Curriculum Aims

PSHE combines the study of healthy relationships and sex education, wellbeing, health, citizenship and economic education. The curriculum has been framed following the Statutory Healthy Relationships and Sex Education guidance. Students discuss issues in a way that promotes awareness of the consequences of different choices and lifestyles. Importantly we encourage curiosity about the world, ensuring that students are prepared to act respectfully in society.

The aim of our curriculum is:

• To encourage independent learners, listeners and thinkers
• To provide enjoyable courses, that will stimulate interest and enthusiasm in the subjects
• To provide a truly embedded, diverse curriculum, committed to exploring different perspectives
• To challenge prejudice and to address the moral issues thrown up by any study
• To provide the questions to assist students in developing skills of analysis and argument – both oral and written
• To guide students in opening their minds to alternative ideas and outcomes
• To ensure students achieve to the best of their ability
• To assist students in the discovery and understanding of the world that is constructed around them
• To empower students with information that helps them make choices that are right for them
• To offer students sources of information, advice and support

This subject is not examined

The attached long term plans provides a summary of the curriculum for this subject.