Personal, Social, Health & Citizenship
Education
The planned PSHCE programme is designed to raise students’ confidence
and help them to develop inter-personal skills, social skills
and communication skills, all of which are vital in preparing
for life beyond Millthorpe.
The school’s Health Education programme is provided
through a co-ordinated approach across many subjects. Care
is taken to match the content of the lessons to the students’ emotional
and physical development. Health issues are re-visited throughout
the programme to provide reinforcement and greater levels
of understanding at each stage of development.
Within this framework Sex & Relationships Education
forms an important element. The aim of Sex & Relationships
Education is to help our pupils to understand and cope with
the physical and emotional changes that they experience.
It promotes the knowledge, values and attitudes that will
enable them to build positive relationships with other individuals
in the society of which they will become adult members.
Much of the programme of study for Citizenship is delivered
through the PSHCE in addition to work carried out across
a range of other subjects, school activities and assemblies.
Careers Education & Guidance
A planned programme of Careers Education & Guidance
is delivered through the PSHCE programme. In the early years
the course centres around self-development and moves onto
the importance of making informed choices and the process
of decision-making. Help is given specifically in relation
to option choices. During the last two years the focus is
on helping with option choices at 16. Pupils receive talks,
presentations and advice on all routes available post-16.
This is supported by our Connexions Personal Advisers. Broad
career areas are researched and help given with interview
skills and making applications for courses and employment.
Students are introduced to the ‘World of Work’ through
the Work Experience programme with pupils spending two weeks
in a chosen placement.
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