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Valley Gardens Middle School

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  • Our school
    • Welcome
    • About Us
    • International Dimension
    • Information
      • Our Vision
      • Public Calendar
      • Governing Body
      • Admissions
      • School Prospectus
      • Important Policies
      • Achievements
      • Term Dates
      • Uniform
      • PE and Sport Premium
      • Public Sector Duty
      • Financial Information
      • Remote Learning
      • Personal Development at Valley Gardens Middle School
      • Young Carers
    • Core Values
      • Kindness
      • Resilience
      • Respect
    • British Values
    • SEN & Disability
    • Pastoral Structure
    • Ofsted Report
    • Pupil Premium
    • Staff
    • Performance Tables
    • School Council
    • Careers
    • Contact us
  • Curriculum
  • Safeguarding
    • Safeguarding
    • Digital Safeguarding
    • Report a safeguarding concern
    • Mental Health Support Pathway
    • Lockdown, evacuation and invacuation
    • Signposting & Resources
  • Extra Curricular
    • Clubs Timetable
    • School Trips
  • Parents
    • Events
    • Charity
    • Sustainable Travel
      • Travel Plan
      • Go Smarter For Parents
      • VGMS Go Smarter Map
    • Letters Home
    • Breakfast and After School Care
    • Year 4 Transition
    • Attendance and Absence
    • Homework
    • Rewards and Sanctions
    • School Day
    • School Meals
    • Term Dates
    • Useful Forms
    • Behaviour
  • Vacancies
  • Reading at VGM
    • Reading at Valley Gardens
    • Key Stage 2
    • Key Stage 3
    • Phonics Strategy
    • VGMS Reading Strategy Overview
  • Important Policies
Valley Gardens Middle School Logo
  • Our school
    • Welcome
    • About Us
    • International Dimension
    • Information
      • Our Vision
      • Public Calendar
      • Governing Body
      • Admissions
      • School Prospectus
      • Important Policies
      • Achievements
      • Term Dates
      • Uniform
      • PE and Sport Premium
      • Public Sector Duty
      • Financial Information
      • Remote Learning
      • Personal Development at Valley Gardens Middle School
      • Young Carers
    • Core Values
      • Kindness
      • Resilience
      • Respect
    • British Values
    • SEN & Disability
    • Pastoral Structure
    • Ofsted Report
    • Pupil Premium
    • Staff
    • Performance Tables
    • School Council
    • Careers
    • Contact us
  • Curriculum
  • Safeguarding
    • Safeguarding
    • Digital Safeguarding
    • Report a safeguarding concern
    • Mental Health Support Pathway
    • Lockdown, evacuation and invacuation
    • Signposting & Resources
  • Extra Curricular
    • Clubs Timetable
    • School Trips
  • Parents
    • Events
    • Charity
    • Sustainable Travel
      • Travel Plan
      • Go Smarter For Parents
      • VGMS Go Smarter Map
    • Letters Home
    • Breakfast and After School Care
    • Year 4 Transition
    • Attendance and Absence
    • Homework
    • Rewards and Sanctions
    • School Day
    • School Meals
    • Term Dates
    • Useful Forms
    • Behaviour
  • Vacancies
  • Reading at VGM
    • Reading at Valley Gardens
    • Key Stage 2
    • Key Stage 3
    • Phonics Strategy
    • VGMS Reading Strategy Overview
  • Important Policies
Valley Gardens Middle School Logo
  • Our school
    • Welcome
    • About Us
    • International Dimension
    • Information
      • Our Vision
      • Public Calendar
      • Governing Body
      • Admissions
      • School Prospectus
      • Important Policies
      • Achievements
      • Term Dates
      • Uniform
      • PE and Sport Premium
      • Public Sector Duty
      • Financial Information
      • Remote Learning
      • Personal Development at Valley Gardens Middle School
      • Young Carers
    • Core Values
      • Kindness
      • Resilience
      • Respect
    • British Values
    • SEN & Disability
    • Pastoral Structure
    • Ofsted Report
    • Pupil Premium
    • Staff
    • Performance Tables
    • School Council
    • Careers
    • Contact us
  • Curriculum
  • Safeguarding
    • Safeguarding
    • Digital Safeguarding
    • Report a safeguarding concern
    • Mental Health Support Pathway
    • Lockdown, evacuation and invacuation
    • Signposting & Resources
  • Extra Curricular
    • Clubs Timetable
    • School Trips
  • Parents
    • Events
    • Charity
    • Sustainable Travel
      • Travel Plan
      • Go Smarter For Parents
      • VGMS Go Smarter Map
    • Letters Home
    • Breakfast and After School Care
    • Year 4 Transition
    • Attendance and Absence
    • Homework
    • Rewards and Sanctions
    • School Day
    • School Meals
    • Term Dates
    • Useful Forms
    • Behaviour
  • Vacancies
  • Reading at VGM
    • Reading at Valley Gardens
    • Key Stage 2
    • Key Stage 3
    • Phonics Strategy
    • VGMS Reading Strategy Overview
  • Important Policies

