PSHE

Curriculum Intent

In PSHE education we aim to ensure that Oakwood Park students know how to be safe and healthy and how to manage their academic, personal and social lives in a positive way.  We aim to equip them with the tools they need to make informed choices when faced by difficult real-world situations. Through a thorough and enriched PSHE curriculum student academic achievement will also benefit from developing resilience, mindfulness techniques and healthy relationships.

Personal, Social, Healthcare, Economic Education develops the knowledge, skills and attributes all pupils need: from mental health and wellbeing to understanding the importance of staying safe online, healthy and safe relationships, making sense of media messages, challenging extreme views and having the skills and attributes to negotiate a potentially volatile labour market. 

Oakwood Park follows the PSHE Association programme of study which covers three core themes – ‘health and wellbeing’, ‘relationships’ and ‘living in the wider world’ from the foundation years up to A level. PSHE has a spiral curriculum, enabling students to build a greater depth of knowledge and understanding throughout their time at OPGS.

Our enrichment programme provides students with the opportunity to engage with speakers from the wider community to improve their own health and wellbeing. Each year group has visits from key organisations such as Kent Police and Fire Service, sexual health advice from the NHS and Metro Charity, as well as Drugs, Alcohol and Mental Health support from the Kenward Trust, Kooth, Hope not Hate, Mind and Beyond Equality, also all provide an invaluable service to the students of OPGS. Through these close links students learn where to go for help and support if they ever need it.

For further information on statutory RSE please visit the DfE parent FAQs website: Relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education: FAQs - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Foundation Years: Year 7 and 8

Year 7

  Transition and Safety

  • Transition to secondary school
  • Maintaining friendships
  • Growth Mindset
  • Emergency Situations
  • Managing Personal Safety

Developing Skills and Aspirations

  • Skills and Employment types
  • Career progression (inc. Challenging stereotypes)
  • Your career aspirations

Diversity

  • Rights and responsibilities
  • Stereotypes and Prejudice
  • Bullying
  • Internet safety and Risks online

Health and Puberty

  • Diet and Exercise
  • Healthy choices / managing negative influences
  • Alcohol, Tobacco, The Law
  • Peer Pressure
  • Puberty,
  • CSE
  • FGM
  • Being responsible for your body

Building Relationships

  • Different Types of Relationships
  • Positive relationships
  • Conflict resolution
  • Real Life Relationships
  • Self esteem
  • Romantic Relationships
  • Family life

Economic wellbeing

  • Needs and Wants
  • Consumer Rights
  • Ethical Decisions
  • Spending, saving and budgeting

Year 8

 Health and Wellbeing:

  • Self-esteem
  • Body Image
  • Mental Health
  • Resilience
  • Drugs and Alcohol

Community and Careers:

  • Civil Responsibilities
  • Democracy
  • Government
  • MPs
  • Laws

Discrimination:

  • Rights in the UK
  • Challenging Rights
  • Discrimination
  • Discrimination and Intolerance
  • Migration
  • Group Think
  • Standing Up

Relationships:

  • Recognising Emotions
  • Partners
  • Family/ Friend
  • Relationships
  • Sex in the Media
  • Sexual Orientation
  •  Consent

Sex Education:

  • Contraception
  • Sexual Health
  • Teenage Pregnancy

Digital Literacy:

  • E-Safety
  • Cyber Bullying
  • Grooming
  • Consumer Rights
  • Advertising
  • Financial Decisions
  • Bank Accounts

Keystone Year: Year 9

 Peer influence, substance use and gangs:

  • Peer Pressure
  • Gangs
  • Knife Crime
  • Risks
  • Impact of Drugs
  • Addiction

Respectful Relationships:

  • Family Conflicts
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Homelessness

Healthy Lifestyles:

  • Work-Life Balance
  • Eating Habits
  • Eating Disorders

Intimate Relationships:

  • Equality Act
  • Trans stereotyping
  • LGBT
  • Pressures of Sex
  • Unplanned Pregnancy
  • Sharing explicit images

Intimate Relationships:

  • Equality Act
  • Trans stereotyping
  • LGBT
  • Pressures of Sex
  • Unplanned Pregnancy
  • Sharing explicit images

Employability skills:

  • Skills
  • Enterprising

GCSE: Years 10 and 11

Year 10

 Healthy Lifestyles:

  • Mental Health

 Economic Wellbeing:

  • Gambling

Relationships:

  • Pornography and Sexting

Healthy Lifestyles:

  • Role Models

Healthy Lifestyles:

  • Extremism

Healthy Relationships:

  • Modern Families

Year 11

Healthy Lifestyles:

  • Stress

Relationships:

  • Abuse

Healthy Lifestyles:

  • Cancer

Relationships:

  • Fertility and Abortion

A Level: Years 12 and 13

Year 12

Health and Wellbeing:  

Mental Health and Sixth Form life 

Testicular cancer 

Sexual Health and Contraception 

Driving Safely 

Drugs and Alcohol: making informed choices.  

Fertility and Menopause 

 

Living in the Wider World 

Weekly news briefings 

Weekly debates on current issues 

Know your Legal Rights 

Careers Evening 

Faculty Careers Talks 

IAG interviews 

UCAS applications 

Apprenticeship Fair 

Interview Skills 

CV writing 

LinkedIn tutorials 

Voter Registration 

Mock election 

Visit from Local MPs.  

 

Relationships 

An ethnically diverse OPGS Sixth Form 

LGBT pride within OPGS Sixth Form 

A mixed gender OPGS Sixth Form 

Pornography and Media 

Consent and the Law 

Reproductive Rights 

Year 13

Health and Wellbeing 

Living Independently (cooking, finance, healthcare, managing your mental health at university) 

Mental Health and exams. 

 

Living in the Wider World 

Weekly news briefings 

UCAS IAG 

Apprenticeship IAG 

Interviews 

 

Relationships 

Positive relationships and recognising abuse  

Strategies for managing dangerous situations or relationships 

 

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