Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) (not examined)

Overview

Introduction

During Years 10 and 11 our PSHE curriculum focuses on both our statutory requirements (compulsory for all schools from September 2020) and requirements to ensure students are taught to understand fully and appreciate our core British values.

Course leader

Mr C Skinner

Curriculum

Course content

The wide-ranging curriculum will ensure that students learn about a range of topics that will help to guarantee their ability to keep safe online while ensuring that they can fully engage with the opportunities that such technologies bring. Furthermore, students will explore relationships and reflect carefully on how you should be treated and how you should treat others.

Our curriculum teaches students about their own welfare (both physical and mental) and how to protect these, while highlighting how and where to seek support. In both years, students reflect on careers and understand how their present learning impacts on their futures, and how school can open new opportunities for the future. Students also learn about issues such as democracy, migration and human rights.

The key stage 4 curriculum builds on our key stage 3 curriculum and offers a greater insight into key areas such as financial planning and post-16 preparations.

Topics

Careers, Relationships and Sex Education, Financial Awareness, British Values and Post 16 Preparation.

Skills and requirements

Skills required

You will develop an appreciation of British Values, with a focus on Democracy, Respect, Tolerance, the Rule of Law and Liberty. This will ensure that you have the skills to be able to identify your own values and understand where they sit within British Values. Furthermore, you shall have the oracy skills required to explain diverse viewpoints. You will also develop the skills required to be able to fully understand the possibilities that our society provides, alongside a deep appreciation of the personal responsibilities that both safeguard and develop it. A further skill developed in the PSHE classroom is the ability to demonstrate a healthy attitude to your own learning and the wider school community. You shall develop the confidence to explain your own opinions and values within the classroom, while respecting the opinions and values of others. Additionally, you will develop the skill sets required to empower you to make ‘good’ choices on a wide range of situations encountered (be these within education, outside of school or in your future lives). The curriculum therefore provides you with the opportunity to further develop your emotional and social skills, including (but not limited to) empathy, communication and conflict resolution, while ensuring that you have the knowledge and skills required to make excellent choices around food and diet, exercise, metal and physical health, managing risk and ensuring you are kept safe. These skills sets are essential both while at school and while you progress into the adult world.