What is the subject about?
Learning PSHE and citizenship helps pupils develop as individuals in a wider society. Pupils learn to understand themselves physically, emotionally, socially and sexually and to understand their relationships with others.
PSHE, Citizenship and Careers Education offer’s all pupils’ opportunities to:
- Make choices and decisions
- Develop personal autonomy by having a degree of responsibility and/or control over their lives
- Be aware of self and his/her role in society.
- Citizenship and Respect for the Environment
- Independent Living and Career Education
- Healthy Living and Drugs Education
- Relationships and Sex Education
Support at home would be helpful:
- Read the newspapers or to watch the news.
- Discus the topics covered in the lessons each week.
- To complete homework.
Programme of study at Key Stage 4
Citizenship and respect for the environment
- Take part in discussion - topical, important to individual
- Use behaviour appropriate to setting
- Take responsibility for self and others
- Explore and develop own role in community
- Take an active role concerning environmental issues
- Awareness of societies rules
- Make decisions about group rules and activities
- Circle time skills
- Independent Living (inc. self awareness/esteem) and Careers Ed
Self awareness, self esteem and self expression
- Self advocacy
- Increase independence and assertiveness in various settings
- Individual development in dressing skills, toileting skills and feeding
- Following instructions and taking initiative
- Making meals and hot drinks with increased independence
- Develop shopping skills and the use of money
- Banking and budgeting
- Develop high self esteem and positive self image
- Be aware of own needs, interests, values and attitudes
- Discuss which subjects and skills you are good at
- Assess capabilities realistically
- Understand the terms "career" and "transition planning"
- Explain careers ideas clearly to those who can help
- Show initiative, enterprise, self advocacy, negotiation skills, enjoy new challenges, willingness to change and time management skills
- Explore career options and use appropriate careers info
- use appropriate decision making strategies
- Plan for transitions and identify action needed to achieve goals
- Application, interview, rights and responsibility
- Internal Work Experience
Healthy Living and Drugs Ed
- Empathic handling and correct positioning
- Implementation of therapeutic intervention
- Effects of and attitudes to alcohol, drugs and tobacco on the body and behaviour
- Legality
- Sport, leisure and exercise
- Promotion of healthy eating
- Daily hygiene routines
- Use and abuse of medicines
- School rules relating to medicines, drugs, alcohol and ‘
- Safety and danger relating to syringes
- Express concerns and find appropriate help
- Choices, decisions, consequences and opinions
- Saying "no"
Relationships and Sex Ed
- Safety
- Hygiene - pride in appearance, menstruation, S.T.I
- Appropriate behaviour
- Relationships - family & friends, sexual, formal
- Where to go for help/advice
- Human reproduction
- Privacy, individual choices and feelings
- Masturbation
- Contraception
- Child birth and child development
- aware of the right thing to do
- Celebrate and develop self as member of society