Implementation

• Stockport Academy teaches PSHE within the timetable, once a fortnight for KS3 by qualified staff. 

• KS4 have 1 day a year off-timetable where all students take part in range of PSHE workshops. Workshops are delivered by qualified external agencies including Respect Me, BROOK, Barclays Bank and Proud Trust.  

• Trips have included Bury Fire Safety Centre looking at keeping safe in the home and a theatre performance of ‘En ger land’ looking at identity. 

• Science, PE, Food Technology, Drama, Performing Arts and Dance delivering aspects of PSHE to KS3 and 4 within lessons, weekly assemblies, daily co-curricular clubs and a range of enterprise days so students can further develop their ‘Future Me’.  

You can find an overview of our PSHE programme here.

Our off-timetable days provide students with opportunities and experiences beyond the curriculum they study, developing students as a whole; building confidence, happiness, health and a desire to discover new experiences. Students are given knowledge to enable them to make the right decision for them and allow your child the opportunity to try new things they may have never had the chance to before.  

These areas of learning are taught within the context of family life taking care to ensure that there is no stigmatisation of children based on their home circumstances (families can include single parent families, LGBT parents, families headed by grandparents, adoptive parents, foster parents/carers amongst other structures) along with reflecting sensitively that some children may have a different structure of support around them (for example: looked after children or young carers). 

Impact

• All children understand the importance of PSHE, SMSC and British Values and the effects it can have on life in and out of school, this is evident through termly pupil voice, parental feedback and PSHE coverage folder monitoring by the curriculum leader.
• Tackles barriers to learning, raise aspirations, and improve the life chances of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged pupils.
• By the time they leave our academy, personal, social and health education (PSHE) enables our learners to become healthy, independent and responsible members of a society. It helps them understand how they are developing personally and socially, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up.
• Our curriculum allows pupils to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. Our children are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.

“I enjoyed learning about issues that I didn’t know existed so I could be more mindful”

“The workshops were fun and useful, my favorite part of the day was learning about mindfulness”

“When I got to learn about first aid and how to take care of a bleeding nose and it helped me to be the best I could be”