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PSHE

The school theme for this term is 'Think Before You Act'.

Click here to download the PSHE and Citizenship Curriculum Summaries as a PDF file.       

Year 8 have been asking themselves 'What It Means To Be British' in their PSHE lessons this term.

PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) is taught at Nash House, Lower School and Year 5 by following the Nurturing Programme.  This focuses on the children’s emotional needs.  Sessions are done through Circle Time and explore the children’s own experiences, responses and feelings about a range of issues.

Years 6 have a lesson of PSHE each week with their Form Teacher.  Discussion will be on a variety of topics.  These include behaviour, bullying, first aid, puberty talk, assemblies, school council, organisational skills and topical issues.

Year 6 went to the Swattenden Centre in Cranbrook for a Team Building Exercise - a hugely enjoyable, if muddy, experience!

Year 7 have PSHE once a week, combining with Study Skills, which includes discussion, role play, video, etc, on feelings, bullying, being assertive, body awareness, drugs and issues around school which arise.

As well as being taught in class, PSHE is an active part of the hidden curriculum that promotes a caring and sharing ethos in assemblies, form periods, tutorials and everyday school-life.  It brings to the fore questions and dilemmas pupils may face.

Citizenship (and PSHE) already permeates the curriculum, but we feel that there is enough extra material to warrant a single lesson a week.  In outline, the course will look at social and moral responsibility, political literacy and community involvement.  The actual topics this year include parliament, diversity, human rights, conflict, the role of the media, law and order and other relevant topical issues.

Visiting speakers, charity work, music and sport involving the school and the local community are all part of Citizenship.  We also have a School Council which meets twice a term. 

The Chamber Choir went of a very successful tour of Prague at Easter.  Staff visited Zwickau in Germany, Prague in the Czech Republic and Poznan in Poland as part of a schools' exchange programme, the Comenius Project.