Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education

A core component of your child's personal development at Aughton St Michael's, is their learning in Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE)

At our school, we teach PSHE with the Happymind Plus programme and resources.  It's vision is to ensure every child develops the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to thrive, not only inschool but in life. As a whole school programme grounded in science and dedicated to building positive mental wellbeing, MyHappymind helps children understand how their brains work and creates a culture that helps to build children's resilience, confidence, and self-esteem. MyHappymind also teaches the children how to self-regulate and manage their emotions in stressful times, allowing them to be their very best selves!  The MyHappymind modules are:

-Meet Your Brain: Understanding how your brain works and how to ensure we look after it so that; we can manage our emotions and be at our best. Growth mindset is a key part of this too.
- Celebrate: Understanding your unique Character Strengths and learning to celebrate them. This is a fantastic module for building self-esteem.
- Appreciate: Understanding why gratitude matters and how you can develop gratitude as a habit.
- Gratitude is key to well-being and resilience and we're all about making it a lifelong strategy!
- Relate: Understanding why positive relationships matter and how to build them. We're focussed on the building blocks of good relationships and friendships.
- Engage: Understanding how to set meaningful goals that matter and how to stay resilient in times of challenge. This module is all about building self-esteem and resilience too.

Learn more here: https://myhappymind.org/

Through a carefully planned and progressive curriculum, the aim is to:

• Build pupils’ confidence, resilience, and empathy;
• Equip them with strategies to manage their wellbeing andrelationships;
• Prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiencesof modern life
• Meet and exceed PHSE teaching requiremtents in school.

Finding Out More

Your child’s PSHE curriculum can be found  on your child’s Class Curriculum Overview.  To support parents and carers further, if you haven't already done so, you can download the myhappymind app here https://myhappymind.lpages.co/myhappymind-parent-app-introduction/ 

If you would like to discuss any aspect of this topic or require any further information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me.

Miss McCormack

PSHE Co-ordinator 

Tel: 01695 423295

Email: bursar@aughton-st-michaels.lancs.sch.uk