PSHE

Subject Leader: Miss Martin - smartin@tqacademy.co.uk

AIMS OF THE PSHE DEPARTMENT

To cover the key areas of Health & Wellbeing, Relationships and Living in the Wider World:

Students know how to keep themselves healthy and safe.
Students will recognise the positive and negative relationships in their life.
Students will be confident in making career decisions and understand their place and contribution to the community.

OVERVIEW OF KEY STAGE 3 CURRICULUM

We follow the curriculum set out by the PSHE association. We cover the major topic areas of Health & Wellbeing, Relationships and Living in the Wider World. These are then built upon in KS4 in age appropriate ways resulting in a spiral curriculum.

OVERVIEW OF KEY STAGE 4 CURRICULUM

Course Title: PSHE

Course Lead: Miss Martin

What will I study?

Health & Wellbeing covers healthy lifestyles, including food choices, exercise, sleep, dental health, drugs, alcohol, first aid, emergency life-saving skills, sexual health, fertility, managing risk and personal safety.

Relationships covers positive friendships, bullying, unsafe relationships, relationships values, marriage, parenting, consent and how to safely engage in relationships online.

Living in the wider world covers economic well being, career pathways, career choices, GCSE options, work experience, digital literacy, media literacy, young people’s rights in the community and social issues such as extremism & radicalisation.

How and when will I be assessed?

Tassomai online homework includes questions about the PSHE topics covered. Students self assess their learning at the end of most sessions.

OVERVIEW OF KEY STAGE 5 CURRICULUM

Course Title: PSHE

Course Lead: Miss Martin

Course description

The KS5 programme is our last opportunity to ensure that students have real competence in the skills and strategies they’ve been developing throughout their PSHE education — and to extend the knowledge and understanding that they need to equip them for independent living and the next stage in their education or career.

What will I learn?

Core theme 1: Health and wellbeing

Mental health and emotional wellbeing
Healthy lifestyles
Managing risks and personal safety
Secual health
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco

Core theme 2: Relationships

Relationship values
Forming and maintaining respectful relationships
Consent
Contraception and parenthood
Bullying, abuse and discrimination

Core theme 3: Living in the wider world

Choices and pathways
Work and career
Employment rights and responsibilities
Financial choices
Media literacy and digital resilience

RELATIONSHIPS AND SEX EDUCATION

At Torquay Academy, we promote personal wellbeing and development through a comprehensive Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education programme. PSHE education is the curriculum subject that gives young people the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills to live safe, healthy, productive lives and meet their full potential. We provide PSHE on 3 dedicated days across the school year, in addition to that covered in other lessons and during assemblies.

RSE lessons will include teaching about: Healthy relationships, including friendships and intimate relationships; families; growing and changing, including puberty; personal hygiene; changing feelings; becoming more independent; keeping safe and consent; developing self-esteem and confidence. Pupils will also have opportunities to ask questions that help prepare them for relationships of all kinds in the modern world.

PSHE education is taught to fulfil the schools legal requirement, using age appropriate material that leads to a spiral curriculum across the years. We use guidance from the PSHE association to ensure we provide the best possible content.

The topics covered across KS3 and 4 are given below, depending on visitors, theatre groups etc some material may move between year groups, but we will still intend to cover the content below. Year 11 students have their PSHE days focussed on choices after year 11 and curriculum content. For more information please email Miss Martin.

Year	7	8	9	10
RSE sessions	Healthy relationships	Introduction to Consent	Starting out in romantic relationships	Managing unwanted attention
	Gender	Relationship values	Preventing STIs	Family life
	Sharing sexual images	Gender and sexual orientation	Having a baby	Knowing what you want in relationships
	Somethingsnotright	Introduction to contraception	Issues surrounding the use of Porn	Loss and other changes to relationships
	Relationships in the media	Inappropriate sexualised behaviour	The capacity to consent	Parenting
		Managing challenging content	Unplanned pregnancy	Sexual harassment
		Sending nude images and online safety	Online relationships
			Domestic abuse
			Exploitation
			Healthy relationships and marriage
			Contraception

Copies of the student workbooks for these sessions are available here:

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

CAREERS INFORMATION

Career opportunities and choices are covered in the living in the wonder world section. Our careers fairs and interviews with local employers expose students to a wide range of further education routes and career choices.