Our Heads of Year work closely with our Deputy Head and our School Nurse, Lucy Mullins, to create a programme of whole-school PSHCE activities and year-based programmes that are tailored to fit the needs and experiences of those age groups.
Our whole-school PSHCE activities include the following:
School Council | Equalities Prefects | Green Fair Reps | Whole school PSHCE Focus (LGBTQ/Neurodivergence) |
Y12 Book Buddies (Cutteslowe) |
Y12 Science Mentors (New Marston) |
Y9 Football Leaders | Y8 JEMS Mentors |
At the year-group level, our PSHCE programme changes annually, featuring guest speakers and discrete focuses relevant to the girls’ needs and experiences. Often these programmes are adapted to fit the needs of individual year groups, with recent requests from Year 10 leading to new modules on managing money and how to deal with unwanted attention. Other year groups might have more structured focuses, such as Year 11 receiving a unit on study skills prior to their Mock GCSEs.
An example of how a PSHCE programme might look across the year is given below.
Democracy | Tolerance | Rule of Law | Individual Liberty | |
Year 7 | Choosing Form Reps | Friendships and team building lessons. | School rules and expectations | |
Year 8 | Choosing a Class Charity | Equal Opportunities | ||
Year 9 | Suffragettes – author talk | Stonewall Talk by Sir Ian McKellen | Magistrates Court Mock Trial | Human Rights unit
Empathy Action (Geography) |
Year 10 | MUNGA | Stonewall Talk by Sir Ian McKellen | Money (Economic Awareness Unit)
Gender and the Law |
Active Citizen project |
Year 11 | Brexit unit | Stonewall Talk by Sir Ian McKellen | National insurance and employment lesson. | Festival survival guide- student researched guides |
Year 12 | Mock Elections
Parliamentary candidates in election year |
Perspectives Speaker programme e.g. Middle East | Sex, Likes and Social Media | Sex, Likes and Social Media |
Year 13 | Mock Elections
Parliamentary candidates in election year |
Perspectives Speaker programme e.g. Middle East
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Sex, Likes and Social Media | Sex, Likes and Social Media |