The vision for PSHE and Character within BYA is for all students to feel safe and valued. Through oracy strategies have a safe space to discuss worldwide issues and topics, so students can be informed on real world scenarios and make positive choices in their lives to help them flourish. We want students to celebrate the diversity within our community and world and to become a school family and positively influence the community when they leave school.
Curriculum Overview
The main aims of Character lessons are to provide students with:
The Curriculum is designed to embed oracy strategies so students can articulate their opinions on real world matters. It is designed to inform students on British values and how to spot scenarios and deal with them and where to seek help, to inform them on worldly issues, to influence their decision making on positive choices (whether that be vaping, taking drugs, pregnancy choices, gambling, knife crime, etc).
The curriculum is ambitious and designed to give all learners, particularly the most disadvantaged and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) or high needs, the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life.
PSHE is a non-statutory subject. However, there are aspects of it we are required to teach:
Pupils receive their entitlement for learning PSHE through a spiral curriculum which demonstrates progression. The PSHE programme is delivered through a variety of opportunities as set out below.
