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
PSHE end points
By the end of KS3 students will
- Build on the knowledge and understanding of PSHE/RSE topics such as relationships, health and wellbeing, living in the wider world from that of KS2.
- Acknowledge and understand the changes that a young person may experience, beginning with transition.
- To understand what my universal rights are and apply this to discrimination and equality.
- Understand and apply key terminology
- Identify and explain where to get support and help if I am concerned about a specific area.
- Understand what the law is around drugs, alcohol, consent, gangs and other scenarios.
- Explore what mental health is and strategies to support.
By the end of KS4 Students will
- Deepen knowledge and understanding of PSHE, RSE, skills from KS3 including relationships, living in the wider world and health and wellbeing.
- Extend and rehearse skills the challenges that a young person may face surrounding change, transition, exams, and relationships.
- To further explore what universal rights are and apply these to real scenarios, including discrimination and equality.
- Understand and apply key terminology
- Identify and explain where to get support and help if I am concerned about a specific area.
- Explain what the law is around drugs, alcohol, consent, gangs and other scenarios and know what action to take.
- Explore my own mental health, strategies to support and reducing the stigma around it.
Curriculum Map
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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 and Cookson First Aid. 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? What is the best way to achieve happiness? Where is God? These units include teachings from 6 main world religions.
KS3 Citizenship is taught alongside PSHE/RSE and RE topics include: Democracy, Law, Parliament
KS4 PSHE/RSE is taught alongside non-GCSE RE; 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 Responsibilities and careers.
KS4 Non GCSE Religious Education is taught alongside PSHE/SRE 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.
PSHE/RSE
Mental Health: Transition to secondary school, self-esteem, online relationships. Keeping safe: basic first aid and CPR, Staying safe in the community including water and road safety. Cookson First Aid visit Wright Robinson to deliver a session to each class.
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) British Values and Career Choices
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.
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: Gender and sexuality, Exploitation.
Citizenship
Living in the Wider world (PSHE/Citizenship): Human Rights and responsibilities and Career Options and focus.
Curriculum in Year 9
RE: What is the best way to achieve happiness?
This unit enables pupils to learn in depth from Christianity, Buddhism and non-religious worldviews about the significance of happiness. Through a study of the idea of happiness in the bible, the concept of dukkha and comparing the religious idea of ‘the good life’ to non-religious views of ‘the good life’. Is it morally acceptable to pursue attaining happiness? The unit enables pupils to use disciplines including theology, philosophy and psychology (of religion) in their RE.
Where this unit fits in:
This unit contributes to the continuity and progression of pupils’ learning by developing pupil’s knowledge of Buddhists Christians, non-religious worldviews e.g. Humanists studied at KS2 and in year 8.
KEY STRANDS of RE ADDRESSED BY THIS UNIT
Religious practices and ways of living.
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 and Healthy Online Relationships.
Keeping safe: Drugs and Alcohol awareness, Gambling awareness Relationship and Sex Education: Consent, Contraception, Pregnancy.
Citizenship
Living in the Wider world (PSHE/Citizenship): Parliament including voting, elections, democracy and monarchy. (Crime and Rights and Responsibilities including Human rights are included in RE curriculum).
Curriculum in Year 10
RE: Where is God?
This unit enables students to reflect on their own and others’ opinions about the existence of God. Students consider views from Christianity, Sikhism and non-religious worldviews to the question of the existence of God in the context of a world where suffering and evil exist.
The unit enables pupils to use disciplines including theology, philosophy and psychology (of religion) in their RE.
PSHE/RSE:
In year ten, students continue their understanding of managing emotional and mental health in a healthy manner through the topics of: Emotional Health, Body image and FOMO. Students are guided and supported to think about:
What is mental health, including depression and anxiety.
What can I do to manage online relationships and avoid negative influences.
What I can do to be a discerning consumer of online information.
RSE includes positive relationships within different types of relationships; relationship abuse; reasons for sex; coercion harassment and victim blaming; Reproductive Health/HIV
Healthy Lifestyles : Cancer prevention and Organ donation.
Keeping safe: Gambling and Dangerous situations, including positive risks and negative risks.
Living in the Wider world: Working with the Wright Robinson Career Lead, mock interviews are prepared for and take place.
Curriculum in Year 11
PSHE/SRE
In year eleven, students continue their understanding of managing their emotional and mental health.
They begin with ‘Why is it important to manage my personal and professional online identity?’
Students are encouraged to think about:
Why it is important to be mindful about we post online.
The ways in which information and data is generated, collected, shared and used online.
What strategies will help to protect your digital footprint, privacy and build a positive online identity.
They then move onto ‘How can we manage and avoid online propaganda and extremism?’
Students develop their skills at:
Defining and recognising propaganda.
Identifying techniques used to make propaganda material.
Analysing messages and images presented in the media and online.
Exploring and understanding the differences between extremism and radicalisation.
In the Summer term, students are prepared for the final term at Wright Robinson by being guided to develop strategies for managing exam stress.