PSHE

Head of Department: Mr L West

At Claremont High School we provide Personal, Social, Health and Economic education to Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 through a spiral programme that gradually expands and enriches key concepts, increases knowledge, deepens understanding, and rehearses and develops key skills through a thematic approach.

The 3 core areas covered are:

Health and Wellbeing
Relationships
Living in the Wider World

Our PSHE education programme is a spiral curriculum that is built from our school and wider community values and needs. The nature of it means that our co-curriculum opportunities are intrinsically linked to its themes and provision. In this way it also gives us the unique position of being fundamental to the whole school ethos and acting as a co-curricular opportunity for all other areas.

Curriculum intent

Our overall aim is to prepare our pupils for everyday life situations which they will face as adults, taught through the three core topic areas: Health and Wellbeing, Relationships and Living in the Wider World.

We aim to prepare our young people for:

Transition to a more grown up mind set in negotiating relationships, personal health and life skills;
Connecting relationships learning to group behaviours and personal choices;
Taking personal learning into more complex and adult situations. Negotiating sexual interests and possible abusive situations;
Adult expectations, behaviours and vulnerability in the wider community and world. Direct engagement with religious and secular perspectives are used to develop knowledge.

The skills and knowledge acquired through the PSHE curriculum are based around healthy communication and increasing emotional literacy to be able to negotiate challenging situations. These skills also build more personal responsibility for managing personal hygiene and getting support for any issues. Pupils are given opportunities to develop knowledge in self-identity and differences with others – applying the same skills to more complex and challenging situations. The themes of communication, boundaries and empathy provide the foundation to all the learning.

Learning is taken into more “real world” and adult situations with a focus on personal ideology and wider cultural and religious ideologies. Building and managing differences into conflicts arising from clashing ideologies and those with protected characteristics.

The key concepts which underpin all the topics covered are:

Identity
Resilience
Managing Change
Power (within social contexts such as peer-pressure)
Rights, Responsibility and Consent
Diversity and Equality
Risk management
Health (mental, physical and emotional) and Balanced lifestyles
Relationships (including; friendships, romantic, familial)
Career (including academic choices, enterprise and economic understanding)
Financial Literacy

Key Stage 3

Throughout Key stage three and four PSHE is taught by a dedicated team from a variety of different subject areas to ensure not only consistency in subject knowledge and delivery but also effective monitoring and evaluation of the course and the subject content. Our overall aim is to ensure pupils are ready to uphold the Claremont visions and values within School and wider society, preparing our students to be successful in life beyond secondary education. PSHE is a core subject and everybody is required to study all aspects of the PSHE curriculum, with exceptions to specific content within the Relationships and Sex Education topics, where pupils can be withdrawn from this area of the curriculum only.

PSHEE education is central to the development of the young people at Claremont. The planned programme is designed to help them deal with the difficult moral, social and health-related issues that arise in their lives and in society. It also helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to live confident, healthy, independent lives as individuals, parents, workers and members of society. Pupils take part in a variety of informal assessments during lessons, including extended writing and short answer tasks, and discussions. Progress is evidenced through individual tasks and group work.

Key Stage 4

The key focus in Key Stage 4 is to further develop knowledge and understanding of the core skills, linking these into relevant real life adult situations pupils will face in life beyond school. We emphasise adult expectations, behaviours and vulnerability in the wider community and the wider world. Direct engagement with religious and secular perspectives are used to develop knowledge as part of the PSHRE curriculum, which the RE department have a large input into.

