PSHE Provision
PSHE Provision and Wider Curriculum Opportunities
PSHE is an integral part of learning at Saltash Community School, taught discreetly by the PSHE team as well as covered in our tutor times encompassing our reading programme, below is the outline of the programme and wider curriculum opportunities provided for our students.
The lessons will be delivered under the broader titles using the PSHE association framework, our concepts are:
- Health and Wellbeing
- Relationships
- Living in the Wider World
Activities and learning:
- in Personal Development and Be Well lessons are in black
- in other curriculum subjects are in red
- drop down days and extra-curricular are in blue
- Guest speakers
Spiral Curriculum Strands:
- RSE (RSE)
- Wider world (LWW)
- Health and Wellbeing (HWB)
Contact Head of PSHE Emma Gue at egue@saltashcloud.net and Emma Childs for KS5 at echilds@saltashcloud.net should you have any questions about the programme or PSHE content.
PSHE Vision:
- Encourage pupils to develop the knowledge, skills, and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy and safe, and prepared for life and work in modern Britain.
- PSHE is the lifelong learning about physical, moral, economic, cultural, social, and emotional development. It is about the understanding of the importance of stable and loving relationships, family, respect, love, and care.
- Helps pupils to achieve their academic potential, and leave school equipped with skills they will need throughout later life, giving them all the skills needed to achieve their aspirations and ambitions.
Intent:
- Build pupils key skills and attributes for life and work the non-academic skills and attributes acquired through PSHE education have a positive impact on academic performance and life chances as well as being key to boosting the employability of school-leavers and improving social mobility.
- Educating pupils about their health reduces risk-taking behaviours such as drug or alcohol addiction and improves diet and exercise levels, in turn boosting long-term life chances.
- Promote positive outcomes relating to emotional health while reducing stigma and helping pupils learn where to go if they have mental health concerns.
- Promoting positive mental health among pupils.
- Give pupils information on where to go if they are worried about their own mental health or that of a friend or family member.
- Reduce mental health stigma by teaching about the issue openly and honestly
- Provide an opportunity to learn about aspects such as the impact of personal financial choices, an understanding of risk and responsibility, about different types of work and the influence of the media on financial choices (e.g., in relation to gambling).
- Challenge pupils on unhealthy and exploitative relationships, both to safeguard them from being abused and prevent them from engaging in abusive behaviours themselves as well as informing students about child safety online and offline.
Implementation:
- Plan a programme which introduces new and more challenging learning, while building on what has gone before, which reflects and meets the personal developmental needs of children and young people.
- Take a positive approach which does not attempt to induce shock or guilt but focuses on what children and young people can do to keep themselves and others healthy and safe and to lead happy and fulfilling lives.
- Offer a wide variety of teaching and learning styles within PSHE education including external agency and organisation input, with an emphasis on interactive learning, responding to the needs of our learners.
Rationale from KS2 through to KS5
The PSHE curriculum addresses both pupils’ current experiences and preparation for their future. This Programme of Study therefore provides a spiral curriculum to develop knowledge, skills, and attributes, where prior learning is revisited, reinforced, and extended year on year.
During Key Stages 1 and 2, PSHE education offers both explicit and implicit learning opportunities and experiences which reflect pupils’ increasing independence and physical and social awareness, as they move through the primary phase. It builds on the skills that pupils started to acquire during the Early Years Foundation stage (EYFS) to develop effective relationships, assume greater personal responsibility and manage personal safety, including online. PSHE education helps pupils to manage the physical and emotional changes at puberty, introduces them to a wider world and enables them to make an active contribution to their communities.
At Key Stage 3, students build on the knowledge and understanding, skills, attributes, and values they have acquired and developed during the primary phase. PSHE education acknowledges and addresses the changes that young people experience, beginning with transition to secondary school, the challenges of adolescence and their increasing independence. It teaches the knowledge and skills which will equip them with the opportunities and challenges of life. Students learn to manage diverse relationships, their online lives, and the increasing influence of peers and the media.
