PSHE/RSE/Citizenship

Curriculum INTENT

Personal Social Health Education (PSHE) including Relationships Sex Education (RSE), and Citizenship is at the heart of our school values and ethos and runs throughout all that we do. The PSHE/ RSE curriculum aims to enable our students to become healthy, safe, independent, responsible members of society who demonstrate respect and tolerance and who are prepared to face and manage the challenges and opportunities of an ever-changing modern Britain. The Citizenship strand of the curriculum provides our students with opportunities to learn about power, democracy, the operation of government and the legal system, and the role of the UK in the wider world.

Curriculum End Points

Domains of knowledge

KS3

Highly Skilful - Fitness, Technique, Competence, Creativity, Health & Wellbeing.

Students will develop controlled techniques with good levels of competence and success, across a number of activities.
Students will develop and display good levels of fitness in most sports.
Students can make good decisions during in competitive situations.
Students demonstrate good understanding of concepts around health and wellbeing.

Effective Thinking - Tactics, Problem solving, Rules, Self-reflection, Feedback.

Students can reflect on their own and others performances, providing general feedback which improves some sporting outcomes.
Students demonstrate good use of tactics across a number of activities.
Students can apply some level of creativity when performing in specific activities.
Students have a good understanding of rules and can apply them in specific sports.

Empowering Character - Leadership, Confidence, Resilience, Teamwork, self-discipline.

Students display good leadership qualities and understand the importance of teamwork.
Students show good levels of resilience and confidence when performing in specific activities.
Students show good self-discipline and understand its importance when taking part in different activities.
Students will have a clear understanding of sportsmanship and gamesmanship.

KS4

Highly Skilful - Fitness, Technique, Competence, Creativity, Health & Wellbeing.

Students will consistently demonstrate, with excellent precision and competence, a wide variety of techniques in a range of highly competitive activities.
Students will have excellent levels of fitness across the majority of activities.
Students will be highly motivated to make informed choices to take part in physical activity and maintain high levels of health and wellbeing.

Effective Thinking - Tactics, Problem solving, Rules, Self-reflection, Feedback.

Students can accurately reflect on and evaluate their own and others performances, providing specific feedback to improve sporting outcomes.-
Students will demonstrate excellent decision making and use tactics across a range of activities to improve performance.-
Students will consistently show excellent levels of concentration and creativity in their performances across activities.-
Students will have an extended understanding of rules and can apply them consistently in the majority of sports when performing.

Empowering Character - Leadership, Confidence, Resilience, Teamwork, self-discipline.

Students will demonstrate excellent leadership and teamwork qualities which help to motivate and inspire their peers.
Students will be extremely resilient and confident when performing across a range of activities.
Students will demonstrate an extremely positive attitude and effort towards all tasks they take participate in.
Students show excellent self-discipline, honesty and integrity across a range of activities.

What will I study?

PSHE/SRE/RE/CITIZENSHIP:

Students have dedicated lessons across Key stage 3 and 4 which are taught by specialist teachers. Students also receive lessons from outside agencies such as the Brook, George House Trust, faith leaders/groups and Audacious Schools Topics are further explored in form time and during assemblies.

As well as the programmed lessons other topics may be included if and when needed, in response to local, national or international issues. KS3 PSHE/RSE is taught alongside Citizenship and RE, the curriculum is spiral and topics are revisited in order to remind students and further develop the skills they need.

PSHSRE Topics are covered in the units: Mental and Emotional Health, Healthy Lifestyles, Keeping Safe, Relationship and Sex Education

Citizenship Topics are covered in the unit: Living in the Wider World and themed weeks such as diversity week

RE Topics are covered in the units: How radical was Jesus? How do people express their faith or their spiritual ideas through the arts? Is religion a cause for peace or a cause for conflict? Believing in God and Religion and Stewardship. These units include teachings from 6 main world religions.

KS3 Citizenship is taught alongside PSHE/RSE and RE topics include: Democracy, Law, Finance, UK Parliament week and Volunteering.

KS3 Religious Education is taught alongside PSHE/SRE and Citizenship. Topics include: How Radical was Jesus? How do people express their faith or their spiritual ideas through the arts? Is Religion a cause for peace or conflict?

KS4 PSHE/RSE is taught alongside non-GCSE RE and Citizenship, it is delivered by specialist teachers.

Topics are Mental and Emotional Health, Healthy Lifestyles, Keeping Safe, Relationship and Sex Education and Living in the Wider World. Students also receive lessons from outside agencies such as the Brook.

KS4 Citizenship is taught alongside PSHE/RSE and RE topics include: Rights and Responsibility, The Justice System, Law, Finance and Volunteering

KS4 Non GCSE Religious Education is taught alongside PSHE/SRE and Citizenship, topics include: Believing in God and Religion and Stewardship

Curriculum in Year 7

RE: What is so radical about Jesus?

This unit enables pupils to explore the life of a religious founder/leader with specific reference to reconciliation, forgiveness and loving one’s enemies. Pupils are enabled to think for themselves about questions to do with the life of Jesus. Which people are special and why? Why is Jesus inspiring to some people? What would Jesus do? Can we live by the values of Jesus in the twenty-first century? Pupils are encouraged to consider what can be learned from these ideas by referring to their own experiences, beliefs and values.

