PSHE with RSE
At Reach Academy, we recognise that PSHE is a vital learning need for our pupils to support them to navigate an increasingly challenging world and to ensure that they have the knowledge and skills to keep themselves healthy and safe. Pupils are provided with two lessons of PSHE per week and alongside this nurture breakfast and assemblies are also used to tackle current and locally identified needs. We also invite a range of organisations into Reach to deliver workshops on a range of issues including first aid, fire safety and water safety.
Across the three years that pupils spend at Reach they will cover a broad range of topics across the three core themes of Health and Wellbeing, Relationships and Living in the Wider World. Learning in PSHE will include financial literacy, bullying, mental health and media literacy. We also cover aspects of citizenship within PSHE lessons studying topics around democracy and the law. Lessons are planned by group staff to ensure that they are appropriate for the pupils’ maturity and level of understanding.
Relationships and Sex Education is another key aspect of the curriculum. We help pupils know what a healthy and unhealthy relationship looks like and give them strategies to manage the different relationships in their lives. We ensure that our pupils are able to confidently and sensitively talk about issues around sex and consent that may arise in their time at Reach and as they move on.
Where issues arise with individuals, groups or a local need is identified there are a range of strategies used to tackle this. These include individual or group interventions, whole school assemblies and opportunities for group discussions and group learning during nurture breakfasts. We have a discussion book present in all classes to facilitate these types of discussions and to record pupil voice and understanding around relevant issues.
