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Personal Development at St Benedict’s is part of everything we do. Our aim is to provide students with the knowledge, skills, dispositions and habits to promote and support them in leading healthy, happy and fulfilling adult lives. We are ensuring they are understanding of their safety, beyond the school gate.
This is experienced through our gospel values which define the schools ethos. Promoting dignity and self-worth, recognising achievement, promoting stewardship, sharing in the life of the community, encouraging truthfulness, humility, forgiveness and diligence, while ensuring a genuine concern for empathy, cooperation and understanding.
Through the teachings of Jesus Christ, we will as a school provide opportunities to learn more than before and engage in the challenges of a 21st century world with positivity, character and resilience.
The entire PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economics) curriculum, which includes Careers and Citizenship develops pupils’ knowledge, understanding, skills, relationships, and resilience to enable them to be successful, happy, and confident members of our society with ambition and belief that achievement is for all.
Our PSHE curriculum is well sequenced, following the PSHE Association guidance which is endorsed by the Government. Each session links to one of our school virtues and The British Values – PDF Download
For HRSE we meet all of the statutory guidance via the Ten:Ten programme and supplement this with our PSHE tutor time sessions and drop-down days which occur five times a year for Year 7 – 10 and four times a year for Year 11.
We build on the three key themes; Relationships, Living in the Wider World, Healthy Living throughout each. The content and activities challenge pupils thinking and understanding whilst also developing essential knowledge and skills for the modern world.
Our Careers Programme meets all the Gatsby Benchmarks and is delivered through PSHE tutor time sessions and Personal Development is included in our drop-down days, as well calendared events, and the extended curriculum for Sixth Form.
Through our PSHE Drop Down Days we deliver key knowledge and raise awareness on themes surrounding Diversity and Equality, Antibullying, Personal Safety, Online Safety, Child Exploitation, Mental Health, and Citizenship.
Some photos below from some of our recent Drop Down Days:
We understand that these PSHE topics need to be adaptable. Our curriculum is constantly being updated in response to key local and global current affairs. For details on our full curriculum please visit our Curriculum section of the website – Curriculum – what do we teach?
During Tutor Time and our PSHE lessons, we use Picture News resources.
Click on the PDF below for up to date examples of what we have been discussing:
We recognise there are different teaching and learning styles which enable effective PSHE. We acknowledge, as educators, the core education skills, which include practical skills, communication skills, decision-making skills, inter-personal skills, problem-solving skills and leadership skills. We will develop them with our pupils by:
Assessment is central to effective teaching and learning in PSHE education.
We monitor where a student is at the end of a lesson or series of lessons against where they were before the lesson(s).
This can demonstrate clear progress while also identifying what the students still need to know.
The entire PSHE curriculum develops pupils’ knowledge, understanding, skills, relationships, and resilience to enable them to be successful, happy, confident, and virtuous members of our society with ambition and belief that achievement is for all.
