At The Upper Nidderdale Primary Federation, we believe that is of great importance to teach our pupils about subjects such as finances, careers, and enterprise to help to prepare them for adult life by giving them the knowledge and confidence to make informed decisions about money, employment, and business opportunities.
Key areas include:
- Financial education: Understanding budgeting, saving, banking, taxes, borrowing, credit, and the importance of making informed financial decisions. This is covered in PSHE and RSE lessons throughout the year, as well as through visitors such as NatWest Bank. They come into school to deliver workshops on managing finances. Financial wellbeing is taught alongside this.
- Careers education: PSHE units taught through the PSHE curriculum include: Exploring different career pathways, identifying personal strengths and interests, learning about qualifications and training, and developing employability skills such as communication, teamwork, and problem-solving. To support this, we hold a 'Careers Fair' each year where we invite members of the community into school to talk to pupils about their jobs and the paths that brought them there.
- Enterprise education: We feel that by encouraging creativity, innovation, leadership, and entrepreneurship we are helping pupils understand how businesses operate, identify opportunities, and develop ideas into projects or ventures. To put bring these lessons to life, we hold an annual enterprise initiative called 'The Fiver Challenge.' Pupils complete a loan form and get a loan of £5 from school. They use this to research, create, plan and run their own business. Through this they are introduced to enterprise and enhance key skills such creativity, problem solving, teamwork and confidence.
- Relationships, Health and Sex Education (see Intent) is timetabled and taught weekly to all classes. The curriculum is planned sequentially and the statutory objectives are mapped out across all year groups. Assessments and adaptions are used to ensure that all pupils have opportunities to learn, recall and consolidate key concepts that will support them to understand about healthy boundaries and consent , as well as helping children to form healthy and respectful relationships.
- We promote mental wellbeing by teaching My Happy Mind lessons that are timetables weekly and taught sequentially throughout the year. Pupils have the opportunity throughout the day to have a 'check-in' with a trusted adult if there is something that they want to talk about.
- We promote Fundamental British Values though the curriculum, and also through the use of visitors such as The Ann Frank Foundation who have recently delivered workshops on Racism, Islamophobia and the importance of promoting equality.
- We support pupils to keep themselves safe with the use of visitors to develop lifelong safe habits such as road safety (Lauren Doherty) and water safety (RNLI).
