PSHE its relevance in a curriculum for the 21st century

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PSHE its relevance in a curriculum for the
21st century

• Jan Campbell
• Chair of Board of Trustees
• PSHE Association

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Content

• the context for developing PSHE in 2008
• national developments
• implications and support for PSHE
• QA

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Government priorities include

• ECM outcomes be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and
  achieve, make a positive contribution, achieve
  economic well being
• inclusion setting suitable learning challenges,
  responding to pupils diverse learning needs,
  overcoming potential barriers to learning and
  assessment
• the Childrens Plan - healthy lifestyles SRE
  review, drug education review wellbeing
  guidance PE and school sport obesity targets
  National Healthy Schools programmes National
  PSHE CPD programme.

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Government priorities (2)

• social and emotional development (e.g. SEAL)
• workforce reform involving a range of adults
  in the life and work of the school
• social justice and cohesion, community
  responsibility, neighbourhood renewal,
  regeneration, effective citizenship
• enterprise, new pathways to employment, reducing
  financial exclusion

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Expectations that the curriculum will deal with
emerging issues

• obesity targets
• teenage pregnancy
• alcohol misuse as well as illegal drugs
• personal debt
• increased need for interfaith understanding -
  Identity
• challenging racism and discrimination
• issues such as knife and gun crime

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Education and Inspections Bill 2006

• statutory duty for schools to promote physical,
  mental, emotional and social well-being as well
  as educational attainment
• recognises that raising standards and promoting
  pupil well-being are mutually reinforcing (Lord
  Adonis)

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National developments

• new secondary curriculum
• secondary subject support work
• primary curriculum review
• PSHE Association
• national strategic partners group for PSHE
  education
• National PSHE CPD programme
• National Healthy Schools Programme
• SEAL

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New secondary curriculum

• Three statutory curriculum aims to enable all
  young people to become
• successful learners who enjoy learning, make
  progress and achieve
• confident individuals who are able to live safe,
  healthy and fulfilling lives
• responsible citizens who make a positive
  contribution to society

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New programmes of study for PSHE education

• two new programmes of study for PSHE education
  (personal, social, health and economic education)
• personal wellbeing
• and
• economic wellbeing and financial capability
• draw together, in a coherent way, personal,
  social and health education, including sex
  education, the social and emotional aspects of
  learning, careers education, enterprise,
  financial capability and work-related learning
• non-statutory but contain statutory requirements

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Secondary curriculumsubject support

• PSHE Association leading support for PSHE
  education, working collaboratively with other
  organisations
• national subject leadership - appointment of NSL
  s PWB and EWBFC
• Regional Subject Advisers .. enhancing regional
  capacity to support PSHE education

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Primary curriculum review aims for

• flexibility, coherence, commitment to learning,
  improved standards
• reduced prescription, increased flexibility, more
  opportunity to tailor teaching and learning
• strengthened focus on developing essential
  reading, writing and numeracy skills across the
  curriculum
• entitlement for all pupils to experience a broad
  and balanced curriculum
• greater emphasis on development of the whole
  child
• improved progression - smoothing transition.

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Primary review remit includes

• a more integrated and simpler framework for the
  personal skills which all pupils should develop
• personal development should be a central aspect
  of the curriculum . personal, social and
  emotional capabilities are closely related to
  educational attainment, success in the labour
  market and to childrens wellbeing
• build on prior learning in EYFS to develop
  essential reading, writing, numeracy and personal
  skills they need in order to learn and develop
• (remit from Ed Balls to Sir Jim Rose)

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What is PSHE education?

• Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE)
  education is a planned programme of learning
  opportunities and experiences that help children
  and young people grow and develop as individuals
  and as members of families and of social and
  economic communities. 
• (PSHE education strategic partners group)

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Why is PSHE education important to schools?

• PSHE education makes a major contribution to
  schools contribution to the Every Child Matters
  (ECM) 5 outcomes for children and to the
  statutory responsibilities to
• promote children and young peoples wellbeing2
• achieve the whole curriculum aims
• promote community cohesion
• provide careers education and sex education

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NHSP

• PSHE a core theme
• partnership with PSHE Association and National
  PSHE CPD Programme
• new guidance on PSHE forthcoming
• for Healthy Schools status 'drop down days or
  off-timetable days are regarded as PSHE
  enhancement days and are not a substitute for
  timetabled PSHE sessions.

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National PSHE CPD Programme

• What's new from September 08?
• module on Economic Wellbeing/Financial Capability
  to accompany SRE/DE and EHWB
• now includes professionals other than teachers
  and community nurses within pilot
• accredited by Roehampton University at levels
  HE1-3 and now HE4 (Masters Level)

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The relationship between SEAL and PSHE education

• SEAL contributes to personal development by
  promoting social and emotional aspects of
  learning. It provides a framework and some ideas
  for teaching social and emotional skills within
  discrete lessons, across subjects and outside the
  classroom. PSHE education provides an invaluable
  contribution to learning the social and emotional
  skills that are identified in SEAL. SEAL in turn
  provides a framework that supports PSHE
  education.

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The PSHE Associationremit to ..

• raise the status of PSHE and bring it in line
  with other subjects
• support school achievement of the PSHE theme in
  NHSP
• further promote the PSHE CPD programme and
  provide on-going support for certificated
  teachers
• to improve the quality of PSHE provision and
  increase its impact

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PSHE Association

• leading secondary support for PSHE education
• working collaboratively with organisations
  supporting economic wellbeing and financial
  capability across all phases
• working with QCA to ensure that PSHE education
  entitlement is maintained across phases
• linking with NHSP, PSHE CPD and SEAL
• contributing to major national developments e.g.
  primary curriculum, SRE review etc
• responding to government reports and strategies
  (see website) and representing member views to
  policy making bodies

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Andrew Adonis

• Without effective PSHE schools ability to
  demonstrate how they are contributing to the
  Every Child Matters agenda, addressing pupil
  well-being and supporting personal development is
  compromised. May 2007