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PSHE & Citizenship

Subject PSHE & Citizenship
Contact Mrs A Watts

Overview

Personal, Social, Health, Economic and Citizenship education enables students to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy and safe, prepare for life and work in modern Britain and play a full and active part in society as responsible citizens.

Our programme of Study for PSHE and Citizenship education aims to develop skills and attributes such as resilience, self-esteem, risk-management, team working and critical thinking.

Core themes are explored in a number of ways :

  1. Through timetabled lessons
  2. Embedded into delivery across curriculum subjects
  3. As part of our assembly schedule
  4. During Enrichment Week (for KS3 students)
  5. During Cultural Enrichment Days for all key stages

At Key Stage 3, PSHE and RE are delivered as part of the World Views and Personal Development curriculum.
In years 7 and 8 students have 2 hours of RE and 1 hour of PSHE.
In Year 9 student have 2 hours of RE and 1 hour of PSHE on their timetable.

At Key Stage 4, students have 2 hours per fortnight of PSHE and Core RE combined in Year 10 and 1 hour per fortnight in Year 11 .

Citizenship Themes PSHE Themes
Democracy and political systems Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing
Law and Justice Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)
Finance / community Living in the Wider World

KEy staGe 3 

Overview - Citizenship

At Key Stage 3 students learn about:

  • the development of the political system of democratic government in the United Kingdom, including the roles of citizens, Parliament and the monarch
  • the operation of Parliament, including voting and elections, and the role of political parties
  • the precious liberties enjoyed by the citizens of the United Kingdom
  • the nature of rules and laws and the justice system, including the role of the police and the operation of courts and tribunals
  • the roles played by public institutions and voluntary groups in society, and the ways in which citizens work together to improve their communities, including opportunities to participate in school-based activities
  • the functions and uses of money, the importance and practice of budgeting, and managing risk.

Overview - PSHE

At Key Stage 3 students learn about:

  • Personal identity
  • Healthy lifestyles
  • Keeping safe
  • Rights and responsibilities
  • Economic wellbeing
  • Employability and enterprise
  • Career progression
  • Healthy relationships
  • RSE
  • Relationship safety
  • Valuing difference

Curriculum Content

Assessment Criteria

Please find below the assessment benchmarks for PSHE. A child progresses across the grid when they demonstrate a deeper knowledge and wider range of skills in each assessment carried out during KS3 and 4.

Key stage 4
 

Overview - Citizenship

At Key Stage 4 students learn about:

  • parliamentary democracy and the key elements of the constitution of the United Kingdom, including the power of government, the role of citizens and Parliament in holding those in power to account, and the different roles of the executive, legislature and judiciary and a free press
  • the different electoral systems used in and beyond the United Kingdom and actions citizens can take in democratic and electoral processes to influence decisions locally, nationally and beyond
  • other systems and forms of government, both democratic and non-democratic, beyond the United Kingdom
  • local, regional and international governance and the United Kingdom’s relations with the rest of Europe, the Commonwealth, the United Nations and the wider world
  • human rights and international law
  • the legal system in the UK, different sources of law and how the law helps society deal with complex problems
  • diverse national, regional, religious and ethnic identities in the United Kingdom and the need for mutual respect and understanding
  • the different ways in which a citizen can contribute to the improvement of his or her community, to include the opportunity to participate actively in community volunteering, as well as other forms of responsible activity
  • income and expenditure, credit and debt, insurance, savings and pensions, financial products and services, and how public money is raised and spent.

 Overview - PSHE

At Key Stage 4 students learn about:

  • Personal identity
  • Healthy lifestyles
  • Keeping safe
  • Rights and responsibilities
  • Economic wellbeing
  • Employability and enterprise
  • Career progression
  • Healthy relationships
  • RSE
  • Relationship safety
  • Valuing difference

Curriculum Content

World Views and Personal Development Curriculum Map download

 Assessment Criteria

Please find below the assessment benchmarks for PSHE. A child progresses across the grid when they demonstrate a deeper knowledge and wider range of skills in each assessment carried out during KS3 and 4.

KEy staGe 5 

Overview 

At Key Stage 5, students have 1 hour per fortnight of PSHE / Personal Development on their timetable. This is a core component of our Sixth Form curriculum. 

Curriculum Content

enrichment opportunities
 

During the academic year, throughout curriculum subjects and via extra-curricular activities, students are provided with a wide range of enrichment opportunities to enhance their personal development. All students take part in days off timetable for cultural/enrichment activities, designed to deepen their knowledge and understanding of the Citizenship and PSHE themes and to develop essential skills for life beyond the classroom including careers and the opportunity to gain work experience.

Enrichment Days Day Plan
Cultural Enrichment Day: 20th October 2022 download
Cultural Enrichment Day: 17th March 2023  
Cultural Enrichment Day: 12th July 2023  
Cultural Enrichment Day: 13th July 2023  
Cultural Enrichment Day: 14th July 2023  

british values 

At Queen's Park High School, we ensure that all of our students understand the fundamental British Values that underpin what it is to be a citizen in a modern and diverse Great Britain, valuing our community and celebrating diversity of the UK.

The values are: Democracy, Rule of Law, Respect and Tolerance and Individual Liberty.

Throughout the academic year, students will gain:

  • an understanding of how citizens can influence decision-making through the democratic process;
  • an appreciation that living under the rule of law protects individual citizens and is essential for their wellbeing and safety;
  • an understanding that there is a separation of power between the executive and the judiciary, and that while some public bodies such as the police and the army can be held to account through Parliament, others such as the courts maintain independence;
  • an understanding that the freedom to choose and hold other faiths and beliefs is protected in law;
  • an acceptance that other people having different faiths or beliefs to oneself (or having none) should be accepted and tolerated, and should not be the cause of prejudicial or discriminatory behaviour.
  • an understanding of the importance of identifying and combatting discrimination.

protected characteristics - Equality Act 2010 

What does this mean?

Public bodies, including schools, are covered by the public sector equality duty in the Equality Act 2010 and the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011.

At Queen’s Park High School,  we take our obligation very seriously and ensure that all our students can take part as fully as possible in every aspect of school life. We identify any barriers to learning that they may have and then work to overcome these so that each child can fulfil their potential.

We strive to:

  • Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other conduct prohibited by the Equality Act 2010
  • Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it
  • Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it.

Queen’s Park High School is committed to ensuring equality of provision throughout the school community.

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The PSHE Centre 

The 'PSHE' Centre is a 'one stop shop' for students and parents to access resources and wesbites that link to the PSHE Curriculum. To access the information please click on the link below:

Relationship & sex education (RSE) Resources  

Abortion handout download
Condom handout download
Contraception - the male condom (KS3) handout download
Contraception - the pill (KS3) handout download
Contraception handout download
Consent Knowledge Organiser (KS3) download
Types of Family (KS3) handout download
LGBT handout download
Period handout download
Pornography handout download
Puberty download
STIs handout download
LGBTQAI Terminology Guide download
PSHE Knowledge Organisers (for parents) download
Time to Challenge - Year 7 (CSASS - Chester Sexual Abuse Support Service) download

Useful Websites to support learning 

General information

Drugs, smoking and alcohol education

Discrimination and prejudice

Safety

Mental Health

Finance and Careers

Bereavement

Sexual Abuse

Self Harm