Personal, Social, Health & Citizenship Education (PSHCE)
The PSHCE curriculum – following national curriculum guidance – aims for all students to become:
- Successful learners who enjoy learning, making progress and achieving.
- Confident individuals who are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives.
- Responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society.
PSHCE forms a part of the core curriculum accessed by all students throughout years 7 – 11.
Core Themes
- Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability bringing together careers education, work-related learning and financial capability.
- Personal Wellbeing makes a significant contribution to a student’s personal development and character. It creates a focus on the social and emotional aspects of effective learning, such as self-awareness, managing feelings, motivation, empathy and social skills.
- Citizenship Education helps to develop social and moral responsibility, community involvement and political literacy.
Students receive one 50 minute lesson each week. The curriculum is broadly based, balanced and meets the needs of all students, promoting their spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development.
Lessons are enhanced by the involvement of external agencies that specialise in key areas of the curriculum including Personal Finance, Personal Health and Safety, Drugs Education, Relationships and Parenting Education. The core themes are revisited throughout Key stages 3 and 4 as part of our spiralling curriculum and students are given regular opportunities to develop and consolidate their knowledge.
Citizenship
‘Active Citizenship’ is encouraged across the whole school, with students’ actively participating and recording citizenship activities in their personal planners that will inform their Personal Statements in year 11. Citizenship is embedded within the PSHCE curriculum in years 7, 8 and 9 and students are involved in self evaluation of their progress across the range of topics studied. Teacher assessment based on students’ performance across Key Stage 3 are recorded each year and formally reported to parents/ guardians as an End of Key stage level in year 9.
Homework
Homework is not generally set for PSHCE although there is encouragement of maintaining an awareness of current news and global incidents concerning citizenship, and personal health issues.
The PSHCE curriculum – following national curriculum guidance – aims for all students to become:
- Successful learners who enjoy learning, making progress and achieving.
- Confident individuals who are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives.
- Responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society.
Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education (PSHCE)
Non-examination core subject.
Autumn Term
Introduction to the 5 ways to Well-Being
School Structure
Settling in to a new school
Railway Safety
Road safety as a pedestrian and passenger
What makes a good friend
Anti Bullying Week
Relationships and Sex Education: Puberty, Changes in Boys/Girls, The Underwear Rule and Personal Hygiene
Spring Term
Diversity in our community
Drugs Education: Smoking, Volatile substances and Alcohol
Safer Internet Day
Economic Education
National Careers Week
National Apprenticeship Week
Summer Term
How to prepare for exams
The Sleep Factor
Stress from Social Media and Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO)
Mental Health Awareness Week
Oral Hygiene
First Aid – Basic First Aid, Recovery Position, CPR
Autumn Term
Diversity in the UK –and Ethnic Stereotyping
The United Nations (UN)
The European Union (EU) & Brexit
The United Nations Convention the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
Anti Bullying Week
Understanding feelings
Reacting to emotional situations
Family
Spring Term
Drugs Education: Legal and Illegal drugs, Social and Emotional effects, Cannabis, Managing situations
National Careers Week
National Apprenticeship Week
Economic Education
Relationships and Sex Education: Healthy Relationships, The Underwear Rule, Menstrual Cycle
Summer Term
Conception
Contraception
Pregnancy Myths
Mental Health Awareness Week
The Sleep Factor
Stress from Social Media and Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO)
Homelessness
In Year 9 and upward, the PSHCE and Religious Studies lessons are combined to form PR lessons.
These lessons are delivered by the PSHCE/PR team. Each student will have one 50 minute curriculum lesson per week (outlined below), delivered by the PSHCE teaching team and two registration sessions per week, delivered by Form Tutors.
Autumn Term
Belief about Deity:
– The 4 Os
– Reasons for belief in God
– The Cosmos Argument
– The Design Argument
– What is a Miracle?
Good and Evil:
– Natural and Moral Evil
– The Problem of Evil
Equality:
– Gender Discrimination
– Prejudice and discrimination
– Martin Luther King
– The Civil Rights Movement
– Racism and Forgiveness
– Identity – LGBTQ+
Spring Term
Racism:
– Key Events in Race Relations in the UK
– Race Relations
– Respecting Rights – FGM
– The State of Race Relations in the UK Today
Safer Internet Day
Politics:
– What is Democracy?
– Political Parties in the UK
– How does Parliament work?
– Electoral Systems
– Manifesto
– Party Political Broadcasts
Summer Term
Relationships and Sex Education:
– Introduction to relationships
– Marriage/Civil Partnerships
– Abusive Relationships
– Consent
– Delay – Are you ready?
