Welcome to the PSHE area of our website!

The subject leader for PSHE at St James' is Miss Bryan and our Well-being coordinator is Mrs Jacques.

Our Christian Vision for PSHE:   

Within the PSHE curriculum we encourage each other to acquire knowledge, skills and understanding to manage our lives in order to make confident, healthy and independent life choices; to express emotions and feelings, to question in a fair and non judgemental way, to develop resilience and self belief and using our Christian values to be the best version of ourselves. 

We are mindful of our Christian values and SKATs as our spiritual journey goes hand in hand with our personal and social journey throughout our lives. During our time at St James’ together, we follow  the guidance and teachings of God with the expectation that our pupils prosper in life making independent choices to live life to the full.

PSHE @ St James'

Our weekly PSHE lessons at St James aim to help our children make healthy choices. We do this by teaching engaging, memorable age-appropriate lessons on a range of issues such as relationships, health, well-being and drugs.  We start off the school year in all classes focusing on 'Me and My Relationships'. 

2025/2026

Children's Mental Health Week

We have been marking Children’s Mental Health Week at St James', which this year has the theme “This is My Place”, focusing on belonging — feeling safe, valued, included and comfortable being ourselves. Belonging can come from many places, such as our families, friends, school, hobbies, communities and the things we enjoy doing.

Our fantastic Peer Mentors supported this learning by visiting classes across school to help deliver the lesson and talk about what belonging means.

Every child then created their own “belonging map”, drawing and adding symbols to represent the places where they feel they belong — from home and school to clubs, friendships and favourite activities.

We are proud of how our children continue to support one another to make St James' a place where everyone feels they belong.

Healthy Eating @ ST James'

Our fantastic Peer Mentors met with Miss Tindall to share the results of their research into healthy eating and packed lunches . They confidently presented their findings and spoke brilliantly about the importance of making healthy choices every day

The group have developed a clear action plan to help make a positive impact across our school community . As part of this, they will be creating an eye-catching poster to share with all parents and carers , as well as delivering an assembly to educate their peers about healthier lunchbox options . Their poster will also be included in our revised Healthy Eating Policy .

Miss Tindall was incredibly impressed with the depth of their research, their thoughtful discussions and their brilliant ideas for promoting healthy habits . We are so proud of the maturity, teamwork and dedication they have shown

Well done, Peer Mentors - you are making a real difference!

World Mental Health Day 🌟

Our Peer Mentors led a special Worship all about World Mental Health Day.

💭 The main messages they shared were:

Taking care of your mind is just as important as taking care of your body.

You are never alone – there is always someone who will listen and help.

The Peer Mentors reminded everyone that about Hello Yellow Day 💛 – a chance to show support for mental health awareness by adding some yellow to our school uniform.

We are really proud of our Peer Mentors for leading this Worship and helping us all to remember how important it is to look after our wellbeing. 🌈✨

2024/25

Hello Yellow Day 

Thursday 10th October 2024

Our Peer Mentors recorded a video to help spread the message about how important our mental health is and things we can do to support our mental health.

Click on the image below to watch our Peer Mentors with their important message this Hello Yellow Day.

Coram Life Education Visit

Monday 28th October and Tuesday 29th October 2024

Coram Life Education came into school to deliver workshops to each class.

PSHE Learning @ St James'

We record our learning in our class PSHE Scrapbooks.

Here's a snippet of our recordings for each half term.