The Broader Curriculum
Health > Economic well being > Sex education
Cross Curricular themes are studied by all children at set times each year and cover:
- Health Education (including Safety Education)
- Citizenship
- Environmental Education
St. George’s Primary School is an extended school which provides a range of services and activities often beyond the school day to help meet the needs of its pupils, their families and the wider community.
Educational trips and residential visits (in Years 4, 5 & 6) form an important part of the curriculum and support and enhance studies in school.
Sailing At St. George’s Primary School every Year Six pupil will receive the unique opportunity to go sailing during the Summer Term and achieve the RYA Qualification Stage 1 and 2.
As Weymouth & Portland will be hosting the sailing for the 2012 Olympics, the new sailing Academy will provide the perfect facility for experience.
Being Healthy
The new School can meet this need by:
- Developing a robust Healthy Schools programme & achieve “Healthy Schools Status (H.S. status) by 2008.
- Ensuring that all students participate in a broad, balanced and varied programme of quality physical education
- Promoting healthy eating through the schools’ fruit & veg scheme
- Promoting a healthy work-life balance for children and adults Staying Safe
The new school can meet this need by:
- Employing a range of staff with different skills and expertise
- Creating an ethos and atmosphere where violence or bullying will be seen by everyone as unacceptable
- Ensuring the road safety issues around the school are taken on board
- Developing an up to date School Travel Plan
Enjoyment & Achievement
The new school can meet this need by:
- Providing a high quality, flexible and personalised curriculum for all students
- Providing a high quality learning environment
- Enhanced curriculum enrichment and extra-curricular opportunities
- Attainment for all the highest possible level
- Making a positive contribution
The new school can meet this need by:
- Providing opportunities for students to take on responsibility in school e.g. peer mentoring (we already have this in operation), monitors/prefects
- Providing opportunities for students to have a say in how the school is run e.g. through the School Council
- Providing opportunities for students to take part in community service activities
- Establishing links and joint activities with pyramid and partner schools and the wider community.
Achieving economic well-being
The new school can meet this need by:
- The promotion of positive attitudes
- Developing an Inclusive ethos
Sex Education
Sex and Relationships Education is an aspect of our personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) programme which is followed by children in Key Stage 2, and takes the form of a brief course set in the context of family life. We are assisted by the School Nurse in the delivery of the course.
Parents have the right to withdraw their children from Sex Education if they so wish, by notifying the Headteacher in writing.