Personal Development

The PSHCE and SRE curriculum gives students the opportunity to broaden, extend and challenge their knowledge, values and skills to prepare them for life in modern Britain, with the aim of making students productive citizens. The programme includes work to improve students’ health and emotional wellbeing. PSHCE and SRE develops students’ skills to manage relationships and be economically active and intends to give students the skills necessary to keep them safe, including keeping them safe in an ever changing virtual word.

The main strands the programme aims to promote are health and wellbeing, living in the wider world and careers, relationships and an understanding of the fundamental values of modern Britain.

The PHSCE course is arranged in the following way to ensure that age appropriate delivery is achieved to prepare students for each phase of their life and education. The SRE programme is delivered by a specialist team through drop down interventions at age appropriate times.

	Topic 1 Health and Wellbeing	Topic 2 Living in the wider world- careers	Topic 3 Relationships	Topic 4 Health and Wellbeing	Topic 4 Living in the wider world	Topic 6: British Vales and essential skills
Year 7	Transition to secondary school Road safety	Introduction to careers	Diversity and prejudice	The risks of alcohol, tobacco and other substances	Making ethical financial decisions	British values
Year 7	Safety, bullying including cyber bullying	Challenging career stereotypes and raising aspirations	Managing on- and off-line friendships	Diet, exercise and how to make healthy choices	Saving, spending and budgeting our money
Year 8	First aid and personal safety	What is an entrepreneur?	Online safety and digital literacy	Alcohol and drug misuse. Managing peer pressure	Rights and responsibilities in the community	Evaluation value for money in services
	Mental health and emotional wellbeing, including body image		Tackling racism and religious discrimination	Managing loss and change	Tackling age and disability discrimination	Risk and consequences making financial decisions
Year 9	Internet safety	Understanding different careers and future aspirations	Managing conflict at home and the dangers of running away from home	Managing peer pressure in relation to illicit substances	Prevent to include: Peer pressure, assertiveness and risk, gang crime, acid attacks	First aid, lifesaving skills
	Dieting, lifestyle balance and unhealthy coping strategies	Reflecting on learning skills	Tackling homophobia, transphobia and sexism	Assessing the risks of drug and alcohol abuse.		Friendships
Year 10	Mental health and ill health, tackling stigma	Skills for employment	Managing change, grief and bereavement	Exploring the influence of role models	Understanding the causes and effects of debt	British values, human rights and community cohesion
			Managing change, grief and bereavement	Evaluating the social and emotional risk of drugs	Understanding the risks associated with gambling	extremism and radicalisation
Year 11	Promoting self-esteem and coping with stress		Revision strategies and preparation for working life