PSHE
PSHE education is an important part of our school curriculum, it is incorporated into all year groups within our school. The main aim of our devised PSHE curriculum is to allow students to explore an array of topics in a safe and thought-provoking setting. To aid the delivery of PSHE within our school, we ensure that it is taught by form tutors; this also links closely to one of our whole school targets of building strong relationships and creating opportunities for face to face conversations and interaction.
PSHE PolicyRSHE PolicyPSHE and Power Days Scrapbook
Within PSHE lessons, students have the opportunity to learn how to stay healthy, safe and be prepared for life and work in modern Britain, through the delivery of our topics we believe it also helps pupils to achieve their academic potential by building the foundations of learning, friendship, trust, support, skills and an ability to be reflective in their learning.
The PSHE Curriculum is devised around the following categories:
- Keeping Safe
- Online Media
- Emotional and Mental Health
- Health and Fitness
- Relationships
- Sexual Health
- Future Choices and Money
- Personal Development Skills
- Values, Rights and Responsibilities
British Values and SMSC
British Values, Values Education and SMSC are closely linked, click here to view a mapping document that indicates the most significant British Values and SMSC within each of our lessons, although arguably, ‘rule of law’ and ‘democracy’ and ‘individual liberty’ are in every lesson. The level of reflection, discussion and team work also ensures that the social and spiritual elements of SMSC are included in all lessons.
PSHE learning occurs in the curriculum through:
- Planned weekly lessons.
- Planned tutorial programmes.
- Assemblies.
- Power Days.
- Student Voice.
- Student Council.
- Extra-Curricular Activities.
- Student roles within the school.
- Students’ involvement in the local community.
- Students’ participation in wider world initiatives.
The PSHE programme aims to:
- Develop emotional intelligence.
- Helps students to understand their own mental health.
- Developing a positive self-image and self-worth.
- Identify how to develop healthy relationships.
- Take responsibility for their own personal hygiene.
- Recognise how to keep themselves safe.
- Understand the importance of physical activity and its links to mental health.
- Allows students to prepare themselves for life and work.
- Allows students to be equipped with facts to help them consider difficult moral and social questions that arise in their lives and society.
- Enables students to develop their self-confidence both in and beyond the classroom.
- Educates students on others’ beliefs, values, and ways of life.
- Develops critical thinkers, who are unafraid to challenge existing assumptions, a transferable skill to apply to students’ studies and further education.
- An opportunity for students to reflect on a variety of issues and take part in discussions.
- An opportunity to explore current affairs, on a local, national, and global level.
- Promotes an environment where students can work independently and collaboratively.
- Be knowledgeable about themselves.
- Allows students to understand their own and others’ emotions, and develop healthy coping strategies.
- Deepens students’ ability to cope with the physical and emotional changes.
- Guides students about where they can seek appropriate support.
- Allows students to build skills to maintain successful interpersonal relationships.
- Students reflect on their learning at different stages of secondary education, helping them to plan their own future development.
- Assists in developing well-informed, thoughtful, and responsible citizens who are aware of their duties and rights.
Invicta Power Days
Our school has three ‘Power Days’ within the year:
- Relationships, Sex and Education Power Day
- Social and Global Awareness Power Day
- Careers Power Day
- Multi-Cultural Day
These days present an opportunity for students to spend a whole day learning, exploring, and deepening their understanding of a variety of topics, it allows the time to have a variety of guests, workshops, subject-specific focuses, peer-led initiatives, days which enable students to focus on team building activities and continue to build their interpersonal relationships with both staff and their peers.
For more information on the topics covered in our ‘Power Days’ and to see some of the highlights please visit our Power Days page here or view our PSHE and Power Days Scrapbook which is linked at the top of this page.
