PSHE Support and Guidance

We are pleased to be able to provide a PSHE curriculum, together with associated training, for all schools within Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. This has been commissioned to meet the latest statutory requirements for PSHE. See our PSHE Curriculum and Training pages for more details.

Rise Above for Schools


Public Health England have developed a fantastic resource to help teach PSHE in secondary schools (with some being suitable for Year 6). Rise Above for Schools provides free PSHE resources that support secondary school teachers when promoting positive health, wellbeing and resilience among young people aged 11 to 16.

The resource has been awarded the PSHE Association Quality Mark for effective practice in PSHE teaching.

By including video content co-created by young people for young people, Rise Above for Schools is designed to help you to facilitate open and informed conversations with your students on a range of sometimes challenging areas of PSHE education.

 

Promoting fundamental British values as part of SMSC in schools

This is non-statutory advice from the Department for Education. Maintained schools have obligations under section 78 of the Education Act (2002) which requires schools, as part of a broad and balanced curriculum, to promote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society. This guidance relates specifically to the requirements to actively promote fundamental British values in schools and explains how this can be met through the general requirement in the 2002 Act.

This advice is primarily for: headteachers and other staff of maintained schools who are responsible for curriculum matters, and governing bodies

The main points of this advice are to make clear:

  • that maintained schools should promote pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development;
  • what is expected of schools in promoting fundamental British values; and
  • how this aligns with schools’ duty to promote SMSC.

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Protecting Children at Risk of Harm from Radicalisation or From Being Taken into Conflict Zones

The Department for Education has updated statutory guidance – Working Together to Safeguard Children and Keeping Children Safe in Education – to make it clear that radicalisation is a safeguarding risk. Working Together explicitly states that Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) should publish a threshold document and that they “should agree with the local authority and its partners the levels for the different types of assessment and services to be commissioned and delivered.” The Department has written to LSCBs advising them to consider referring explicitly to radicalisation in their threshold documents.

For the most current information relating to this subject, please go to the Department for Education website.

 

Terrorist Discussion Advice

Whilst normally all learning in PSHE education is built into a planned progressive programme, there are times when we may need to respond immediately to unforeseen events, such as terrorist attacks. Young people may wish to talk about such attacks and the context for this discussion may be in PSHE education lessons. It is impossible to create a ‘one size fits all’ lesson plan that will be appropriate for all such events but this framework from the PSHE Association might be helpful in structuring discussion.

 

Barnardo's Faith Toolkit

Schools can receive support from Barnardo’s for their work helping LGBTQ children and young people who are being bullied.The Barnardos Faith Toolkit will give schools and local communities the tools to effectively address homophobic, bi-phobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying, and support young people.The resource includes views from all the major religions, as well as an information pack with background to the issue, advice sheets and personal stories from the LGBTQ community. Barnardo’s Positive Identities Service developed the toolkit with local schools, faith, gender and sexual orientation groups.The toolkit is available in a variety of ways – further information is available from Yasmeen Sharif, Children’s Services Manager on 07785 252603.