PSHE education is a planned programme of learning through which children and young people acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to manage their lives. As part of a whole school approach, PSHE develops the qualities and attributes students need to thrive as individuals, family members, members of society and beyond the classroom as they approach adult life.
PSHE is delivered across the four year groups by tutors, led by Heads of Year. We follow guidance and recommendation from The PSHE Association to deliver the following broad units of work.
Here at Minehead Middle School we tailor PSHE lessons to students needs and use them to help inform our students with the best information that will keep them safe and healthy. We respond to issues that may arise in the news and look at local, national and global topics giving our students the opportunity to voice concerns and feel empowered to make a difference to the world in which they live.
PSHE content is also delivered through assembly themes and through collaboration with external agencies, including,
RSE Curriculum
Since September 2020, it is a statutory requirement that all schools in England and Wales teach Relationship and Sex Education as a fundamental part of the curriculum. We are required to teach Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) as part of our curriculum for our KS3 children and Relationship and Health Education for our KS2 children. High quality RSE help create a safe school community in which our pupils can grow, learn and develop positive, healthy behaviour for life.
Statement of Intent
We define Relationships and Sex Education as the curriculum used to encompass many aspects of the Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) curriculum as well as contributing to promoting the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils. Our school policy on RSE is based on the Department for Education (DfE) Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education (2019).
The DfE provides the following definition in its guidance:
‘It is lifelong learning about physical, moral and emotional development. It is about the understanding of the importance…for family life, of stable and loving relationships, respect, love and care. It is also about the teaching of sex, sexuality and sexual health. It is not about the promotion of sexual orientation or sexual activity.’
The intent of our Relationships and Sex Education is to help and support young people through their physical, emotional and moral development. A successful programme, firmly embedded in PSHE, will help young people learn to respect themselves and others and move with confidence from childhood, through adolescence into adulthood.
Our programme aims to provide the basis for an ongoing RSE curriculum that builds on the children's prior learning and then starts in Year 5 and continues through to Year 8. It will assist children to:
When developing our RSE curriculum, we consulted parents, children and governors on our RSE policy and planned provision in years 5 to 8.
Please read the following documents that help explain the changes to the curriculum.
Due to imminent national changes to RSE policy, documentation is under review.