Working Within PSHE Curriculums

We understand that PSHE and RSHE guidance develops regularly, updated and informed partly through Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, government policy and new educational theories. 

In responding to these updates, and maintaining a relevant curriculum that can equip students with the tools and understanding they need to become young adults, we understand that some topics can be contentious. 

It is our firm belief that students should have the chance to engage with life beyond the classroom. One of our key values, creativity, informs our approach to identity, inclusion and injustice; we believe in recognising the existence of different experiences and engaging with them open-mindedly. 

Our role is not to tell students what is right or wrong, but to encourage empathy, an understanding of how injustice manifests itself and the tools to self-reflect and personally develop. 

For that reason, it is important to us that difficult conversations are not shied away from. These discussions are challenging, but that only makes them more valuable.