PSHE Association poster on the new secondary curriculum

Making sense of Personal Social Health Economic education in the new secondary curriculum

This poster is an attempt to help co-ordinators address two challenges.

How can we move this new subject of PSHE education forward as we revise our school’s provision in the light of the new National Curriculum?

How does it all fit together?

The first side is intended to present possible process that schools could undertake to explore the position of PSHE education within the new secondary national curriculum. It begins with the Every Child Matters agenda and invites schools to reflect on how their PSHE education programme contributes to this over-aching policy framework. It then gradually moves from the strategic issues a school should consider through to the more practical day to day operational issues.

The reverse side is an attempt to summarise and draw the changes together into one single framework placing Every Child Matters at the top, and the Healthy School as a context within which the aims of the new curriculum are modelled and reinforced before moving to the aims of the new curriculum. The central stand then identifies the key place of personal development and the cross-curriculum dimensions before we reach the two programmes of study contained within the subject of PSHE education.

Surrounding this central model are the key passages from a variety of relevant policies and documents that support for the key role of PSHE education plays in realising the three over-arching aims of the new curriculum, successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens. Once again we have offered some key questions colleagues might find useful to explore.

We hope that this document will support those colleagues who are championing the place of PSHE education within the new curriculum.

Hard copies of the poster are available by contacting your local Regional Subject Adviser or you can download small versions here:

Explanations and objectives [pdf] (Poster side 1)

Big picture diagram [pdf] (Poster side 2 )

NB. We have had 5,000 posters printed, the aim being that one is available to every school in the UK. After these have been distributed there will be a small charge for further copies.