P.S.H.E. 

   In Personal, Social and Health Education (P.S.H.E.) there are five cross-curricular topics:

•  Careers Education and Guidance
• Health Education
• Education for Citizenship
• Environmental Education
• Education for Economic and Industrial Understanding

    The aims for P.S.H.E. are:

    Promoting pupils´ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. For example, P.S.H.E. provides opportunities for:

• Spiritual development, through fostering pupils´ awareness and understanding of meaning and purpose in life and of differing values in the human society
• Moral development, through helping pupils develop a critical appreciation of issues of right and wrong, justice, fairness, rights and obligations in society.
• Social development, through helping pupils to acquire the understanding and skills needed to become responsible and effective members of society.
• Cultural development, through helping pupils to understand the nature and role of the different groups to which they belong, and promoting respect for diversity and difference.

    Promoting key skills. For example, P.S.H.E. provides opportunities for pupils to develop the key skills of:

• Communication, through researching discussing and sharing information and ideas about a wide variety of social, political and community issues.
• Application of number, through examining statistics to consider the ways they are used and abused in a variety of social and political contexts.
• Working with others, through sharing ideas, formulating policies and taking part in responsible action in communities
• Improving own learning and performance, through reflecting on their own and others´ ideas and achievements, and setting targets for future involvement and improvement.
• Problem solving, though becoming involved in political and community issues

    Promoting other aspects of the curriculum, for example:

• Thinking skills, through helping pupils to engage in social issues that require the use of reasoning, understanding and action through enquiry and evaluation
• Work-related learning, through helping pupils to appreciate the link between learning and work for a thriving economy and society
• Education for sustainable development, though developing pupil´ skills in, and commitment to, effective participation in the democratic and other decision-making processes that affect the quality, structure and health of environments and society and the exploring values that determine people´s actions within society, the economy and the environment.

    The contents of P.S.H.E. Key Stage 3 are:

·         Year 7: 1. Rules, rights and responsibilities; 2. Homework and study techniques; 3. Communities and lifestyles; 4. Recycling; 5. Bullying; 6. First Aid; 7.Drugs; 8. Social Skills; 9. Reviewing your progress.

·         Year 8: 1. Healthy eating; 2. Hunger and malnutrition; 3. Rich world- poor world; 4. Pollution; 5. Spanish Government; 6. Women´s Rights; 7. Alcoholism; 8. Sex Education; 9. Developing a product.

·         Year 9: 1. You and your feelings; 2. Water; 3. The European Community; 4. Smoking; 5. Emancipation of slaves; 6. Eating disorders; 7. A.I.D.S.; 8. Racism; 9. Images and Stereotypes (Prejudice and discrimination)

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