Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE)

Subject Head: Karen Brathwaite

Contact: kbrathwaite@farmors.gloucs.sch.uk

Overview

PSHE education at Farmor’s helps students to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society and to prepare them for life and work in modern Britain.

It covers a wide range of topics and allows them to discuss strategies to support them in making responsible decisions in life which range from alcohol to succeeding in their first job, PSHE education helps students to manage many of the most critical opportunities, challenges, and responsibilities they will face growing up.

Students are taught the PSHE curriculum in key stage 3 and 4 using a spiral approach so that they can build and develop their knowledge and understanding in an age appropriate way.

	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
	Health & wellbeing	Living in the wider world	Relationships	Health & wellbeing	Relationships	Living in the wider world
Year 7	Transition and safety	Diversity	Developing skills and aspirations	Health and puberty	Building relationships	Financial decision making
	Transition to secondary school and personal safety in and outside school, including first aid	Diversity, prejudice, and bullying	Careers, teamwork and enterprise skills, and raising aspirations	Healthy routines, influences on health, puberty, unwanted contact, and FGM	Self-worth, romance and friendships (including online) and relationship boundaries	Saving, borrowing, budgeting and making financial choices
Year 8	Drugs and alcohol	Community and careers	Discrimination **	Emotional wellbeing	Identity and relationships **	Digital literacy
	Alcohol and drug misuse and pressures relating to drug use	Equality of opportunity in careers and life choices, and different types and patterns of work	Discrimination in all its forms, including: racism, religious discrimination, disability, discrimination, sexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia	Mental health and emotional wellbeing, including body image and coping strategies	Gender identity, sexual orientation, consent, ‘sexting’, and an introduction to contraception	Online safety, digital literacy, media reliability, and gambling hooks
Year 9	Peer influence, substance use and gangs	Setting goals	Respectful relationships	Healthy lifestyle	Intimate relationships **	Employability skills
	Healthy and unhealthy friendships, assertiveness, substance misuse, and gang exploitation	Learning strengths, career options and goal setting as part of the GCSE options process	Families and parenting, healthy relationships, conflict resolution, and relationship changes	Diet, exercise, lifestyle balance and healthy choices, and first aid	Relationships and sex education including consent, contraception, the risks of STIs, and attitudes to pornography	Employability and online presence
Year 10	Mental health	Financial decision making	Exploring influence	Families	Addressing extremism and radicalisation	Work experience
	Mental health and ill health, stigma, safeguarding health, including during periods of transition or change	The impact of financial decisions, debt, gambling and the impact of advertising on financial choices	The influence and impact of drugs, gangs, role models and the media	Different families and parental responsibilities, pregnancy, marriage and forced marriage and changing relationships	Communities, belonging and challenging extremism	Preparation for and evaluation of work experience and readiness for work
Year 11	Building for the future	Next steps	Communication in relationships **	Independence	Healthy relationships **
	Self-efficacy, stress management, and future opportunities	Application processes, and skills for further education, employment and career progression	Personal values, assertive communication (including in relation to contraception and sexual health), relationship challenges and abuse	Responsible health choices, and safety in independent contexts	Relationships and sex expectations, myths, pleasure and challenges, including the impact of the media and pornography

The curriculum for RSE is set out by government Relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and can be accessed using the link. At the beginning of each academic year the content of the curriculum will be reviewed in line with the government requirements and adapted. There are no fixed timings of when the topics need to be taught throughout the year because there are many factors which need to be considered when delivering sensitive topics. I work closely with the Heads of Year and tutors to determine the needs of the students each term which means that sometimes topics may be taught in a different order. For example, COVID made it very difficult to teach some of these more sensitive topics such as ‘substance misuse’ in Year 8 and therefore it was moved to term 5. **in these lessons, the students will be taught Sex Education (defined in our policy as ‘learning about the physical, social, legal and emotional aspects of human sexuality and behaviour, including human reproduction. This includes conception and contraception, safer sex, sexually transmitted infections and sexual health’).

The above information is intended to give parents an overview of the key themes that will be delivered in each year group.

Should you require more detail about the taught content, please contact kbrathwaite@farmors.gloucs.sch.uk

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