The curriculum map for Key Stage 3 and 4:

Year 7	Relationships		Health and Wellbeing		Life Skills - Living in the Wider World
	Term 1a	Term 1b	Term 2a	Term 2b	Term 3a	Term 3b
	Intro to PSHE Values and Role Models Choices and Consequences	Consequences and social responsibility Peer pressure and bullying	Balanced lifestyle – diet, exercise, sleep Physical health	Mental health Social health Puberty	Positive contributions to society Charity and Volunteering	Environment Human Rights Equality
Year 8	Health and Wellbeing	Relationships	Life Skills – Living in the Wider World		Relationships	Health and Wellbeing
	Term 1a	Term 1b	Term 2a	Term 2b	Term 3a	Term 3b
	Healthy Lifestyles Effects of Caffeine Effects of smoking and alcohol	Group Behaviour and Expectations – Discrimination Social responsibility (Racism, Gender and sexuality)	UK Parliament UK Economy Careers – Year 8 options support and education	Taxation Personal Finance	Healthy relationships (child on child abuse) Social media Online safety	Mental Health RSE – STI’s and contraception
Year 9	Health and Wellbeing		Life Skills – Living in the Wider World		Relationships
	Term 1a	Term 1b	Term 2a	Term 2b	Term 3a	Term 3b
	Sex and the law Consent, capacity and judgement	Puberty – Changes and Staying Healthy Gender and equality	Finance - Interest rates and mortgages Debt	Careers and career development (challenging stereotypes) Year 9 options education	Domestic abuse Child sexual exploitation	Healthy relationships Family and friendships (child on child abuse)
Year 10	Health and Wellbeing	Relationships		Health and Wellbeing	Life Skills – Living in the Wider World
	Term 1a	Term 1b	Term 2a	Term 2b	Term 3a	Term 3b
	Balanced, healthy lifestyles and lifestyle choices - (including Pornography) Drugs Education/Law	Social compliance Recruitment and grooming	child on child abuse Healthy Relationships Gender expectations and discrimination	Mindfulness: healthy mind, healthy body Exam stress and management techniques	Politics Democracy and political systems	Options after GCSE’s Careers – applying for jobs and maintaining professional presence (online safety)
Year 11	Health and Wellbeing		Relationships		Life Skills – Living in the Wider World
	Term 1a	Term 1b	Term 2a	Term 2b	Term 3a	Term 3b
	Parenthood, fertility/ Pregnancy/abortion choices First aid Lifestyle choices: alcohol	Exam stress and management techniques Revision techniques/study skills	Forced and arranged marriages Honour crime	Abusive relationships Healthy relationships Marriage and family Human Rights and Equality	Personal and professional development Finance - Student debt Budgeting	Exams

Key Stage 5

At KS5 we run a range of compulsory sessions that meet the needs of our older students and help them prepare for the wider world. The content is tailored to our students and is delivered by the same team of specialist staff. Our KS5 students also have the opportunity to support in the delivery of some content to lower school. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop communication skills and build healthy and supportive relationships across our school community.

Enrichment

The PSHE team are involved in writing and delivering a number of workshops and assemblies across the school. Every year we deliver assemblies ranging from Holocaust Memorial Day, online safety, gender equality, social influence and beyond. These themes of equality and mutual respect are interwoven through our curriculum. Our presence in the wider school helps reinforce these values and places them in a position of import on the whole school setting.

The PSHE team also works closely with the pastoral team to provide intervention for selected students when possible. This may be through small groups or 1-1 additional sessions. During this time experienced members of the PSHEE team will work on the themes within our curriculum but will be able to go into far more depth and pull apart the more complex elements of the most relevant themes.

We run a Mental Wellbeing and Mindfulness programme. This is primarily run through tutorial however the content reaches into every aspect of Claremont life. Through these sessions all staff and students will be introduced to easy practices to manage their feelings and build their emotional literacy. Alongside our core curriculum this helps our whole community develop their resilience, stress management and communication skills. Now more than ever, this is an area vital to the positive development of young people to ensure their success both personally and academically.

Next Steps

The school provides opportunities for young people to make real decisions about their lives, to take part in activities that stimulate adult choices, and where they can demonstrate their ability to take responsibility for their decisions. Links are consistently made to organisations that everyone can go to for help with specific and sensitive issues young people and adult may face.

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