Year 6

CURRICULUM AREAS
  • Design Technology
  • Drama
  • PSHE
    • Relationship, Sex and Health Education
    • Year 5
    • Year 6
    • Year 7
    • Year 8
  • Project Based Learning
  • Art & Design
  • Science
  • Religious Education
  • Physical Education
  • Music
    • Extra-Curricular Music Activities
    • Instrumental Lessons
    • Music News
    • Concert Programmes
    • Singing
    • Music Development Plans
  • Modern Foreign Languages
  • Computing
  • History
  • Geography
  • English
  • Mathematics
    • Calculation Policy
    • Exemplification of NC Objectives
    • Mathematics Instructional Videos
  • Assessment
  • Metacognition
  • Oracy

Key Stage 2

During Year 5 and 6, PSHE education offers both explicit and implicit learning opportunities and experiences which reflect pupils’ increasing independence and physical and social awareness. Through close liaison with PSHE leads from our Whitley Bay First Schools, our spiral curriculum ensures  that we build on the skills that pupils started to acquire in Year 3 and 4. In Upper Key Stage 2, we also prepare pupils to cope with the changes at puberty, introduces them to a wider world and enables them to make an active contribution to their communities. 

The PSHE curriculum at Valley Gardens is inclusive of the objectives in the new statutory guidance for Relationships Education and Health Education (September 2020).

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education

 

 

Year 6 Health and Wellbeing: Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing

Mental health and ways to take care of it; managing changes; loss and bereavement; managing time online

Relationships: Respecting Ourselves and Others

Expressing opinions and respecting other points of view, including discussing topical issues

Living in the Wider World: Belonging to a Community

Valuing diversity; challenging discrimination and stereotypes

 

 

Health and Wellbeing: Keeping Safe

Keeping personal information safe; regulations and choices; drug use and the law; drug use and the media

Relationships: Family and Friendships

Attraction to others; romantic relationships; civil partnerships and marriage

Living in the Wider World: Media Literacy and Digital Resilience

Evaluating media sources; sharing things online

 

Relationships: Safe Relationships

Recognising and managing pressure; consent in different situations

Health and Wellbeing: Growing and Changing

Physical and Emotional Changes in puberty; increasing independence; managing change; responsibilities of being a parent or carer

Living in the Wider World: Money and Work

Influences and attitudes to money; money and financial risks

CURRICULUM AREAS

  • Design Technology
  • Drama
  • PSHE
    • Relationship, Sex and Health Education
    • Year 5
    • Year 6
    • Year 7
    • Year 8
  • Project Based Learning
  • Art & Design
  • Science
  • Religious Education
  • Physical Education
  • Music
  • Modern Foreign Languages
  • Computing
  • History
  • Geography
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Assessment
  • Metacognition
  • Oracy

School Address

Valley Gardens Middle School

Valley Gardens

Whitley Bay

NE25 9AQ

Contact Info

0191 9176667

[email protected]

Core Values – Kindness, Resilience, Respect
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