PSHE

PSHE and Careers Overview

Through the formal and semi-formal curriculum, PSHE has a directed teaching time of 1 hour. There is also discreet times of teaching PSHE such as circle time, reflection time, Mental health and wellbeing sessions, playtimes, mealtimes and transitions. 

The PSHE curriculum is a continuous spiral that becomes wider at the top with the more skills and knowledge the learner experiences. As they get older, the spiral widens and the skills become broader and more explicit. 

PSHE is divided into three core themes across the whole school (within formal and semi-formal curriculums). These are: Living in the Wider World, Relationships and Health and Wellbeing – these are derived from the PSHE association and encompass all of our teaching values and expectations. Mental Health sessions happen daily. 

Semi-formal curriculum – taken from the ‘PSHE planning framework for pupils with SEND’. This has been created for pupils with SEND and still encompasses the statutory requirements for RSE, as in line with the Government statutory guidelines changing as of September 2020.  

The Semi – Formal curriculum focuses on providing pupils with ‘sticky skills’ and ‘sticky knowledge’ best preparing them for their life post Vale. We focus on the key skills and knowledge our pupils need to help keep them safe in the community and prepare them for adult life.    

Formal curriculum – is derived from the program of study for PSHE education KS1-5. This is aimed at mainstream schools and these areas are appropriate for our formal learners. This encompasses the statutory RSE outcomes for September 2020. 

The PSHE curriculum will work closely with the computing curriculum to ensure e-safety is consistently covered throughout pupils learning journey to triangulate knowledge and skills providing our pupils with a bank of tools to remain safe in an ever changing  

The curriculum also allows for cross – curricular, flexibility, and lends itself to an adaptable curriculum to ensure that topics can be moved to allow for contextualised safeguarding areas to be given main priority.    

Overview of Careers  

The 6^th Form and Y9-11 has a strong focus on Careers which is planned for delivered through the Talentino program. The Job Enterprise Database (JED program) is used to look at jobs and careers and informs Work Experience for those students for whom this is appropriate. Other students will either have some work experience within the school itself or as part of a World of Work week. The 6^th Form also has access to a college link with Pershore college which all 6^th Formers are able to do. To contribute to the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme and the  

In KS3, Careers is delivered as its own separate entity but also through the PSHE curriculum, in a two-year rolling programme. In PSHE it comes under the umbrella of ‘Work in our Community (Careers and Work). Also, in KS3, Careers is delivered through Work Related Learning under the following headings, again on a 2-year programme: 

Work Skills: Interviews 

Careers Profile: My Skills 

Choices and Transitions 

Life After School (World of Work) 

Goals for the Future.  

In KS1 and KS2, Careers will be delivered through role play and free play; employer encounters and PSHE to allow pupils an insight into the community around them goals for the future.   

Appendix A  

Semi-formal Curriculum 

Formal Curriculum