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.
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.
Years 7 and 8
In Years 7 and 8, 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.
Years 9, 10 and 11
PSHCE is combined with Religious Education in Years 9, 10 and 11 to form the ‘PR’ Curriculum, creating a cross-curricular course. Students will cover the majority of content from both courses within a weekly 50 minute lesson. The remaining provision is taught during form time with delivery coming from form tutors.
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
British Values
Relationships and Sex Education:
– Puberty
– Changes in Boys/Girls
– The Underwear Rule
– Personal Hygiene
Spring Term
Diversity in our community
Drugs Education:
– Smoking
– Volatile substances
– Alcohol
Safer Internet Day
National Careers Week
National Apprenticeship Week
How to prepare for exams
The Sleep Factor
Stress from Social Media and Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO)
National Careers Week
Summer Term
Economic Education
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 United Nations Convention the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
British Values
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
Safer Internet Day
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
Homelessness
In Year 9 and upward, the PSHCE and Religious Studies lessons are combined to form the PR Curriculum.
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 15 minute registration sessions per week, delivered by Form Tutors.
The Personal, Social, Health Citizenship and Education curriculum has three strands — health & wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world.
This is a spiralling curriculum with strands re-visited each year allowing for students to build on and extend their knowledge through the use of age appropriate materials and resources.
Specialist speakers are used to enhance the curriculum across a range of topics.
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
Personal Safety:
Knife Crime
Equality:
Gender Discrimination
Prejudice and discrimination
Martin Luther King
The Civil Rights Movement
Racism and Forgiveness
Spring Term
Equality:
Identity – LGBTQ+
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 the PR Curriculum.
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 15 minute registration sessions per week (outlined below), delivered by Form Tutors.
The Personal, Social, Health Citizenship and Education curriculum has three strands — health & wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world.
This is a spiralling curriculum with strands re-visited each year allowing for students to build on and extend their knowledge through the use of age appropriate materials and resources.
Specialist speakers are used to enhance the curriculum across a range of topics.
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
Parents’ Evening Preparation
Spring Term
Careers research
Safer Internet Day
National Careers Week
National Apprenticeship Week
The message of Easter
My Money Week
Summer Term
Mental Health Awareness Week
Economic Education
In Year 10 and upward, the PSHCE and Religious Studies lessons are combined to form the PR Curriculum.
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 15 minute registration sessions per week, delivered by Form Tutors.
The Personal, Social, Health Citizenship and Education curriculum has three strands — health & wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world.
This is a spiralling curriculum with strands re-visited each year allowing for students to build on and extend their knowledge through the use of age appropriate materials and resources.
Specialist speakers are used to enhance the curriculum across a range of topics.
Autumn
Morality:
What is morality?
Moral responsibility
Personal Safety
On the roads as a pedestrian and passenger in a vehicle
Knife Crime
Careers Education:
Making informed choices
Employment Law
Equal Opportunities
Careers research
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 and upward, the PSHCE and Religious Studies lessons are combined to form the PR Curriculum.
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 15 minute registration sessions per week (outlined below), delivered by Form Tutors.
The Personal, Social, Health Citizenship and Education curriculum has three strands — health & wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world.
This is a spiralling curriculum with strands re-visited each year allowing for students to build on and extend their knowledge through the use of age appropriate materials and resources.
Specialist speakers are used to enhance the curriculum across a range of topics.
Autumn
Prepare to succeed:
The key to success
Study behaviours
Study skills
Assessments and tests – how to approach them
Religion in the Global Media
Anti-bullying week
Summer
Citizenship:
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
Resilience
What is it?
How can we build more resilience?
Mind over matter
Revision
In Year 11 and upward, the PSHCE and Religious Studies lessons are combined to form the PR Curriculum.
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 15 minute registration sessions per week, delivered by Form Tutors.
The Personal, Social, Health Citizenship and Education curriculum has three strands — health & wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world.
This is a spiralling curriculum with strands re-visited each year allowing for students to build on and extend their knowledge through the use of age appropriate materials and resources.
Specialist speakers are used to enhance the curriculum across a range of topics.
Autumn
Progress Files:
Work Experience statement
Completing a CV
Progression Plan
Relationships, Sex and Health Education:
Relationships – expectations, values
Breast Cancer – signs and symptoms
Cervical Cancer – signs and symptoms
Transition from Key Stage 4 to Key Stage 5
Human Rights – Rwanda Genocide
Spring
Progress Files:
Personal statement
Beliefs and concepts:
What do religions say?
Islam and Christianity
Women in Religion:
The Ministry
Women and equality
Inspirational women
Animal Rights:
Christian beliefs about animal rights
Protest and pressure groups supporting animal rights
Autumn
5 ways to Well-being
Economic Education:
Life choices
Bank accounts
Bank statements
Continuing Education:
Future Choices
Use of Unifrog
Sixth Form applications
Anti-bullying week
Environmentalism:
Problems facing the environment.
Ways of preserving and protecting the environment
Religious responses to environmental problems; Christianity and Buddhism
Spring
Careers research
Safer Internet Day
National Careers Week
National Apprenticeship Week
Citizenship:
MPs, local and Regional Government, International Relationships