PSHE & RSE

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr -

At Great Oaks PSHE is taught to each group as part of our personal development program.  Lessons allow students to build their knowledge and understanding of a variety of topics which will help them to stay healthy and safe as they prepare for life and work in modern Britain.

Relationships and sex education (RSE) and Health education are an important and compulsory part of PSHE education. The government has set statutory guidance for health relationships and sex education.

PSHE helps to give students the knowledge, skills, and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, and independent lives. It aims to help them in developing personally and socially and it tackles many of the moral, social, and cultural issues that affect young people today. PSHE equips students with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions.

Key aims include:

  • To deliver a curriculum that is accessible to all and ensures that each of our students will know more, remember more, and understand more about how to play a positive and successful role within our society, both as a child and as an adult in the future.

  • To provide students with a knowledge of their world, locally, nationally, and globally, and give them the confidence to tackle many moral, social, and cultural issues that are part of growing up within this. We aim to provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society.

  • To encourage our students to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community. We challenge all of our students to look for opportunities to show the school values; Safeguarding Communities, Embracing difference, and Unlocking potential.

Careers

  • Personal development teacher
  • Social worker
  • Councillor
  • Youth worker
  • Welfare officer