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Our school helps us to walk with Jesus, to be the best that we can be.  Through God’s love and guidance, we create an ethos of shared endeavour, friendship and co-operation to help us flourish academically, emotionally and spiritually.

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13

PSHE Intent at Baxenden St John’s

At Baxenden St John’s, the physical and emotional wellbeing of our children is a priority. Our PSHE curriculum is taught in a variety of ways through our school ethos, whole school assemblies, Religious Education lessons and our PSHE scheme of work. Our curriculum aims to help children understand how they are developing personally and socially which helps them to tackle social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. We aim to encourage our children to develop their self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.

PSHE takes place weekly in each class and is carefully planned to involve a range of activities including circle times, stories, games and drama.

RSE Letter to Parents Sept 26Download
PSHE Policy Sept 2026Download
PSHE curriculum map 2026Download

Diversity in PSHE

As part of our work on developing Equality at Baxenden, we have been working towards achieving the Lancashire Equality Mark. The Lancashire Equality Mark is awarded to schools who have taken measures to embed Equality throughout their practice with the goal of enabling all pupils to thrive in a supportive learning community. It has been developed by a working group in Lancashire and provides a clear framework to guide schools through the process of auditing, developing and consolidating good practice in different areas of Equality. The Equality Mark is comprised of six individual Equality Badges:

 Race Equality Badge

 Gender and Gender Variance Equality Badge

 Disability Equality Badge

 Socio-economic Equality Badge

 Sexual Orientation Equality Badge

 Religion and Belief Equality Badge

Please click on the link below to visit this page on our website to find out more!

Baxenden Equality Group
  • UK Parliament Week November 2025 – Y5
    We enjoyed a visit from our local MP and learning about how our democratic process works. We investigated the main UK parties and produced fact…
  • Feelings Role Play – Y5
    Year 5 role play their feelings as part of our SCARF curriculum
  • Christmas Charity
    Rebecca in our Y6 class has made us all extreamly proud! Last summer, she had a stall at our summer fair in church where she…
  • Remembrance Parade 2024
    Mrs Williams would like to thank all the hymn singers from the school choir who gave up their free time in school over the past…
  • Science Week – March 2024
    National Science Week has all been about ‘Time’. With this in mind we have been thinking about our future careers. We had lots of visitors…
  • Santa Claus Baxenden Visit! – 18/12/23
  • ‘Got Your Ticket’ to Japan? September 2023
    The God Squad has grown so large that we’ve had to have two groups every Thursday. The Y5 & 6 children meet with Joyce (and…
  • Disability Worship – 10/10/23
    Inspired by Harry’s worship about his cerebral palsy, the Equality Group wrote, made and led a whole school worship, to raise awareness of what different…
  • Gardening Club
    It’s the end of Autumn term 1, and our gardening club have finished planting up the pots outside of school and harvesting our tomatoes. Thank…
  • Guardian Angels
    During the summer term, each Year 6 child is paired up with one of our new reception starters, and once a week for the autumn…