The PSHE curriculum is designed around the following pillars:
• Keeping safe and health/fitness
• Online life and media
• Emotional and mental health
• Future choices
• Finance
• Personal skills
• Values, rights and responsibilities
• Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE)
As part of our PSHE approach, RSHE topics are delivered by subject specialists.
Students cover a range of topics throughout year 7 including the following:
• Social media as a positive influence
• Online grooming
• Growth mindset
• Verbal bullying
• Knife crime and gang culture
• Tobacco, vaping and cannabis
• Careers
• Accepting responsibility
• Misogyny and sexism
• Challenging stereotypes
• Learning from mistakes
• Self confidence and self esteem
• Managing money
• Teamwork
• Confidence building in group work
• First aid and CPR
• Sign language
• Consent and respectful relationships
• Body Image
Students cover a range of topics throughout year 8 including the following:
• Positive uses of social media
• What does the internet know about me?
• Online bullying
• Knife crime and gang culture
• Recreation drug use
• Careers
• Misogyny
• Challenging unfair cultural expectations
• What affects mental health
• Anxiety and depression
• Financial exploitation
• What skills are employers looking for?
• Gambling
• Emergency first aid
• Active listening
• Promoting inclusion in the community
• Staying safe and youth produced sexual imagery
• Sexual Health and Fertility
Students cover a range of topics throughout year 9 including the following:
Different online behaviour
Careers
Sleep and relaxation
Substance misuse
Developing resilience
Illegal employment and modern day slavery
Hate crime
Isolation and mental health
Bullying and abusive behaviour
Being in financial debt
Being a young entrepreneur
Managing money worries
Working part time - rights and responsibilities
Revision skills
Female genital mutilation
Forced marriage
Intimate and sexual relationships, including sexual health
Contraception - includes a practical session whereby students will be given the opportunity to practise putting a condom on a condom demonstrator
Students cover a range of topics throughout year 10 and 11 including the following:
Stress anxiety and depression
Helping a friend to cope with mental health
The warning signs and triggers of mental health
Preparing for change - GCSE's and beyond
Careers - communication etiquette
Careers - interviews
Careers - CV writing and personal statements
Cancer prevention
Why some people choose a life of crime
Freedom of expression
• Equality
• Should social media have more regulation?
• Managing online profiles for future employment
• Finance - managing money and borrowing
• The changing job market
• Addiction and gambling
• Resilience
• Study skills
• The dangers of pornography
• Attitudes towards sex and sexual relationships and tackling misconceptions
