At Meltham Moor we follow the SCARF scheme of work, which is built around the core values of Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, and Friendship. SCARF provides a comprehensive, spiral curriculum that promotes children’s wellbeing, personal development, and understanding of the wider world.

Across the year, pupils develop the knowledge, skills, and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy, safe, and prepared for life and work. Lessons are grouped into six key themes:

1. Me and My Relationships – Developing self-awareness, managing emotions, building positive relationships, and understanding respect and diversity.

2. Valuing Difference – Promoting inclusion, empathy, and understanding of equality and diversity in all forms.

3. Keeping Safe – Learning how to make safe choices, recognise risk, and understand consent and personal boundaries.

4. Rights and Respect – Exploring citizenship, community roles, and environmental responsibility.

5. Being My Best – Encouraging self-belief, goal setting, healthy habits, and personal achievement.

6. Growing and Changing – Understanding physical and emotional changes, personal identity, and transitions through puberty and adolescence.

We follow the comprehensive and progressive SCARF scheme of work, which covers six key themes: Me and My Relationships, Valuing Difference, Keeping Myself Safe, Rights and Responsibilities, Being My Best, and Growing and Changing. Lessons are taught weekly through engaging, age-appropriate activities such as stories, discussions, games and reflection. Learning about consent and personal boundaries is introduced early and revisited sensitively throughout the key stages, ensuring children understand that everyone has the right to feel safe, respected and heard. To enrich and extend learning, we also use Pol-Ed resources, which deepen pupils’ understanding of real-world issues like democracy, equality and community values.

PSHE lessons are taught on a weekly basis and are taught by the same adult each week, this is either the class teacher or the PPA cover teacher. As a school we believe that it is important that PSHE lessons are delivered by the same teacher each week, as they can build strong and positive relationships with the children. This is vital as some of the PSHE content can be sensitive, lessons being taught by the same teacher ensures children feel safe and secure during these lessons.

Whilst the EYFS and National Curriculum forms the foundation of our curriculum, we make sure that children learn additional skills, knowledge and understanding and enhance our curriculum as and when necessary. PSHE ed. is embedded into the whole ethos and sprit of Meltham Moor Primary School. It is embedded throughout the school year as part of assemblies, through whole school activities such as sponsored events, charity events and celebration days and extra-curricular activities such as the school council and play leaders.

Through our PSHE curriculum, children develop the confidence and skills to build healthy relationships, manage emotions and make responsible decisions. They understand the importance of consent, respect and empathy in all interactions, both in person and online. Pupil voice, class discussions and reflective activities demonstrate that pupils can apply what they learn to everyday situations. As a result, children leave Meltham Moor with strong emotional and social foundations, ready to face new challenges with confidence, compassion and respect for themselves and others.