Intent
At Gosforth Junior High Academy we look to promote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of our pupils and prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life. Our PHSCE curriculum is planned so that all students are exposed to a series of lessons on the following themes (the development and progress of these across the key stages can also be seen in the overview below):
Growing and Changing
Physical Health
Money and Work
Personal Safety
Mental health
Bullying and Discrimination
Relationships and Sex Education
Media and Digital Literacy
Community and Responsibility
Implementation
The topics covered across the key stages are designed to help pupils reflect on key issues and ideas that occur locally and globally. The Key Stage 2 curriculum complements Key Stage 3, allowing students to explore further key issues in society or about themselves. A critical component of our PSHE education is providing opportunities for children and young people to reflect on and clarify their own values and attitudes as well as our fundamental British values, whilst exploring the complex and sometimes conflicting range of values and attitudes they encounter now and in the future.
Our weekly Personal Development lessons offer students further opportunities to discuss, share and reflect on these values and attitudes.
We use the Year 6 and Year 8 results from the ‘Children & Young People’s Health and Well-Being survey’ when designing our curriculum, to ensure that we personalise the schemes of work to support the needs of our cohorts better.
RSE and Health Education will be taught through PSHCE lessons, which are weekly for all students. A scheme of work giving details of the RSE content is set out in our RSE Policy. Although there are dedicated lessons given to the delivery of RSE, the subject matter of RSE and Health education will, from time to time, be integrated into the wider teaching of PSHCE and supported through the school assembly programme.
Impact
The topics covered across the key stages are designed to help pupils reflect on key issues and ideas that occur locally and globally. The Key Stage 2 curriculum complements Key Stage 3, allowing students to explore further key issues in society or about themselves. A critical component of our PSHE education is providing opportunities for children and young people to reflect on and clarify their own values and attitudes as well as our fundamental British values, whilst exploring the complex and sometimes conflicting range of values and attitudes they encounter now and in the future.
Our weekly Personal Development lessons offer students further opportunities to discuss, share and reflect on these values and attitudes.
We use the Year 6 and Year 8 results from the ‘Children & Young People’s Health and Well-Being survey’ when designing our curriculum, to ensure that we personalise the schemes of work to support the needs of our cohorts better.
RSE and Health Education will be taught through PSHCE lessons, which are weekly for all students. A scheme of work giving details of the RSE content is set out in our RSE Policy. Although there are dedicated lessons given to the delivery of RSE, the subject matter of RSE and Health education will, from time to time, be integrated into the wider teaching of PSHCE and supported through the school assembly programme.
Links in the wider curriculum
Relationships Education, RSE and Health Education complement several national curriculum subjects.
Science: At key stage 3, the national curriculum includes teaching about reproduction in humans; for example, the structure and function of the male and female reproductive systems, menstrual cycle, gametes, fertilisation, gestation, birth, HIV and AIDS.
PE: The national curriculum for PE aims to ensure that pupils develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities, are physically active for sustained periods of time, engage in competitive sport and activities and lead healthy, active lives.
Computing: Our Computing curriculum priorities students staying safe online ,using technology respectfully and responsibly. Students are taught to recognise acceptable/unacceptable behaviour and to identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact.