PSCHE

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All students will have a 1 x PSCHE lesson every week during tutor time. The PSCHE curriculum includes Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) and personal, social, citizenship and health education (psche) Education. The RSE and PSHE curricula are also delivered through a combination of bespoke curriculum enhancement days and assemblies.

Year 7 - Themes

Health & Wellbeing: Transition and Safety
  • Transition to secondary school and personal safety in and outside school including first aid
  • FIRST GIVE PROJECT
Living in the Wider World: Developing Skills and Aspirations
  • Careers, teamwork and enterprise skills, and raising aspirations
  • FIRST GIVE PROJECT
Relationships: Diversity
  • Diversity, prejudice, and bullying
Health & Wellbeing: Health and Puberty

  • Healthy routines, influences on health,  puberty, unwanted contact and FGM

Relationships: Building 
  • Relationships
  • Resilience. Self-worth, romance and friendships (including online) and relationship boundaries
Living in the Wider World: Financial Decision Making
  • Saving, borrowing, budgeting and making financial choices

Year 8 - Themes

Health & Wellbeing: Drugs & Alcohol

  • Alcohol and drug misuse and pressures relating to drug use

Living in the Wider World: Community & Careers

  • Equality of opportunity in careers and life choices, and different types and patterns of work

Relationships: Discrimination

  • Discrimination in all its forms, including: racism, religious discrimination, disability, discrimination, sexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia

Health & Wellbeing: Emotional Wellbeing

  • Resilience. Mental health and emotional wellbeing, including body image and coping strategies

Relationships: Identity and relationships

  • Gender identity, sexual orientation, consent, ‘sexting’, and an introduction to contraception

Living in the Wider World: Digital literacy

  • Online safety, digital literacy, media reliability, and gambling hooks

Year 9 Themes

Health & Wellbeing: Peer influence, substance use and gangs

  • Drugs and alcohol, substance misuse and gang exploitation

Living in the Wider World: Setting goals

  • Resilience. Learning strengths, career options and goal setting as part of the GCSE options process

Relationships: Respectful relationships

  • Families and parenting, healthy relationships, conflict resolution, and relationship changes

Health & Wellbeing: Healthy Lifestyle

  • Diet, exercise, lifestyle balance and healthy choices and first aid 

Relationships: Intimate relationships

  • Relationships and sex education including consent, contraception, the risks of STIs, and attitudes to pornography

Living in the wider world: Employability skills

  • Employability and online presence

Year 10 Themes

Health & Wellbeing: Mental health

  • Resilience. Mental health and ill health, stigma,safeguarding health, including during periods of transition or change

Living in the Wider World: Financial decision-making

  • The impact of financial decisions, debt, gambling and the impact of advertising on financial 

choices

Relationships: Healthy relationships

  • Relationships and sex expectations, myths, pleasure and challenges, including the impact of the media and pornography

Living in the wider world: Work experience

  • Preparation for and evaluation of work experience and readiness for work

Relationships: Addressing extremism & radicalisation

  • Communities, belonging and challenging extremism 

Health & Wellbeing: Exploring influence

  • The influence and impact of drugs, gangs, role models and the media

Year 11 Themes

Health & Wellbeing: Motivation, perseverance and resilience

  • Building for the future. Self-efficacy, stress management, and future opportunities

Living in the Wider World: Next steps

  • Application processes, and skills for further education, employment and career progression

Relationships: Communication in relationships

  • Personal values, assertive communication (including in relation to contraception and sexual health), relationship challenges.

Health and Wellbeing: Independence

  • Responsible health choices, and safety in independent contexts

Relationships: Families

  • Different families and parental responsibilities, pregnancy, marriage and forced marriage and changing relationships

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