from each other;
• We don’t compare ourselves with others;
• We challenge ourselves and take risks;
• We remember that our brains are making new connections and growing all the time.

For more information on how to encourage your child to be confident and resilient, click on the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUWn_TJTrnU

• Healthy Lunchboxes
  Please follow the link for information on Healthy Lunchboxes

• NHS Choices