Curriculum Overview:
PSHE will provide pupils with the knowledge, understanding, attitudes, values and skills they need to reach their potential as individuals and within the community. Pupils are encouraged to take part in a wide range of activities and experiences across and beyond the curriculum, contributing fully to the life of their school and communities. In doing so, they learn to recognise their own worth, work well with others and become increasingly responsible for their own learning. They reflect on their experiences and understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling many of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. They learn to understand British Values and respect our common humanity; diversity and differences so that they can go on to form the effective, fulfilling relationships that are an essential part of life and learning.
Key Skills and Dispositions:
Being Me in My World: Includes understanding self-identity, cultural diversity, society and social groups, political influences, and independence
Celebrating Difference: Includes anti-bullying (cyber and homophobic bullying included) and diversity, through the nine protected characteristics
My Dreams and Goals: Includes goal-setting, aspirations, working together, recovering from set-backs, SMART planning, choices, and responsibilities
A Healthy Me: Includes mental and physical health, drugs and alcohol education, self-esteem and confidence, as well as healthy lifestyle choices, sleep, and the brain
Relationships: Includes understanding friendship, family and other relationships, conflict resolution and communication skills, assertiveness, consent, and sexual health
Changing Me: Includes Relationships and Sex Education in the context of looking at change in all aspects of life, transition, behaviour change, mental health and brain development
Key Themes:
- Being me in my world
- Celebrating difference
- My dreams and goals
- A Healthy me
- Relationships
- Changing me