PSHCE

At North Oxfordshire Academy, Personal, Social, Health and Careers Education (PSHCE) helps students develop the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead safe, healthy and fulfilling lives and prepare for their future.

Our PSHCE curriculum includes Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE), careers education and wider personal development. It is taught through planned PSHCE sessions, including tutor time and extended PSHCE mornings, alongside relevant learning across the wider curriculum.

Our PSHCE Curriculum

Our PSHCE curriculum is carefully sequenced so that students build their knowledge and understanding as they progress through the academy. It supports students' personal, social and emotional development and helps them understand the opportunities, challenges and risks they may encounter both online and offline.

Through PSHCE, students develop the knowledge and skills they need to make informed decisions, build positive relationships and lead safe and healthy lives. The curriculum also contributes to students' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and their understanding of fundamental British values.

PSHCE is delivered through planned sessions during tutor time, extended PSHCE mornings and relevant learning across the wider curriculum.

Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE)

Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) forms part of our PSHCE curriculum. It supports students to develop the knowledge and understanding they need to build healthy relationships, make informed decisions and keep themselves and others safe.

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education are statutory elements of the secondary curriculum. Our provision covers age-appropriate learning about relationships, physical and mental wellbeing, online safety and harms, healthy lifestyles, drugs, alcohol and tobacco, health and prevention, basic first aid and the changing adolescent body.

Learning is planned to build progressively as students move through the academy and is delivered in an appropriate and sensitive way.

PSHCE also incorporates aspects of Careers, finance, citizenship, equality and diversity and British values.