Life Learning (PSHE) Values

Safeguarding is more than simply keeping pupils safe in school. We leave them vulnerable if we do not do everything we can to equip them to keep themselves safe in school, outside school and in the future. We safeguard our children effectively through teaching these valuable life skills during life learning (PSHE) lessons. Overarching concepts developed through our life learning (PSHE) teaching include:

1. Identity; exploring the children's personal qualities, attitudes, skills, attributes and achievements and what influences these; understanding and maintaining boundaries around their personal privacy, including online activity.
2. Relationships; including different types in different settings, in real life and online.
3. A healthy (physically, emotionally and socially), balanced lifestyle; looking at relationships, work-life, exercise and rest, spending and saving and lifestyle choices.
4. Risk; identification, assessment and how to manage risk, rather than simply the avoidance of risk for self and others, and safety; assessing behaviour and strategies to employ in different settings, in real life and online.
5. Diversity and equality.
6. Rights, responsibilities and consent; including the notion of universal human rights and fairness and justice in different contexts.
7. Change; as something that can be managed, and resilience; the skills, strategies and ‘inner resources’ we can draw on when faced with challenging change or circumstance.
8. Power; how it is used and encountered in a variety of contexts including online; how it manifests through behaviours including bullying, persuasion, coercion and how it can be challenged or managed through negotiation and ‘win-win’ outcomes.
9. Career; including enterprise, employability and economic understanding.