Personal, Social & Health Education and Citizenship
Lower School Curriculum
In Lower School, PSHE is taught by form tutors during one period a week. In addition to the topics listed below, there is one Review and Reflect session every half of term.
Autumn Term
- Feelings and Relationships
- loneliness, playground behaviour.
- Health
- health and safety in school.
- Rules and Laws
- the need for rules, rights and responsibilities.
Spring Term
- Rules and Laws
- rules for living - The Ten Commandments.
- Communities
- belonging to a family, family relationships.
- Right and Wrong
- fairness and unfairness, kindness - the Good Samaritan.
Summer Term
- Rights and Responsibilities
- The Bad Little Jackal.
- Health
- feeling good, easing the stress.
- Choices
- selecting a hobby or sport, choosing a pet.
Autumn Term
- Rules and laws
- the need for school rules, enforcing the law - the role of the police.
- Choices
- making choices, choosing a present for a friend or relative.
Spring Term
- Health
- fighting disease, personal safety, road safety.
- Feelings and Relationships
- teasing and bullying, making a newspaper.
Summer Term
- Right and wrong
- moral dilemmas, fairness - King Soloman, honesty.
- Communities
- accessibility for everyone, helpful groups, what is the UK?
Autumn Term
- Feelings and relationships
- a relationship web.
- Communities
- youth groups, role models, environmental issues.
- Health
- feel good - look good, Childline, risky behaviour.
Spring Term
- Right and wrong
- fairness - sharing good fortune, forgiveness - The Prodigal Son, responding to bullying.
- Rights and responsibilities
- Jim's rights, a chat show.
Summer Term
- Rules and laws
- breaking the law - crime and punishment, disobeying the law - the case of the suffragettes.
- The global community
- Britain and the world community, wealth and poverty, a balloon debate.
- Choices
- expressing an opinion, comparing newspapers.
Upper School Curriculum
Autumn Term
One 50-minute lesson per week.
Drugs, their uses and effects.
Police Talk on personal safety;
Feelings & Relationships;
Communities;
Choices.
Spring Term
One 50-minute lesson per week.
SRE;
Right & Wrong;
Rights & Responsibilities;
Rules & Laws;
Police Talk on Rules & Laws.
Summer Term
One 50-minute lesson per week.
Democracy;
Elections & Voting;
Political Parties;
MPs and what they do;
The Global Community.
Autumn Term
One 50-minute lesson per week.
Learning to Learn;
Smoking;
Police Talk: Criminal Damage;
Drugs;
Good & active Citizens;
Knowing my Country;
School Rules;
What are Laws?
Making the Law.
Spring Term
One 50-minute lesson per week.
SRE;
Careers;
Bullying;
Police Talk on Bullying;
Breaking the Law;
Stealing and Animal Rights Protesters;
Moral Dilemmas about Laws & Law breaking.
Global Issues: Recycling
Summer Term
One 50-minute lesson per week.
Physical Health;
Political Parties;
Government & Parliament;
MPs and what they do;
Pressure Groups and their Role;
Local Government;
Caring for the Environment.
Autumn Term
One 50-minute lesson per week.
Learning to Learn;
Sex and Relationship Education;
What are our Rights?
Rights of Children and young People in the UK;
Human Rights and their Denial worldwide;
Police Talk on Crime and its Consequences;
Global Issues: organic versus free-range foods.
Spring Term
One 50-minute lesson per week.
Censorship;
The Role of Advertising;
Drugs Education;
Being old;
Police Talk on Drugs.
Summer Term
One 50-minute lesson per week.
Careers;
Physical Health;
Records of Achievement.
PSHE
This is organised on a carousel basis. Pupils are taught by their Form Teachers and Assistant Form Teachers for the majority of sessions. Lynn Duncan, Carole Adler, Leon Roberts, Crispin Cole and Helen Lawson deliver the lessons on Sex and Relationship Education, Drugs, Alcohol and Smoking. We have two sessions per year delivered by PC Yvonne Wood from the Barnet Borough Senior Schools' Involvement Programme.
