PSHE

In PSHE education, we aim to ensure that Oakwood Park Grammar School students know how to be safe and healthy and how to manage their academic, personal and social lives in a positive way.  We aim to equip them with the tools they need to make informed choices when faced by difficult real-world situations. Through a thorough and enriched PSHE curriculum student academic achievement will also benefit from developing resilience, building relationships and managing online safely.

Personal, Social, Healthcare, Economic Education develops the knowledge, skills and attributes all pupils need: from mental health and wellbeing to understanding the importance of staying safe online, healthy and safe relationships, making sense of media messages, challenging extreme views and having the skills and attributes to negotiate a potentially volatile labour market.

Oakwood Park  Grammar School follows the PSHE Association programme of study, which covers three core themes – ‘health and wellbeing’, ‘relationships’ and ‘living in the wider world’ from the foundation years up to A level. PSHE has a spiral curriculum, enabling students to build a greater depth of knowledge and understanding throughout their time at OPGS.

Our enrichment programme provides students with the opportunity to engage with speakers from the wider community to improve their own health and wellbeing. Each year group has visits from key organisations, such as Kent Police and Fire Service, sexual health advice from the NHS and Sexd, as well as Drugs, Alcohol and Mental Health support from the Kenward Trust, Kooth, Hope not Hate, Mind and Beyond Equality, also all provide an invaluable service to the students of OPGS. Through these close links students learn where to go for help and support if they ever need it.

Mental Health and Wellbeing:

Recognising Emotions

Managing strong emotions and set backs

Work-Life Balance

Eating Habits

Body image and body modifications

Unhealthy Coping Strategies

Healthy Coping Strategies

Testicular health

Drug Education

Vaping

Impact of Drugs

Alcohol and Cannabis

Managing Influence

Managing Risk in Relation to the Law:

Social Media Influence

Online influences

Mis and Disinformation

Serious Organised Crime

Gangs

Knife Crime

Cybercrime

Run, Hide, Tell

Intimate Sexual Relationships:

Modern Families

Relationships Rights

Separation and Divorce

Family Conflicts

Conflict Resolution

Homelessness

Equality Act

LGBT

Pressures of Sex

Healthy sexual experiences Managing the ending of relationships

Intimate Sexual Relationships:

Unplanned Pregnancy

Sharing Nudes

Deepfakes

Sex and the Media

Sexual harassment

Gender-based violence

Online Blackmail

Careers and Future Choices:

Employability Skills

Enterprising

Families & Respectful, kind relationships            

Building self-esteem      

Importance of tolerance of others’ beliefs           

Ending relationships kindly          

Managing disappointment, hurt and frustration

Recognising misogyny   

Pornography’s negative influence on sexual behaviour and attitudes       

Being safe          

Recognising unsafe and untrustworthy people and information 

Fixated, obsessive, unwanted and repeated behaviours

Consent and boundaries in relationships including early romantic relationship in person and online           

Understanding and resisting pressure including sexual pressure 

Pornography’s normalising of unsafe behaviours              

Online safety, awareness and wellbeing online

Characteristics and considerations for using social media in a healthy way             

Risks and laws around the sharing of indecent images    

How to seek help and report concerning material             

Harmful influence of pornography and misogynistic social content            

How personal data is generated, collected, shared and used online          

Sextortion and other online scams           

AI chatbots        

How online content effects well being   

Mental wellbeing & developing body   

Loneliness and feeling down are normal

Understanding what makes you feel happy and unhappy              

Characteristics of common mental health conditions       

Ways to overcome anxiety         

Relationships between alcohol and drug use with mental health conditions          

Period problems such as premenstrual syndrome, heavy menstrual bleeding, endometriosis and polycystic syndrome (PCOS) 

Intimate and sexual relationships, including sexual health          

Navigating local healthcare services including sexual health clinics             

Full range of contraception options including female condoms   

Sex can and should be enjoyable             

Sexually Transmitted Infections – impact, prevalence, importance of testing and role of stigma    

Methods for protection and prevention including PrEP and PEP and where to access them            

How and where to get help for concerns about sexual relationships, including violence