PSHE

Department Staff: PSHE Teachers KS3 & KS4

Subject intent

PSHE stands for Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education.

Under the Children and Social Work Act 2017 the government committed to making Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) statutory in all secondary schools, including local authority maintained schools, academies, free schools and independent schools. As of September 2020, the Department for Education have made it statutory to teach Relationships and Sex Education in secondary schools.

Our intent is to deliver a curriculum, which is accessible to all pupils at Falconer School that ensures each of our students will understand more about how to play a positive and successful role within society.

We aim to provide students with the knowledge and skills to keep themselves happy, healthy and safe, as well as to prepare them for life and work.

Our Curriculum

Key Stage 3 overview

The Programme of study starts with Transition in year 7, establishing the ground rules, learning approaches and ethos that will guide students through their journey through secondary education.

PSHE is delivered over the three terms, split into core themes: Living in the Wider World, Relationships and Health and Wellbeing.

PSHE is an interconnected subject, which ensures comprehensive learning across all three themes, making opportunities for learning to be revisited in multiple ways and through different contexts throughout the year.

PSHE offers many cross-curricular learning, which prepares the way for students to learn and work together, which is more reflective of real life, deepening the learning for students who often ask, “When will I ever need this?”

A list of topics covered in PSHE can be found under PSHE Subject Curriculum Maps or in the Relationships and Sex Policy of Falconer School.

Key Stage 4 overview

The programme of study includes a spiral curriculum, which enables students to learn more about a subject each time the topic is reviewed or encountered, expanding their knowledge or improving their skill level.

Learning is split into three core themes: Living in the Wider World, Relationships and Health Well-being which follows up from the learning in KS3.

The year 10 curriculum includes learning about careers and work, supporting work experience and general exploration of opportunities and work related issues.

PSHE covers topics covered in other areas of learning, making strong cross-curricular links that support the learning and understanding of topics and how they relate to the real world.

A list of topics covered in PSHE can be found under PSHE Subject Curriculum Maps or in the Relationships and Sex Policy of Falconer School.