What do we do?
Our PSHE curriculum aims to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and values to lead a safe, healthy and responsible life. We aim to support their personal development and prepare them to flourish in their adult lives in modern Britain.
We aim to:
- Promote physical safety, emotional well-being and healthy relationships.
- Build resilience, critical thinking, and decision-making skills.
- Ensure statutory RSHE requirements are met whilst also reflecting on national priorities.
- Adapting the curriculum to ensure the local school-based safeguarding issues are understood and targeted.
- Prepare learners for life beyond school through independent living, financial capability, and citizenship education.
How do we do it?
PSHE is embedded into the Walton Hall curriculum across all subjects. The importance of this subject for our learners is great and therefore every class in the school has a timetabled lesson for PSHE each week which is delivered by form tutors. Our PSHE curriculum is also supported with visiting speakers, performance groups and assemblies. We are supported by expert partners (e.g. NHS, RNLI, safeguarding teams) to ensure that our students have the key information and messages delivered by specialists.
It is important that our PSHE curriculum is responsive to the main issues and challenges that present to our students. Through monitoring the concern categories raised to the safeguarding team, our curriculum can be adapted and weighted to address the most common challenges for our students. Through this monitoring, it also enables us to address more individualised issues through intervention sessions to individuals and small groups, the aim being we have a proactive safeguarding curriculum.
Student voice and feedback are regularly used in this subject to refine topics and resources to best meet their individual needs.
An overview of our curriculum:
|
Year Group |
Autumn |
Spring |
Summer |
|
Year 7 |
Personal & Community Safety (water, road, rail). |
Vaping awareness, healthy habits, coping with pressure. |
Respect & Responsibility: student-led safety campaign. |
|
Year 8 |
Friendship, belonging, and emotional literacy. |
Gambling and financial impact, decision-making. |
Bereavement, coping with loss, and resilience. |
|
Year 9 |
Online crime, drugs, exploitation, and the law. |
Menstrual and gynaecological health, tackling stigma. |
Global health: antibiotic resistance and responsibility. |
|
Year 10 |
Pregnancy and maternal health. |
Parenting responsibilities and societal expectations. |
Consent, human rights, and respectful relationships. |
|
Year 11 |
Suicide prevention, resilience, and mental health. |
Bereavement and peer support revisited. |
Transition preparation and post-16 wellbeing. |
|
Post-16 |
Independent living and finance. |
Workplace readiness, substance misuse, adult health. |
Global citizenship and lifelong resilience. |
Why do we do it?
Our PSHE (RSHE) programme ensures that:
• Students can make informed, safe choices in real-world contexts.
• They demonstrate respectful relationships and understand consent.
• Pupil voice shows increased confidence in managing health, emotions, and relationships.
• Safeguarding and pastoral systems enable early intervention and effective support.
• Post-16 students leave school with a strong sense of responsibility, resilience, and citizenship.