At Key Stage 4, students deepen knowledge and understanding, extend and rehearse skills, and further explore attitudes, values and attributes acquired during Key Stage 3. PSHE education reflects the fact that students are moving towards an independent role in adult life, taking on greater responsibility for themselves and others.
At Key stage 5, the balance shifts towards teaching related to young people’s current experiences. The learning opportunities at Key Stage 5 assume that students have already covered those in Key Stage 4. This Key Stage represents the last opportunity to ensure that students have the knowledge and understanding, skills, strategies, and attributes they need for independent living and the next stage in their education or career.
Year 7 PSHE Programme and Implementation – One lesson per week |
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Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
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Additional | University Passport Scheme including university trips TEAM week programme – allowing students to develop skills and qualities outside of the classroom Extra-Curricular programme including opportunities like Girls Active, please see separate programme Inter form Cross Country, Netball, Rugby, Football, Sports day and Athletics and school team opportunities Student Council and House captain opportunities Carol concert, school production, and concert as well as the end of year celebration event Character sessions and Well-being activity selection in tutor time TEAM Reader scheme Student ambassador scheme |
Year 8 PSHE Programme – One lesson per week | |
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Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
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Additional | Children’s University Passport Scheme including university visits and the chance to be school ambassadors Full Extra-Curricular programme including opportunities like Girls Active, crafting, gardening, coding, Performing Arts (please see separate programme) Inter form Cross Country, Netball, Rugby, Football and Athletics and school team opportunities School production and celebration events UK Mock trial opportunity Character sessions and Well-being activity selection in tutor time TEAM Reader programme TEAM enrichment week with each day focused on our different values |
Year 9 PSHE Programme – One lesson per week | |
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Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
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Additional | Same as year 8 above but also including: Post-16 Options Evening open to all students and their parents Duke of Edinburgh Scheme Sports Leadership opportunities including Football leaders Options process including Options evening and Post 16 pathways evening TEAM Residential week |
Year 10 PSHE Programme – One lesson per fortnight | |
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Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
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Additional | Post-16 Options Evening open to all students and their parents Opportunity to become a Sports leader and take part in sport festivals and events DoE Silver opportunity Work experience Opportunities to represent school in teams and extra-curricular programme Character sessions/BV and Well-being activity selection in tutor time as well as TEAM reader programme |
Year 11 PSHE Programme – Also taught during tutor time in Y11 | |
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Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
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Additional | Sports leadership programme NCS opportunity-to sign up and take part in the scheme Opportunities to represent school in teams and extra-curricular programme Character sessions and Well-being activity selection in tutor time as well CSW Ambitions project for additional transition RIO mentoring programme for selected students |
Sixth Form
Activities and learning:
- in PSHE are in red
- in Assemblies are in Green
Year 12 PSHE Programme – One lesson per week | |
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Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
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Additional | Post-16 Options Evening open to all students and their parents National Citizenship Service Scheme (summer term) Various opportunities are advertised to students such as Exeter Scholars, Cambridge University Shadowing Scheme, Inspire2Involve (Oxbridge), Sutton Trust Summer Schools, Nuffield Research Fellowships etc. All of these have had students participating during the last three years. Invitations to open days and taster days are also passed on The opportunity to be on the head student team and take on responsibility roles within the Sixth form |
Year 13 Careers & Work–Related Learning | |
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Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
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Additional | Post-16 Options Evening open to all students and their parents National Citizenship Service Scheme (summer term) Various opportunities are advertised to students such as open days, gap year schemes, Bettie Weissman International Summer Science Institute etc. The school takes part in Truro school’s Oxbridge preparation activities in the autumn term (focusing on interview). Mock interviews are also offered to all students. Tutor programme including well-being and character sessions Sports leadership programme Head student team opportunities Shared reading and peer mentoring |