PD/PHSE
The PSHE (RSE) Curriculum at Huxlow Academy seeks to provide a curriculum accessible by all and is shaped to the context of our Academy. The curriculum is structured to enhance our students’ personal growth, emotional wellbeing, appreciation of our British Values and Citizenship, as well as promoting Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development. At Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 (Years 10 - 13), statutory RE is also delivered through this programme.
The Curriculum teaches the skills needed to help students navigate opportunities, responsibilities, and experiences of life. It develops the students’ knowledge and understanding of health and wellbeing, relationships, living and contributing to the wider world. It equips students to become confident and resilient learners to take a positive, active role in a diverse society. It provides students with the skills needed to stay safe within the community, as well as a safe environment within the Academy where they’re able to discuss a range of topics while enhancing SMSC development and cultural capital.
Developing from Year 7-Year 13, our spiral curriculum is age-appropriate whilst challenging, with topics developed and built upon to increase powerful knowledge.
Our PSHE spiral curriculum is embedded within Personal Development which is delivered throughout everyday life at the Academy and is underpinned by our Huxlow Values of Ambition, Pride and Respect.
This term, we will be studying -
YEAR 7 - Powerful knowledge
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
1. What is mental health?
2. How can I maintain positive emotional well-being?
3. What is anxiety?
4. What is it like to live with anxiety?
5. How can you deal with anxiety and is it normal?
6. What are healthy strategies to deal with anxiety?
7. Assessment 1 and reflection
YEAR 8 - Powerful knowledge
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
1. How can I maintain positive emotional well-being?
2. What is depression?
3. What is it like to live with depression?
4. What can be the negative impacts of depression?
5. Why does social media affect mental health?
6. What needs to be done in the UK to support mental health?
7. Assessment 1 and reflection
YEAR 9 - Powerful knowledge
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
1. What is mental health and how do I seek help?
2. How can I maintain positive emotional well-being?
3. What is self-harm and what are the causes?
4. What are eating disorders?
5. What is it like to live with an eating disorder?
6. Revision and AP1.
7. What are the suicide statistics and what can we do to reduce this? (+ men’s mental health)
YEAR 10 - Powerful knowledge
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
1. Can tattoos and piercings be dangerous?
2. How can we manage social worries and conflict successfully?
3. What is binge drinking, what are the risks and why do people still do it despite the risks?
4. Why is social media considered a negative influence today?
5. How much is too much screen time and why does it matter?
6. Why do we need sleep and how does sleep deprivation affect us?
7. Assessment and reflection
YEAR 11 - Powerful knowledge
LIVING IN THE WIDER WORLD
1. Why is gambling so addictive and how do online gambling sites us in?
2. What impact can debt have and how can I avoid it?
3. How do we budget and what are the benefits?
SIXTH FORM - Powerful Knowledge
HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS
- Understanding the values that should apply to a healthy relationship.
- To understand consent and the moral and legal responsibilities that someone has.
- To understand the emotional, physical, social and legal consequences of failing to respect others’ right not to give or to withdraw consent.
- Recognising different forms of abuse and what an unhealthy relationship can look like.
- Recognising the signs of sexual abuse and exploitation, and how to report this.
- RS Global relationships – Honour killings