Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) and Citizenship

Personal, social and health education and citizenship help to give pupils the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives and to become informed, active, responsible adults.

Staff

Head of PSHE:

Mr Roger Mills BEd (Hons)

Pupils are encouraged to take part in a wide range of activities and experiences across and beyond the curriculum, contributing fully to the life of their school and communities. In doing so they learn to recognise their own worth, work well with others and become increasingly responsible for their own learning.

They reflect on their own experiences and understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling many of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. They also find out about the main political and social institutions that affect their lives, and about responsibilities, rights and duties as individuals and members of communities. They learn to understand and respect our common humanity, diversity and differences so that they can go on to form the effective, fulfilling relationships that are an essential part of life and learning.

Personal and social education, of course, starts within the family and is developed by the prevailing ethos of the school, as well as by the set curriculum. This is indeed very important, as the foundation subject, Citizenship, puts further demands on an already busy schedule. The additions to the curriculum have mostly been about political institutions, as much of the required content was already in place.