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PSHE in Coundon Court
The PSHE curriculum has been designed to provide information and context to boost our students’ ability to:
- reinforce Coundon Court’s values to ‘Be Kind’ and ‘Show Respect’
- make informed judgements
- stay safe, particularly in the context of an online world
- recognise what constitutes a healthy and unhealthy relationship
- understand the significance of consent
- challenge stereotypes
- know how to promote positive mental wellbeing
We promote an environment which encourages students to be inquisitive, check their own understanding, build on prior knowledge, and explore issues that help them understand how to maintain safety for themselves, and others.
Our students become reflective learners who understand their own responsibilities towards others, as well as other people’s responsibilities towards them in building positive and safe relationships.
Strategies to support, helplines and in-house guidance are highlighted to students to ensure they have a clear direction to access further support should they require it.
Our PSHE programme has been reviewed and updated so that it is in line with the Department for Education’s Statutory Framework.
Students examine key foci including:
Relationships, Relationships & Sex Education
- Families
- Intimate and Sexual Relationships
- Respectful Relationships
- Online and Media
- Being Safe
- RSHE Policy
Health Education (including Mental Wellbeing)
- Mental Wellbeing
- Internet Safety and Harms
- Physical Health and Wellbeing
- Healthy Eating
- Drugs, Alcohol and Tabacco
- Health and Prevention
- Basic First Aid
- Changing Adolescent Bodies
Delivered primarily through the tutor programme (see page 3), each half term will include a sequence of 5 sessions covering a particular theme linked to relationships, sex and relationships, physical health, or mental wellbeing.
Additionally, five Personal Development mornings provide collapsed lessons which allow an opportunity for extended exploration and in-depth discussion/ debate around designated themes.
Alongside the tutor programme and Personal Development mornings, students have assemblies linked to National Awareness Days to expand and contextualise their knowledge of the PSHE strands such as Mental Health Awareness, Female Genital Mutilation, Holocaust Memorial Day etc. External visitors, such as the West Midlands Fire Service, deliver two factual and compelling programmes – Fire Safety (Year 8) and Road Safety (Year 10). For further details, see the supplementary Personal Development programme on page 4.
Key themes – such as consent and what constitutes a healthy/ unhealthy relationship – are revisited as part of a spiral curriculum to ensure students develop their understanding and that each new aspect is delivered at an age-appropriate time.
Strands of the PSHE curriculum are relevant and are examined and delivered within other areas of the curriculum such as: Families (RE, Sociology), Impact of drugs, alcohol and tobacco (PE, Science), Internet Safety (ICT), Respectful Relationships (English, RE), Healthy Eating (Food Technology) etc.
Personal Development Journey
You may download a copy of a student's Personal Development Journey while at Coundon Court from here:
