PSHEE
Personal, Social, Health, Economic Education – PSHEE
The aim of Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education is to give children and young people the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy and independent lives. It aims to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up.
Every member of the teaching staff is a teacher of PSHEE at St James’. Form tutors deliver the programmes of study to their forms in years 7, 8 & 9 while in years 10 & 11 pupils are taught in modular groups.
There is an assessment task for each year group. Years 7, 8 & 9 receive Attitude to Learning grades on the termly interim reports and PSHEE is commented on by form tutors in the yearly reports to parents.
Visitors and theatre groups are used where ever possible to add to the curriculum, and in year 7 there is a PSHEE and Citizenship day of activities.
Pupils receive one fifty minute lesson each week of PSHEE which rotates around the weekly timetable, but the key ideas of the subject are reinforced across the curriculum. The curriculum is as follows:
Year 7
Settling in
Bonfire Night safety talk
Self assessment
PSHE and C day
Organisation skills
Self
Local government
Review day preparations
Anti-smoking
Recycling
Anti-bullying
Sex and relationships
Personal hygiene
Sun safety
Year 8
Group concerns
Tourism
Drug Education
Healthy Eating
Safety
Review day preparations
Sex and relationship education
Families
Anti-bullying
Parliament, laws and local government
Alcohol Education
Year 9
Relationships
Prejudice
Alcohol Education
Careers Education
Drugs Education
Sex and relationship education
Review day preparations
Young people and crime (includes magistrate visitors)
Year 10 – modular course
Careers Education and work experience preparation
Drugs education
Global citizenship
Make a Difference
Crime
Year 11
Aquinas talks and work experience review
Careers Education
Study skills
Sex and Relationships Education
Alcohol Education
Know your rights