PSHE
INTENT
Our PSHE/RSE programme prepares students for the challenges of adolescence and the adult world by delivering factual knowledge and transferable skills (decision-making, critical thinking, emotional regulation, financial capability, digital resilience). It promotes personal development, healthy relationships, and informed choices about physical and mental health, careers and civic responsibility. The curriculum is inclusive (covers LGBT+, SEND, protected characteristics) and sequenced to support safe progression from early secondary through to post-16 readiness.
IMPLEMENTATION
PSHE is delivered through weekly timetabled lessons, themed assemblies, tutor-time activities and targeted enrichment. The scheme is progressive: each year group has specific knowledge outcomes and skills-based objectives; lessons use active pedagogy, reflective tasks and retrieval practice. We integrate LMI for careers, embed safeguarding and consent guidance, and ensure all external providers are quality-assured. Assessment includes knowledge quizzes, reflective journals and evidence in student portfolios. Parents/carers are engaged via information evenings and published curriculum maps.
IMPACT
Students demonstrate age-appropriate increase in knowledge, safer behaviours online and offline, improved mental health literacy and clearer post-16 plans. Impact measures include termly knowledge checks, longitudinal student wellbeing surveys, destination data at KS4/KS5, reduced safeguarding incidents related to relationships/digital harm, and positive feedback from student focus groups