Prospectus-PHSE

The Personal, Social & Health Education and Citizenship programmes are designed to help students to understand adolescent development and human relationships.

 

Sex Education is taught as an integral part of the curriculum. The biological aspects are taught as part of Science National Curriculum in KS3 and KS4.  This covers reproduction in humans and their well being during early development.  In addition, physical and emotional changes during adolescence are studied with the need to have a responsible attitude to sexual behaviour.  Moral issues are addressed within the Personal, Social & Health Education programme.

 

Care is taken to ensure that discussions are always set within a moral context, with proper emphasis on the importance of family life, enabling students to make informed decisions and understand the need to develop a positive attitude to relationships.  Parents have the right to withdraw their children from some or all of the sex education curriculum, except that which is required as part of the National Curriculum Science.  If parents are considering exercising this right they may view teaching materials and discuss their thoughts and concerns with an appropriate member of staff.

All students study Religious Studies.  At KS3 it is taught as a separate subject.  At KS4 it is known as Education for Life which seeks to ensure that sensitive issues are approached within a context which emphasises the moral, spiritual, cultural and ethical aspects of the topic.