PSHE
At Allerthorpe School, our PSHE Curriculum is designed with the specific needs of our learners in mind and is reflective of Allerthorpe’s aims and ethos.
PSHE makes a significant contribution to the promotion of young people’s personal and social development, enables them to know how to stay safe and healthy and teaches them how to manage their academic, personal and social lives in a positive way. Through the promotion of PSHE, skills are developed that our learners need in order for them to grow and flourish as individuals and members of society.
Studying PSHE contributes to helping children and young people build their personal identities, confidence and self-esteem. It helps them to make career choices, understand and manage their finances, and what influences their decision-making processes. PSHE enables learners to recognise their emotions and to communicate positively in a range of different scenarios.
Learners are taught and continually encouraged to respect other people, with particular regard to the protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010. Learners study a variety of topics, which develop necessary skills and attributes, including, self-esteem, resilience, risk management and teamwork.
At Allerthorpe School, we understand that PSHE lessons need to be fluid when dealing with topical situations in the lives of our learners, and current affairs that may affect them. We will not hesitate to change the content of lessons should the need arise, for example, if a learner has lost a parent we will be sensitive when discussing families. If situations arise in the playground and a learner uses discriminatory language we will use our PSHE lessons to educate learners around this topic. We actively promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs, and our Careers Curriculum encourages learners to be citizens.
Our PSHE curriculum is planned around topics of:
· Self-Awareness
· Self-Care, Support and Safety
· Managing Feelings
· Changing and Growing
· Healthy lifestyles
· The World I Live In
RSE
At Allerthorpe School, good relationships are fundamental to our ethos. Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) is lifelong learning about relationships, emotions, looking after ourselves, different families, sex, sexuality and sexual health. It involves acquiring information, developing skills and forming positive beliefs, values and attitudes. RSE has a key part to play in the personal, social, moral and spiritual development of young people.
There are five key elements that are covered in our curriculum:
· Families
· Respectful relationships including friendships
· Online and Media
· Being Safe
· Intimate and sexual relationships, including sexual health
Parents / Carers have the right to request children are removed from lessons teaching certain elements of RSE. Full information is available in the parent guides below: