At Wyvern Academy we want to help young people develop fully as individuals and as members of families and social and economic communities. The PSHCE programme is intended to help equip our students with the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills to live healthy, safely, productively and responsibly.

All students at Wyvern Academy are, without exception, entitled to a world-class PSHCE education that is holistic, ambitious and aspirational spanning the pupils’ secondary school career, with a progressive, spiral curriculum that addresses real needs in a rapidly changing world. It is vital that we prepare our young people so that they are empowered to become engaged positive and respectful members of society through a dedicated focus on developing them as professional learners and developing a deep understanding of the world around them by covering different aspects of the subject.

Our PSHCE programme aims to develop our young people at Wyvern Academy through carefully planned and resourced lessons that develop the knowledge, skills and attributes young people need to protect and enhance their wellbeing. Through these lessons, students will learn how to stay safe and healthy, build and maintain successful relationships and become active citizens, responsibly participating in the world around them. Lessons in this scheme of work have their foundations in seeing each and everybody’s value in society, from appreciation of others in units such as Diversity, to promoting strong and positive views in the Health and Wellbeing units.

The PSHCE curriculum aims to cover a range of social and emotional aspects of learning, enabling our pupils to develop their identity and self-esteem as active, confident individuals. The topics within PSHCE support social, moral, spiritual and cultural development and provide our pupils with essential safeguarding issues, developing their knowledge of when and how young people can ask for help.

Literacy and numeracy skills are fed through our curriculum allowing students to focus on the precise technical language and skills needed to make sense and interact with the numerous topics they will learn.

We are responsible for ensuring our young people are confident to pursue ambitious next steps and progress on to further education, employment or training which will support their future careers through introducing careers related to intervention, the importance of the wide range of transferable skills that are used in PSHCE and how these can be used by young people in their future learning or careers.

Parents and carers also have the right to withdraw their child from RSE lessons