Curriculum Information
Personal Social Health and Economic (PSHE)
Subject rationale – Why study the subject? What benefits does it bring?
At Bishop Challoner Catholic College, we fundamentally believe that it is our duty to help our students become fully developed citizens who understand: how to make safe choices; what moral duty one has to society; how they can be active citizens; how to develop their careers, how to stay healthy and how to manage money. We also believe that Citizenship and Personal, Social, Health, Economic and Character education is of equal value to other academic subjects. By educating our students in these areas we can help create a better society filled with people who understand how their positive choices will help them and their society to flourish and keep them safe.
PSHE and Citizenship are taught in many different ways including through weekly lessons in year 7 and 8 as well as: assemblies; form time lessons; Personal Tutor sessions; health days; Character Week and through our pastoral systems. Mapping of PSHE and Citizenship also encompasses all other subjects because many of the statutory requirements overlap with other key curriculum areas for example healthy lifestyles is covered in PE and science as well as Citizenship, assemblies, tutor times and Character Week.
This provision has been created with the following documents in mind:
- Citizenship National Curriculum (Sep 13)
- Relationship & Sex Education & Health Education (June 19)
- Catholic Education Service – RSE Quality Standard (Jan 20)
- PSHE Association - Programme of Study for PSHE Education (Jan 20)
- Mental Health Green Paper (Jan 19)
- KCSIE (Sep 19)
- OFSTED Framework for Inspection – Social, Moral, Spiritual & Cultural Personal Development (May 19)
- Character Education (Nov 19)
KS3 curriculum overview - Year 7 |
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Citizenship Lessons | Character Week & Health Days |
Lessons focus on the following themes:
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Character Education including; confidence, courage, empathy, compassion, gratitude and optimism
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KS3 curriculum overview - Year 8 |
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Citizenship Lessons | Character Week & Health Days |
Lessons focus on the following theme:
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Character Education including: team work, resilience, trust, listening skills, eloquence, partnerships, responsibility and assertiveness
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KS3 curriculum overview - Year 9 |
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Character Week& Health Days | |
Lessons focus on the following themes:
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Revision Guidance
Citizenship lessons in year 7 and 8 include formal assessments at the end of each Citizenship topic, these will assess knowledge and
understanding of the statutory Citizenship curriculum (DfE, 2014).
Revision materials and tips on how to revise effectively will be given at the point of learning.
All other areas of PSHE and Citizenship will be assessed informally and do not require revision guidance.
KS4 curriculum overview |
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Character Week, Health Days, tutor time curriculum and assemblies |
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Lessons focus on the following themes…
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Career opportunities
A few examples of careers available that link to Citizenship:
Civil servant, police, social services, MPs, governance, parliamentary advisor, charity sector, lawyer, community support worker, medic, ambulance first responder, carer, financial advisor, accountant, Intelligence officer, data protection advisor.