PSHE
Subject leader: Mrs C Doyle Jeffery
Through our multi-dimensional Personal, Social and Health and Economic education PSHE Programme we aim for our students to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy, safe and prepared for life inside and outside of school.
At Robert Clack, PSHE is underpinned by the school ethos and is being delivered through Form Time activities and Assemblies, drop down PSHE days, cross-curricular links with Science and RE and other citizenship events so as to develop well-rounded individuals to lead successful lives after they complete their Secondary Education
PSHE is not only significant to ensuring that students are developing into well-rounded individuals but also according to the PSHE Association website (add link https://pshe-association.org.uk/what-is-pshe-education) the subject’s importance to children and young people’s wellbeing and knock-on effects on academic achievement, stating that:
‘The evidence shows that personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education can improve the physical and psychosocial well-being of pupils. A virtuous cycle can be achieved, whereby pupils with better health and well-being can achieve better academically, which in turn leads to greater success’.
The PSHE (personal, social, health and economic) curriculum has been developed in line with guidance from the PSHE association and follows a model of:
PSHE follows a spiral curriculum to ensure development of knowledge throughout the key stages. The following key topics are studied:
By the end of Year 7 students will have covered the following topics: -
By the end of Year 8 students will have covered the following topics: -
By the end of Year 9 students will have covered the following topics: -
By the end of Year 10 students will have covered the following topics
By the end of Year 11 students will have covered the following topics: -
Year 7 - Online Safety
Year 8 - Keeping Safe – Knife Crime
Year 9 - Consent and Peer on Peer Abuse
Year 10 - Contraception and STI’s
Year 11 - Consent(online and off) and Pornography