PSHCEThe PSHCE curriculum fits with our whole school aims by ensuring that we deliver a curriculum which is accessible to all and ensures that each of our students will know more, remember more and understand more about how to play a positive and successful role within our society, both as a child and as an adult within the future.

At the Grange School we use the PSHE curriculum model of delivering PSHCE in three distinct themes: health and wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world.

In essence when in lessons students are learning about the following:

  • Their own personal development
  • Their place in the world
  • Their world around them

Our aim is to provide students with a knowledge of their world, locally, nationally and globally and give them confidence to tackle many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up within this. We aim to provide our young people with opportunities to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. Moreover, students are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community. We challenge students to look for opportunities to show the school values of WECAN and seek leadership opportunities within the school gates and their local community.

In Year 7 students undertake the Penn Resilience Programme (a 19 lesson course developed by the University of Pennsylvania). This is designed to help students to transition to secondary school as well as build their resilience. The model used through this course is the ABC model (Adversity, in the moment Beliefs and emotional and behavioural Consequences). This course is later reinforced in Key Stage 3 through units of mental health and emotional literacy). Furthermore students will also build their understanding of themselves and those around them by exploring health and wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world.

In Year 8 students undertake modules on being safe, health and wellbeing, making an impact, relationships and sex education and what it means to be British.

In Year 9 students undertake modules on human rights, drugs and alcohol, relationships and sex education, emotional health and careers and employability.

In the shorter 18 week programme, Year 10 students study how the law effects them, the economy including their own personal finances and topical based relevant lessons that has been tailored to the individual year group.

In the shorter 18 week programme, Year 11 students study their futures including careers and post 16 options as well as relationships and sex education and preparing for exams including revision techniques and resilience.

Impact

Whilst all learning is recorded within student books, the width of our provision means that a range of measures are used to check for impact:

  • Student Voice Surveys are used to assess knowledge of how to stay safe and emotionally confident within the school.
  • Levels of volunteering both within the school through litter picking, librarians and playground leaders, and within the community through community litter picks, choir concerts within local care homes and supporting the local foodbank.

More formal assessment of the level of knowledge they are developing will be devised throughout the 2023/24 academic year.