Personal, Social & Health Education

Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education aims to enable each student to develop into a healthy, well rounded and responsible adult. Through a wide variety of active learning styles, PSHE lessons encourage every student to participate fully and discuss, reflect on and form their own opinions and views.

The key aims are to:

• Develop confidence and responsibility
• Develop a healthy, safer lifestyle
• Develop good relationships and respect the differences between people
• Acquire knowledge and understanding about becoming informed citizens
• Develop skills of enquiry and communication
• Actively participate and take responsible action

Personal, social and health education (PSHE) at Key Stages 3 and 4 helps pupils to lead confident, healthy and responsible lives as individuals and members of society. Through work in lesson time and a wide range of activities across and beyond the curriculum, pupils gain practical knowledge and skills to help them live healthily and deal with the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues they face as they approach adulthood. PSHE gives pupils opportunities to reflect on their experiences and how they are developing. It helps them to understand and manage responsibly a wider range of relationships as they mature and to show respect for the diversity of, and differences between, people. It also develops pupils' well-being and self-esteem, encouraging belief in their ability to succeed and enabling them to take responsibility for their learning and future choice of courses and career. PSHE at Key Stages 3 and 4 builds on pupils' own experiences and on work at Key Stages 1 and 2 and complements citizenship in the curriculum, which covers public policy dilemmas related to health, law and family.