“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie

The Department vision of curriculum 

        
PIE is essentially the key for preparing all students for adult life, enabling them to ask important questions in a safe and appropriate environment. The subject encompasses three important core areas - PSHE, RE and Citizenship, which all have their own focus and learning outcomes.

PSHE - aims to prepare students to make independent safe decisions that will shape their personality and social and emotional development.

RE - Encourages our students to see the world through different perspectives building a tolerance for world views and develop an appreciation of the diversity surrounding them and beyond.

Citizenship - Gives student the understanding of why the world and community is shaped as it is and gives them the drive to want to make positive changes.
Together this unique combination of subjects work towards leading our students to be prepared with essential skills to enter the adult world making a positive contribution through the encouragement of questioning, the challenging of stereotypes and a mind-set hungry for success!

	Appendix 3 long term and Medium plans year by year
	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Year 7	Transition and safety Transition to secondary school and personal safety in and outside school, including first aid	Multi-faith Society Commitment, community, and identity. As well as, multi-faith society.	Developing skills and aspirations (Unifrog) Careers, teamwork and enterprise skills, and raising aspirations	Diversity Exploring British values through diversity, prejudice, equality and asylum	Introduction into Christianity The teachings of Christianity around the last supper, crucifixion and the resurrection	Building relationships Internet safety and self-worth, romance and friendships (including online) and relationship boundaries
Year 8	Drugs, alcohol and smoking Alcohol, tabaco and drug misuse and pressures relating to drug use	Fundraising and Charity Action project where they research and organise a charity event and fundraise	Developing skills and aspirations (Unifrog) Careers, teamwork and enterprise skills, and raising aspirations	Discrimination Discrimination in all its forms, including: racism, religious discrimination, disability, discrimination, sexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia	Emotional wellbeing Mental health and emotional wellbeing, including body image and coping strategies	Identity and relationships Gender identity, sexual orientation, consent, ‘sexting’, and an introduction to contraception
Year 8 (RE)	Exploration of Christianity		Exploration of Islam		Exploration of Buddhism
Year 9	Peer influence, substance use and gangs Healthy and unhealthy friendships, assertiveness, substance misuse, and gang exploitation	Religious Education   Meaning, purpose and truth. Explored through: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and humanism	Developing skills and aspirations (Unifrog) Careers, teamwork and enterprise skills, and raising aspirations	Respectful relationships Families and parenting, healthy relationships, conflict resolution, and relationship changes	Religious Education Life and Death in Christianity and Islam GSCE preparation course.	Intimate relationships Relationships and sex education including consent, contraception, the risks of STIs, and attitudes to pornography
Year 10	Mental health Anxiety, depression and Stress- coping mechanism	Religious Education Introduction to Buddhism	Careers and Pathways (Via Unifrog) Careers, teamwork and enterprise skills, and raising aspirations	Relationships Social media, peer pressure, interpreting media, social trends and coming more socially and environmentally conscious	Religious Education Life and Death in Christianity and Islam GSCE style course.	Healthy relationships STIs, C-card and practising safe sex, consent and boundaries

 

 Year 11 long term plan of topics to be covered in year 11 through DDDs

 

Building for the future Self-efficacy, stress management, and future opportunities

Next steps Application processes, and skills for further education, employment, and career progression

Communication in relationships Personal values, assertive communication (including in relation to contraception and sexual health), relationship challenges and abuse

Independence Responsible health choices, and safety in independent contexts

Families Different families and parental responsibilities, pregnancy, marriage and forced marriage and changing relationships

Relationships Pregnancy option and pornography verse reality. Receiving C card and STIs

HRSE Consultation Process and Evidence

 

In 2021 we revised our Philosophy, Identity and Ethics curriculum, making sure that it meets the new statutory government RSE (Relationship and Sex Education) guidelines. One of the key elements of the process was to develop and implement a new Healthy Relationships and Sex Education (HRSE) Policy. In addition, this was the ideal time to audit and develop our schemes of learning ensuring that they were up to date with statutory guidance, whilst meeting the needs of our pupils.

The following consultation events were held;

Parent consultation - Thursday 11^th February 2021

Parents of pupils with SEND – Thursday 4^th March 2021

KWV (Key worker and vulnerable pupils) Consultation – Wednesday 10^th February 2021

A cross section of the school community were selected for the pupil consultation on Wednesday 3^rd March 2021.

All pupils were given the opportunity to share their thoughts regarding the new curriculum during the consultation if they were not in any of the selected groups. In addition all pupils from Year 7 – 13 were also given the opportunity to complete a ‘Priority topic survey’. The feedback from this survey can be found in the attached documents.

Thank you to all the parents who took the time to support the consultation, this helps us to reinforce our pupil centred approach and ensures that parents have input into their child’s curriculum content. This feedback was so valuable in comprising our policy and ensuring that it serves a purpose for different groups across the school community. We have tried to embed this feedback into the HRSE policy whilst maintaining our PIE vision for the school and wider school community. Our pupils also contributed to this through various consultation meetings (some remote due to lockdown restrictions) and subsequently providing feedback on how they felt the curriculum needed to look and what it needed to teach them. They most definitely enjoyed sharing their ‘Pupil Voice’!

 

Our HRSE (Healthy Relationship and Sex Education Consolation) Process.

Please see attached the following processes and material that we used to help with this consolation process.    

 

• Letter to Parents – Initial invite to consolation sent to all parents
• Separate SEND Invite letter
• Letter to Pupils - cross section of the school
• HRSE Policy and appendices (long and short-term planning with subject specific data) 
• PPT presentations used in consultation and feedback of consultation results from parents and pupils
• PIE priority topic feedback (Whole school)

 

We aim to ensure that we keep you update with any important changes or initiatives that we will be holding at school. This will be done through written correspondence. Please also feel free to email me at any point if you have any questions.

groberts@heathcote.waltham.sch.uk 

 

For further guidance please see below;

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education