PSHE
Curriculum Aim
Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) is a planned, developmental programme of learning designed to help learners develop the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to manage their lives, now and in the future. It deals with real life issues which affect Children and Young People (CYP), their families and their communities, and engages with the social and economic realities of their lives, experiences and attitudes.
PSHE encourages CYP to be enterprising and supports them in making effective transitions, positive learning and career choices and in managing their finances effectively. It also enables CYP to reflect on and clarify their own values and attitudes, and explore the complex and sometimes conflicting range of values and attitudes they encounter now and in the future.
Context
At Chapel House, PSHE lessons are delivered weekly. A CYP’s level of knowledge and understanding will be assessed in an informal way, to allow their starting point to be built upon. As CYP join our setting throughout the academic year, our spiral curriculum allows for concepts such as healthy relationships, staying safe online and personal safety to be revisited in different contexts.
Staff use ‘distancing techniques’ such as creating a class agreement, and discussing scenarios, to make PSHE lessons comfortable and accessible for all CYP.
Key concepts, skills and knowledge
PSHE education addresses both CYP’s current experiences and preparation for their future. Three core themes run throughout our spiral curriculum; Health & well-being, Living in the wider world and Relationships. Parents and carers often reflect that PSHE covers ‘all the things we wish we were taught at school’.
Health and Wellbeing
This theme includes progressive understanding of how to keep yourself and others safe in different contexts, an understanding of substance misuse and addictions, wellbeing strategies and an understanding of mental health. We also ensure CYP have a solid understanding of puberty and the changing adolescent body, menstruation and pregnancy. The importance of hygiene routines, vaccinations and staying healthy, including cancer awareness.
Relationships
This theme explores connections in wider society; community diversity, discrimination, and extremism. We also learn about interpersonal relationships, including respectful friendships, romantic relationships and how to spot the signs of abuse. CYP reflect on the impact that the media has on expectations in relationships and managing these in reality.
Living in the Wider World
Here we explore life in modern Britain, the law and how these are made, and how CYP can make a difference to society now and in the future. We consider financial decision-making and budgeting. Our careers lessons also fall into this theme, where a progressive program supports our CYP to make informed decisions about their future education and career options.
Whilst they are specifically addressed where appropriate, assessing and managing life online are integrated throughout all three core themes.
Across Kingfisher Academy, PSHE is the curriculum subject where statutory Relationships, Sex and Health education (RSE) is taught. For more information, please view our RSE policy.
Curriculum Overview
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