– Sexually Transmitted infections
– Contraception
– Pregnancy
Child Sexual Exploitation:
– Exploitation
– Grooming
– Sexting
– Sexualisation
In Year 9 and upward, the PSHCE and Religious Studies lessons are combined to form PR lessons.
These lessons are delivered by the PSHCE/PR team. Each student will have one 50 minute curriculum lesson per week, delivered by the PSHCE teaching team and two registration sessions per week (outlined below), delivered by Form Tutors.
Autumn Term
5 ways to Well-being
Law and Society:
– Life on a dessert island
– The need for rules in communities
– Anti-social behaviour
– Anti Bullying week
Spring Term
Careers research
Safer Internet Day
National Careers Week
National Apprenticeship Week
The message of Easter
Summer Term
The Sleep Factor
Stress from Social Media and Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)
Mental Health Awareness Week
Economic Education
In Year 10, the PSHCE and Religious Studies lessons are combined to form PR lessons.
These lessons are delivered by the PSHCE/PR team. Each student will have one 50 minute curriculum lesson per week (outlined below), delivered by the PSHCE teaching team and two registration sessions per week, delivered by Form Tutors.
Autumn
Morality:
– What is morality?
– Moral responsibility
– Personal Safety as a pedestrian and passenger in a vehicle
Careers Education:
– Making informed choices
– Employment Law
– Equal Opportunities
– Careers research
Relationships and Sex Education:
– Relationships – heterosexual and LGBTQ+
– Attitudes to relationships and expectations
– Sexually Transmitted Infections
Is Religion dangerous?
– Dangers of religion
– Terrorism
– War
Spring
During the Spring and Summer terms, students will study one 4 week module of each of the following:
Abusive relationships:
– What is Domestic Violence?
– Identifying controlling behaviours
– Why people stay
– How to help yourself and others
Homelessness:
– Causes
– Stereotypes
– Lisa’s story
– Support
Drugs Education:
– Consequences of drugs use
– Alcohol
– Sexual health and drugs use
Summer
Work Experience preparation:
– How to make a good impression
– Making the most of the experience
– Benefits of a placement
– Writing to your employer
– Log book
– Reflection on work experience
– Completion of work experience statement for Progress Files
– Thank you letter to employer
In Year 10, the PSHCE and Religious Studies lessons are combined to form PR lessons.
These lessons are delivered by the PSHCE/PR team. Each student will have one 50 minute curriculum lesson per week, delivered by the PSHCE teaching team and two registration sessions per week (outlined below), delivered by Form Tutors.
Autumn
Prepare to succeed:
– The key to success
– Study behaviours
– Study skills
– Assessments and tests – how to approach them
Resilience
Anti-bullying week
Summer
Elections and voting
– Parliament and government
– UK legal system
– How laws are made in the UK
Safer Internet Day
National Careers Week
National Apprenticeship Week
Summer
Religion in the Global Media
Mental Health Awareness Week
The Sleep Factor
Stress from Social Media and Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)
In Year 11, the PSHCE and Religious Studies lessons are combined to form PR lessons.
These lessons are delivered by the PSHCE/PR team. Each student will have one 50 minute curriculum lesson per week (outlined below), delivered by the PSHCE teaching team and two registration sessions per week, delivered by Form Tutors.
Autumn
Progress Files:
– Work Experience statement
– Completing a CV
– Personal statement
– Progression Plan
Women in Religion:
– Biblical teachings
– The attitude of the Sikh religion to women
– For and against female rabbis
Christmas and it’s meaning
Summer
Human Rights – Rwanda Genocide
Beliefs and concepts:
– What do religions say?
– Islam and Christianity
Environmentalism:
– Problems facing the environment.
– Ways of preserving and protecting the environment
– Religious responses to environmental problems; Christianity and Buddhism
Relationships and Sex Education:
– Relationships – expectations, values
– Breast Cancer – signs and symptoms
– Cervical Cancer – signs and symptoms
Animal Rights:
– Issues regarding animal rights
Summer
Animal Rights:
– Christian beliefs about animal rights
– Protest and pressure groups supporting animal rights
In Year 11, the PSHCE and Religious Studies lessons are combined to form PR lessons.
These lessons are delivered by the PSHCE/PR team. Each student will have one 50 minute curriculum lesson per week, delivered by the PSHCE teaching team and two registration sessions per week (outlined below), delivered by Form Tutors.
Autumn
Economic Education:
– Life choices
– Bank accounts
– Bank statements
Continuing Education:
– Future Choices
– Use of Unifrog
– Sixth Form applications
Anti-bullying week
Spring
Careers research
Safer Internet Day
National Careers Week
National Apprenticeship Week
MPs, local and Regional Government, International Relationships
Summer
The Sleep Factor
Stress from Social Media and Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)
Mental Health Awareness Week