Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Parents Guide to PSHE and RSHE

Learning Journeys

Year 7  Year 8  Year 9  Year 10  Year 11

Learning Journeys are constantly reviewed and updated in order to respond to local issues and areas of concern within our school community.

Further details of topics covered can be found in the Learning Journey for each year group.

Should you require further information regarding the PSHE programme, please contact Assistant Headteacher, Personal Development, Dawn Nicholson NicholsonD@ca.rklt.co.uk 

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Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) equips Crawshaw students to lead a safe, informed, and successful life whilst embracing Crawshaw’s core aims of excellence, purpose and ambition. It promotes community mindedness, tolerance, a sense of responsibility and enables pupils to identify their own aspirations for the future.

We do this by the delivery of PSHE (physical, social, health and economic) education at Crawshaw Academy. It is divided into four areas: Personal Wellbeing and Mental Health, Sex and Relationship Education, Social Education and Physical Health and Wellbeing. Through quality first teaching and resources students are provided with the skills they need to navigate life after school and keep themselves safe. Students will be encouraged to explore issues relevance to our community and have the chance to discuss their understanding of topics including budgeting, healthy relationships and the effects of drugs. The knowledge and skills gained will enable pupils to make informed decisions and recognise risks in different situations they encounter. These skills will support our pupils to pursue a wide range of careers and destinations. 

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The Curriculum is constantly reviewed and adapted to meet the needs of Crawshaw students.

This is achieved by monitoring issues in the local area, student surveys and working closely with the Safeguarding Team. As a result, the emphasis within the curriculum regularly changes. The impact of the lessons is assessed through questioning and homework. 

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How does the curriculum teach children about risk?

The PSHE curriculum is a spiral curriculum, which continuously reviewed and adapted to respond to the issues for our pupils at any one time.

In order to address the new challenges of attending secondary school pupils learn about road safety in the first few weeks of year 7.  They go onto look at coercive relationships, exploring what these might look like.  This idea is revisited in year 8 where they look at positive relationships, consent, contraception and STIs.  Further personal risks are introduced such as smoking, vaping alcohol and drugs.  Pupils are educated about self-esteem and the impact that the media can have on mental health.

These ideas are built upon in year 9 where pupils explore mental health, anxiety, depression and self-harm.  Smoking and vapour are reviewed and the dangerous of drug use introduced.  The pupils also look at pregnancy and abortion, building on topics of contraception from year 8.

In year 10 these foundations are deepened by looking at drug addiction, forced marriages, honour-based violence and acceptable behaviours.

This moves onto the study of harmful sexual behaviours, bodily autonomy and relationships and the law in year 11.

The order of lessons is adapted to respond to pupil need.  For example online safety is currently being introduced in each year group following an assembly on the topic.  This has always been taught but has been brought forward in response to information form the DSL.  Serious and organised crime was added in 2023 due to local issues.  To enrich the teaching of this, external speakers from St Giles are coming into school to talk to KS3 about weapon awareness and county lines. 

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We do this by the delivery of PSHE (physical, social, health and economic) education at Crawshaw Academy.

It is divided into six areas: Rights, Responsibilities and British Values, Celebrating Diversity and Equality, Relationships and Sex Education, Staying Safe Online and Offline, Health and Wellbeing and Life Beyond School. Through quality first teaching and resources students are provided with the skills they need to navigate life after school and keep themselves safe. Students will be encouraged to explore issues relevance to our community and have the chance to discuss their understanding of topics including budgeting, healthy relationships and the effects of drugs. The knowledge and skills gained will enable pupils to make informed decisions and recognise risks in different situations they encounter. These skills will support our pupils to pursue a wide range of careers and destinations. 

The Curriculum is constantly reviewed and adapted to meet the needs of Crawshaw students. This is achieved by monitoring issues in the local area, student surveys and working closely with the Safeguarding Team. As a result the emphasis within the curriculum regularly changes. The impact of the lessons is assessed through questioning and homework. 

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