PSHE

PSHE is more than just another subject. It provides the opportunity for all pupils to develop the necessary skills and knowledge they need now and as they progress into their future. PSHE should equip pupils with the foundation they need to be able to understand, prepare for, and respond to a variety of life experiences, opportunities, and challenges.

Well taught PSHE is an invaluable tool to the school, pupils, and the wider community. Underpinning other health and wellbeing activities and efforts in school, PSHE can have a big influence on the wellbeing and experience of pupils in the shared community and so can contribute to pupils thriving in the school setting.

PSHE Delivery

How PSHE is delivered is left for individual schools to decide, and to a certain extent can be tailored to reflect the specific needs of their pupils. Broadly, the topics delivered within PSHE education include:

Physical health (including food, activity, keeping well, drugs and alcohol education, first aid, sleep, dental health)
Mental health (including helping others)
Growing and changing
Personal safety (including online safety)
Relationships and sex education
Bullying and discrimination
Media and digital literacy
Money and careers
Community and responsibility

Delivery of relationship education in primary schools, relationship and sex education for secondary schools, and health education in both primary and secondary schools, is compulsory. Some schools opt to purchase a PSHE programme, others create their own, and others do a mixture of both. One is not better than the other but how the PSHE is delivered is key, whatever method is taken. The PSHE Association provide some excellent tips and resources to help deliver PSHE in a safe, effective, and compassionate way.