Personal Development
Intent:
Rainford High recognises the vital role that effective PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education) & RSE (Relationship and Sex Education) plays within the personal development of all students. We are very aware that children and young people are growing up in an increasingly complex world and living their lives on and offline, as well as engaging and being exposed to different relationships. This presents positive and exciting opportunities, but also presents a variety of challenges and risks. Students are joining a competitive world and will need to work hard to be successful citizens. In this environment, children and young people need to know how to be safe and healthy, and how to manage their academic, personal and social lives in a positive way – as stated by DFE.
The aim of at Rainford High’s PSHE and RSE curriculum supports the schools Personal Development aim which is:
‘To ensure all students are equipped with the knowledge, understanding and wisdom to become well-informed, productive and successful members of their communities and a global society.’
Working with the school’s ethos at its heart, the PSHE and RSE curriculum aims to develop a range of personal attributes that will ensure all students are safe, prepared to lead happy, healthy and productive lives and secure successful futures.
*We want our students to be
Everyone Matters: We expect our community to be polite and respectful
*Respectful, Responsible and Resilient
Everyone Helps: We expect our community to make sensible choices
*Helpful, Happy and Healthy
Everyone Succeeds: We expect our community to work hard
*Safe, Successful & Sociable
Implementation:
Our students take part in 1-hour Personal Development lessons on a floating timetable every 2 weeks, delivered by Personal Development Tutors.
We also invite in a range of external speakers and agencies to support in the delivery of specialist topics to enrich and support the Personal Development Program.
You can view the Long-Term Plan for Year 7-11 and our visual learning journeys below.
If you would like a more detailed medium term plan, please contact Personal Development Lead Miss McIntosh on [email protected]
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)
In line with DFE statutory requirements, we ensure that relationships, sex and health education is prioritised within the scheme and in enrichment assemblies and activities; including links with mental health and well-being education and securing inclusive provision for our most vulnerable SEND and DA students.
The curriculum is progressive in order to reflect the ‘stage and age’ of students within Year 7 to 13 covering more complex topics at appropriate times in their development. Delivery of RSE themes is supported by a range of curriculum areas who cover key strands within their subjects. In line with DFE expectations these RSE themes ‘should be taught sensitively and inclusively, with respect to the backgrounds and beliefs of pupils and parents while always with the aim of providing pupils with the knowledge they need of the law’.
Please click the link below to see the relationships and sex education policy and cross-curricular audit for more detailed information.
Relationships, Health and Sex Education Policy
Impact:
Whilst the impact of many areas of personal development provision – including PSHE and RSE – are difficult to measure, we believe that our PSHE and RSE provision and inclusive delivery plays a vital role in enabling the overwhelming majority of our students reach their next steps and become well-informed, productive and successful members of their communities and a global society. Destinations data supports this belief and indicates that 98% of students were successful in gaining their chosen ‘next steps’.
As a result of the knowledge and understanding gained within both the curriculum and enrichment opportunities, the vast majority of students work productively within the school’s inclusive ethos and are able to develop as person as well as a pupil; demonstrating the positive personal and social attributes described within our curriculum Intent / Aims section both as a current student and within the next stages of