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 |
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 |
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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 |
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| 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 | ||||