Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)
Department Staff
- Miss Nicole Alcott
- Mr Chris Anderson
- Ms Jane Clarkson (Head of Department)
- Ms Catherine Egglestone
- Mr James Featherstone
- Mrs Judith Gardom
- Ms Lynne Hammond
- Miss Susan Lacey
- Miss Juliet Lanagan
- Mr Andrew Peploe
- Mr David Pickstone
- Mr Gareth Roots
- Mr Mark Shields
- Mr Ed Wiseman
Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)
PSHE is all about YOU
Preparing for life beyond school isn't just about getting good grades. It's about getting all the skills needed to live life to the full, confident that you are making choices you are happy with, comfortable being yourself and respecting the fabulous diversity of people around you. PSHE lessons provide a safe forum for you to develop your confidence and make the most of your abilities. Through PSHE you can learn to develop a healthy, safer lifestyle and form good relationships between people. PSHE also focuses on allowing you to become independent in both your thoughts and actions.
Beyond PSHE lessons you will find aspects of PSHE in tutorial time, assembly, hidden in lots of academic subjects from Science to Religious Studies and in any school activity which is concerned with your personal and social skills and happiness.
Course Content
The PSHE programme meets statutory requirements and is responsive to the current needs of pupils. The Head of PSHE (Miss Jane Clarkson) collaborates with the Deputy Head (Pastoral) Miss Louise Playfair and the Heads of Lower and Middle School (Mr Matthew Jelley and Mr Ed Wiseman) to provide a programme which complements pastoral care.
Lesson Time
The PHSE lessons take place as time-tabled, with two periods per (two week) cycle for First and Second Form, two per cycle for half a year for the Third Form and one per cycle for the Fourth and Fifth Form. Each topic is covered in roughly two periods. First, Third and Fifth Forms are taught in whole form groups with the Second and Fourth Forms being taught in half form groups.
PSHE Programme 2007 - 2008
| First Form | Second Form | Third Form | Fourth Form | Fifth Form |
| New School | Families | Human Rights | What is school for? | Moving into the Fifth Form – maturity and responsibility |
| Homework | Race | Rights and responsibilities – local, national and global | Bullying | Discussing Sixth Form options |
| Friends | Controlling anger and compromise | Political systems | Drugs | Emotional literacy |
| Peer pressure and bullying | Assertiveness | Charity work and service | Tobacco | Diet and performance |
| Resolving conflict | Gender and sexuality | Ageism | Alcohol | Work/Life balance |
| Alcohol | Puberty | Disability | Influences on sexual expression | Families |
| Tobacco | Considering sexual relationships | Media – news and current affairs | Respecting sexual diversity | Personal finance |
| Revision techniques | Safer sex and contraception | Media – films and drama | Safer sex – abstinence, mutual monogamy and condoms | Self image and the media |
| Personal Safety including road, fire, water and internet safety | Time management and revision | The Environment | Contraception in a committed heterosexual relationship | Managing the summer |
| Food and You | Risk taking | Consumer power and ethics | Sexual health | |
| First Aid | Controlled Drugs | |||