PSHE education provides pupils with the knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes to make informed decisions about their lives, including sex and relationship education (SRE) and drug education (including alcohol, tobacco and volatile substance abuse), careers education and financial capability (economic education)
A healthy school is expected to have a well structured and comprehensive PSHE education programme in place for pupils in all years. It is also expected that such schools will have up to date policies in place, developed through wide consultation, covering a range of areas, including sex and relationship education, drug education and managing drug related incidents, child protection and confidentiality.
The new Ofsted framework will place far greater emphasis on the emotional wellbeing of pupils, the contribution of the school to the five outcomes of ECM and give a much sharper focus to the pupil voice. A well informed, well structured and comprehensive PSHE education programme can place a school in a very strong position when providing evidence of its work in these areas and gives the potential to identify outcomes.
A) PSHE education and statutory status read more
B) Briefing for Head Teachers and Governors about PSHE education and statutory status read more C) A summary of government guidance related to PSHE education. This provides an excellent summary of the existing range of government guidance related to PSHE education to help practitioners identify and make use of the comprehensive guidance resources available to them to support effective planning and delivery of PSHE education read more