PSHE
The PSHE curriculum is very broad-ranging, based on local need, to cover the vast array of life skills and useful information that students do not learn in other lessons. Life skills, such as cooking and first aid, are taught alongside more theoretical topics, including relationships and drug awareness.
Key Stage 3 (Years 7-9)
In Year 7, the curriculum is delivered by Year 7 form tutors, leveraging their knowledge of their students and the skill set of the Year 7 tutor team. In Years 8 and 9, the curriculum is delivered solely by specialist PSHE staff. A specialist team also delivers the cookery lessons. In Year 8, students have one half-term of cookery and one half-term of PSHE each term.
Lessons are bolstered by external provisions from appropriate agencies such as Brook Sexual Health and Thames Valley Police, as well as enrichment days, mini PSHE in form times, assemblies and specialist sessions
Topics covered are as follows:
Year 7
- Settling in to DCGS
- Challoner’s Resilience
- Collaboration
- Prejudice
- Disability
- Physical Health
- Love and Sexuality
- Equality and Kindness
- Identity
- Smoking and vaping
- First aid
- Healthy relationships
Year 8
- Cookery
- Challoner’s Resilience
- Character Education
- Information/Disinformation
- Evaluating resources
- Upstander vs bystander
- Understanding Privilege
- Relationship abuse
- Consent
- Sharing sexual images
- Revision skills
- Addiction
- Physical Health
Year 9
- Critical Thinking
- Challoner’s Resilience
- Healthy relationships
- Physical Health:
- Sleep
- Cancer
- Careers:
- Planning
- GCSE Choices
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
- Addiction: Smoking, vaping, drugs and alcohol
- Knife free
- Revision skills
- Consent