CPSHE

Ruth Marx - CPSHE co-ordinator

Ruth Mason - CPSHE curriculum developer

Flora Dickenson - CPSHE curriculum developer

Samantha Whitehead - CPSHE curriculum developer

Citizenship Personal Health Social & Economic Education (CPHSE) is taught in all year groups at Morpeth. It is taught through a combination of drop down sessions through the year, and coaching circle discussions.

The subject helps students develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to help them manage the opportunities, challenges and responsibilities they will face as they grow up and enter adulthood.

Students learn how to participate positively in society and to stay safe and healthy and to build self-esteem, resilience and empathy. In turn this can raise their achievement in education and improve their life chances.

Citizenship (core for all students in years 7 to 13)

Students are taught:

About rights and responsibilities as members of diverse communities, as active citizens and participants in the local and national economy.
How to make informed choices and be enterprising and ambitious.
How to develop employability, team working and leadership skills and develop flexibility and resilience.
About the electoral system, political parties, other political groups and pressure groups and how to participate in them.
About justice, the legal system and international organisations

Social and emotional health and wellbeing

Students are taught:

How to manage transition.
How to maintain physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing.
Awareness of legal and illegal drugs including alcohol, tobacco and new psychoactive substances.
How to assess and manage risks to health and to stay, and keep others, safe.
How to identify and access help, advice and support.

Relationships and sex education

Students are taught:

How to develop and maintain a variety of healthy relationships within a range of social/cultural contexts and to develop parenting skills.
How to recognise and manage emotions within a range of relationships
How to deal with risky or negative relationships including all forms of bullying (including the distinct challenges posed by online bullying) and abuse, sexual and other violence and online encounters.
About the concept of consent in a variety of contexts (including in sexual relationships).
About managing loss including bereavement, separation and divorce.
To respect equality and be a productive member of a diverse community.
How to identify and access appropriate advice and support.

Careers and financial education

Students are taught:

About the opportunities they have for the future and to learn from a variety of outside providers.
The skills and attributes needed for success in the world of further education and work.
How to put into practice the skills they have learnt.
Personal financial skills so they have a good understanding for the future.
How personal financial choices can affect oneself and others and about rights and responsibilities as consumers.
About the economic and business environment and how they work at a local, national and international level.

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