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BackAt Tabor Academy we deliver PSCHE through tutor times. The aim is to ensure that the PSCHE programme helps students to lead confident and healthy lives both as individuals and as members of the wider community while developing their spiritual, moral, social and cultural awareness.
PSCHE gives students the opportunities to reflect on their experiences and how they are developing. It helps them to understand and responsibly manage a wide range of relationships as they get older and to show respect for diversity and differences between people.
Through work in lesson time and a wide range of activities beyond the curriculum including outside speakers, students gain practical knowledge and skills to help them live healthy lives and to deal with the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues they face as they approach adulthood.
Sex and relationship education is taught to all students at key stages throughout the year. Students are also aware of current issues in the news and PSCHE in the school adapts to ensure all topics are relevant and up to date for each year group. As a result, PSCHE seeks to help students to:
- Develop confidence, independence, responsibility and a socially moral identity
- Make the most of their abilities, in school and in the outside world
- Develop healthy, safe lifestyles and friendships
- Develop good relationships and to respect the differences between people
- Develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that will help them to become effective and active members of their community
Exemplar units that are followed in various year group are:
- Year 7– Bullying, Healthy Lifestyles, Community, Families, Values, Mental Health, FGM, SRE and Drugs Education, awareness of Social Media, Radicalisation, Careers, Body Changes and Puberty.
- Year 8– Safety, Respect, Relationships, Global Politics, Crime, awareness of Social Media, Online safety, Stereotyping, SRE and Drugs Education, FGM, Prevent, Puberty & Relationships including Peer on Peer relationships.
- Year 9– Relationship, Family, Safety, Options, SRE and Drug and Vaping Education, Consent, the law, awareness of Social Media, Careers education, Contraception and Sexually transmitted infections, mental health, radicalisation, Mental Health and Body Image, county lines, awareness of Peer-on-Peer relationships and abuse.
- Year 10– Safety, County lines, Rights and Responsibilities, SRE and Drugs Education, Relationships, Consent, the law, FGM, Forced Marriage, Pregnancy, awareness of Social Media, consent, Contraception and Sexually transmitted infections, mental health and wellbeing, Human rights and Careers education.
- Year 11– Revision skills, Interview techniques, Careers education for post 16, Stress Management, awareness of Social Media, Forced Marriage, SRE, Consent and Drugs Education, Peer on Peer abuse and relationship awareness, Mental health and coping strategies, Radicalisation and Human rights.
- Year 12– Relationships – safe and unsafe relationships, SRE and Drugs Education, Body image, Health and wellbeing including mental health and coping techniques, SRE, Diversity,Consent & the law, Gender & Sexuality, Drugs & Alcohol, Weapons, Stop & Search, First Aid, Road Safety, awareness of Social Media, Radicalisation, Financial Systems, Tax, Democracy & Political systems, Human Rights, Legal Systems and Careers.
- Year 13– Relationships including peer on peer abuse in relationships, Managing relationships safely, Health and wellbeing including mental health and coping techniques, Employee Rights, Stress Management, Exam Techniques. SRE and Drugs Education, Body image, SRE, Consent & the law, Gender & Sexuality, Drugs & Alcohol, Weapons, Stop & Search, radicalisation, First Aid, Road and Driving Safety, Financial Systems, Tax, Stocks & Currency, Democracy & Political systems, Human Rights, Legal Systems, student finance and budgeting.
- In Key Stages 3 and 4, these topics are covered in 15-minute sessions at the end of the day.
At Key Stage 5, these topics are also covered in 15-minute sessions at the end of the day.
This is all done in the knowledge that Tabor Academy produces happy, healthy students with an insight into the world they live in.
For more information about the PSCHE programme of study please visit the PSCHE association website.
PSCHE and British Values
The notion of British Values is also incorporated within and embedded within the curriculum. The five part definition of British Values is:
- Democracy
- The rule of Law
- Individual liberty
- Mutual Respect
- Tolerance of different faiths and beliefs.
With these values in mind, we aim for students to leave Tabor Academy as well-rounded individuals, promoting the very strong British values of respecting other students of different faiths and races. They are equipped to deal with life in modern Britain. This helps them to understand and responsibly manage a wide range of relationships as they get older and to show respect for diversity.
The concept of democracy is woven into the programme with elections being held for the Student Councils and the School Parliament with the students respecting the final decisions that are made. . The school council elects students through a democratic election in each tutor group.
In addition to the curriculum lessons, we also have a busy schedule of assemblies, workshops, trips and activities that take place to enhance our student’s personal development whilst they are at Tabor Academy.
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