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 topics covered in Key Stage 4 are:

·         Year 10 and Year 11: 1. Personal topics: Personal identity, stereotypes, target setting, decision making, revision and exam techniques, personal relationships. 2. Health education in adolescence: changing anatomy/changing moods, personal hygiene, family and friends, food and nutrition, sex education, drug abuse and leisure activities; 3. Careers: roles in society, world of work and transition; 4. Environment: natural processes, interaction (human and environment) and impact of decisions on the environment; 5. Citizenship: sense of community, citizen and the law, rights and responsibilities and conflicts and possible solutions.

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