Aims of Course
Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) at Key Stage 3 is designed to help our students to lead confident, healthy and responsible lives both as individuals and members of society.
Students will gain practical knowledge and skills to help them live healthily and deal with the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues they face as they approach adulthood.
It is designed to develop the students’ well-being and self esteem, encouraging belief in their ability to succeed and enabling them to take responsibility for learning and future choices of courses and career. PSHE builds on students’ own experience and on work at Key Stage 1 and 2 and complements Citizenship and the school’s career and work related programme.
Organisation
During the school year six morning sessions of the timetable will be ‘collapsed’ and used to deliver PSHE, Citizenship, Work Related Learning and Careers Programme. In addition to this aspects of the above will be covered within different subject areas, such as Religious Education, Science, English, Food Technology, PE, Drama, Geography and History.
Assessment
Personal, Social and Health Education does not require, at present, formal assessment but the staff delivering the course and learning will be able to offer feedback on progress during consultation evenings.
Homework/Independent Study
Occasionally students will be required to complete tasks that will add to their learning and understanding of certain topics.
How Parents/Carers can help
- Students will be helped enormously by you discussing the topics covered as well as asking about the activities and information given on the ‘collapsed days’.
- Encourage your son/daughter to take an interest in the wider world and the events that are happening around them by reading newspapers and watching news and current affairs programmes on television.
Could you come in on a regular basis to help out? Could you collect and deliver to us scrap material?
Contact: Subject Leader – Mr N Pritchard
Course Content
Developing confidence and responsibility and making the most of student abilities
- assessing their strengths
- respecting differences between people, so they consider their sense of identity
- developing a healthy, safer lifestyle
- physical and emotional changes that take place at puberty and how to manage these changes in a positive way.
- how to keep healthy
- a balanced lifestyle
Developing good relationships and respecting the differences between people
- the effects of stereotyping and bullying and how to challenge assertively
- friendship, how to make and keep friends, the changing nature of relationships with friends
and family and where to seek help
- being able to communicate with their peers and adults
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