PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic education) at Park View

Our PSHE curriculum helps pupils develop the knowledge, confidence and life skills they need as they grow into young adults. Each year group learns about Health and Wellbeing, Relationships, and Living in the Wider World, with topics becoming more detailed and age‑appropriate as students move through the school.

Year 7

Autumn – Health & Wellbeing

  • Healthy lifestyles and mental health
  • Growing and changing
  • Keeping safe
  • Introduction to drugs, alcohol and tobacco

Spring – Relationships

  • Families and friendships
  • Bullying and managing unkind behaviour
  • Safe relationships
  • Respecting themselves and others

Summer – Living in the Wider World

  • Community and belonging
  • Early careers awareness

Year 8

Autumn – Health & Wellbeing

  • Puberty and sexual health
  • Emotional wellbeing and self‑esteem
  • Healthy lifestyle choices
  • Personal safety and managing risk

Spring – Relationships

  • Diversity and equality
  • Prejudice, discrimination and bullying (including online)
  • Gender identity and sexual orientation
  • Introduction to consent, healthy relationships and contraception
  • Friendships and early romantic relationships

Summer – Living in the Wider World

  • Careers and future opportunities
  • Online safety and understanding the media
  • Gambling awareness

Year 9

Autumn – Health & Wellbeing

  • Peer influence and peer pressure
  • Gangs, risk‑taking and staying safe
  • Substance use, addiction and the law

Spring – Relationships

  • Managing conflict at home
  • Risks of running away
  • Intimate relationships, STIs, sexting and pornography
  • Consent and healthy relationship expectations
  • Understanding discrimination

Summer – Living in the Wider World

  • Careers, aspirations and planning for the future
  • Online identity and digital footprints

Year 10

Autumn – Health & Wellbeing

  • Self‑esteem and emotional wellbeing
  • Sexual health and fertility

Spring – Relationships

  • Relationship expectations and managing changes
  • Consent, communication and pleasure
  • Media influence and pornography
  • Understanding extremism and radicalisation
  • Belonging and community safety

Summer – Living in the Wider World

  • Financial decision‑making
  • Debt, gambling and advertising
  • Budgeting and money management

Year 11

Autumn – Health & Wellbeing

  • Preparing for the future
  • Stress management and building independence
  • Making safe and responsible choices

Spring – Next Steps & Relationships

  • Post‑16 applications and future planning
  • Relationships, sexual health, families and pregnancy

Summer – Transition

  • Preparing for life beyond school
  • Managing change and building confidence