Where this unit fits in:

This unit contributes to the continuity and progression of pupils’ learning by developing pupil’s knowledge of Christianity at KS2 and will be continued in year 9 when considering if religion is a power for peace or conflict

KEY STRANDS of RE ADDRESSED BY THIS UNIT

Beliefs, Values and Teachings
Ways of expressing meaning
Questions of Meaning, Purpose and Truth
Questions of value and commitment

ATTITUDES FOCUS:

Pupils will explore attitudes of:

Enquiry and response through the use of religious vocabulary, questioning and empathy;
Reflection, expression, application, analysis and evaluation of beliefs, values and practices, and the communication of personal responses to these.

PSHE/RSE

Mental Health: Transition to secondary school, self esteem, online relationships, My Mind My Body week. Healthy Lifestyles: What is good health?, Oral Hygiene, Personal Hygiene Keeping safe: Knife crime awareness, basic first aid and CPR, Staying safe in the community including water and road safety.

Relationship and Sex Education: Puberty and reproduction (recap of content taught in science), Healthy relationships, stable and long term relationships, forced marriage and honour-based violence.

Citizenship

Living in the Wider world (PSHE/Citizenship) Democracy, British Values, UK Parliament week, how to manage money, enterprise skills

Curriculum in Year 8

RE: How do people express their faith or their spiritual ideas through the arts?

This unit enables pupils to engage with spiritual ideas through the arts. The focus is on engagement with Christian, Muslim, Buddhist and Sikh ideas explored through the arts. Pupils are enabled to think for themselves about questions to do with the meaning, history and spirituality behind the works studied. Pupils are encouraged to consider what can be learned from these expressions of faith by referring to their own experiences, beliefs and values.

Where this unit fits in:

This unit contributes to the continuity and progression of pupils’ learning by developing pupil’s knowledge of Christian, Buddhist and Sikh faiths studied at KS2 and in year 7. This unit also has strong links with the art and literacy curriculum.

KEY STRANDS of RE ADDRESSED BY THIS UNIT

Beliefs, Values and Teachings
Ways of expressing meaning
Questions of Meaning, Purpose and Truth
Questions of value and commitment

ATTITUDES FOCUS:

Pupils will explore attitudes of:

Open mindedness by engaging in positive discussion and debate about the ideas of faith expressed in the works of art studied.
Appreciation and wonder by developing their capacity to respond to works of art, to be creative and to enter into life’s mysteries with imagination.
The unit will provide these opportunities:
Pupils have opportunities to consider the concepts of worship, meditation and celebration.
Pupils have opportunities to consider a diverse range of views about questions of expression and meaning in relation to spirituality and faith.
From the study of Christianity, Islam and Sikhism pupils will be able to think about their own experiences and views in relation to questions of spirituality in the arts.
Experiences and opportunities provided by this unit include; exploring Christian, Muslim and Sikh creativity through the arts, through a range of media; discussing the significance of this art to Christian communities; responding personally to the artwork they have seen and heard.

PSHE/SRE

Mental Health: Assertiveness, Sexting and the law, Change and loss.

Healthy Lifestyles: Immunisations, Diet, Exercise, Sleep. Keeping safe: Knife crime awareness, Drugs and Alcohol awareness.

Relationship and Sex Education: FGM, Gender and sexuality, Exploitation

Citizenship

Living in the Wider world (PSHE/Citizenship): Critical consumerism, Human Rights and responsibilities, Discrimination Parliament week

Curriculum in Year 9

RE: Is religion a power for peace or a cause of conflict in the world today?

This unit enables pupils to learn in depth from different religious examples of engagement with conflict and peace, exploring the issues. It provides opportunities for ‘dangerous conversation’ (encouraging real engagement in deep learning through exploring ideas which society often hides from view). Pupils will develop argumentative skills using different dimensions of the topic. Pupils are encouraged to consider what can be learned from these ideas by referring to their own experiences, beliefs and values.

Where this unit fits in:

This unit contributes to the continuity and progression of pupils’ learning by developing pupil’s knowledge of Christian, and Muslim faiths studied at KS2 and in year 7. This unit also has strong links with History curriculum.

KEY STRANDS of RE ADDRESSED BY THIS UNIT

Religious practices and ways of living;
questions about values and commitments

ATTITUDES FOCUS:

Pupils will explore attitudes of:

Enquiry and response through the use of religious vocabulary, questioning and empathy;
Reflection, expression, application, analysis and evaluation of beliefs, values and practices, and the communication of personal responses to these.

PSHE/SRE

Mental Health: Emotional Health, Body image, FOMO Healthy

Lifestyles : Cancer prevention, Organ donation

Keeping safe: Knife crime awareness, Drugs and Alcohol awareness, Gambling awareness Relationship and Sex Education: Consent, Contraception, Pregnancy

Citizenship

Living in the Wider world (PSHE/Citizenship): Financial risks, Options, Career aspiration. (Crime and Rights and Responsibilities including Human rights are included in RE curriculum)

Parliament Week

Curriculum in Year 10

Non GCSE RE

Believing in God and the problem of Evil and Suffering

PSHRE/SRE

Healthy Relationships including consent, parenthood and the impact of pornography Sexual Health including contraception and reproductive health

Drugs and alcohol

Staying safe including staying safe online and knife crime

Citizenship

Living in the Wider World: Improving employability skills, economic well-being, economic citizenship, employee rights.

Curriculum in Year 11

PSHE/RE/Citizenship Taught by form tutors:

Drugs and Alcohol
Online safety and grooming
Mental Health
Religion and Environment (Stewardship)
Democracy, Government and Law