In years 7-11, to ensure progression and a spiral curriculum, we use Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE, as our chosen teaching and learning programme and tailor it to our students’ needs. In Sixth Form, we build on the content taught in the Jigsaw curriculum and revisit important knowledge and skills relating to health, wellbeing and relationships; laying the foundation for their transition into adulthood.

Through Jigsaw, pupils receive an appropriately sequenced PSHE curriculum that meets all statutory requirements and effectively allows for knowledge and skills to be built on overtime. The programme equips teachers with the necessary resources to deliver age-appropriate PSHE lessons and for pupil progress to be assessed overtime. The Jigsaw curriculum was created with the desire and mission to make learning and life chances better for children and young people by systematically developing their inner worlds, empowering them as unique individuals who have positive relationships with self and others. Lesson content has been created with the philosophy that every individual should be valued and respected for who they are thus empowering them to be happy, healthy and compassionate human beings and international citizens with agency.

Within PSHE, pupils are provided the opportunity to learn the knowledge and skills required to develop healthy relationships; navigate the increasing influence of peers and the media; recognise their responsibility and take on greater responsibility within situations; keep themselves safe within both their day to day and online lives; and manage the emotional and physical changes and challenges faced during this transition from pre-teens to adolescents and then into young adults. This gives our students the tools to make better choices in life, whilst also understanding different viewpoints.

At KS5, we have listened to the views of what the pupils consider to be important to them whilst also recognising the fundamental knowledge and skills required as many of our pupils face potentially difficult decisions about further education; the independence, responsibility and pressures of adulthood; and the reality that many of them will leave home for the first time. The curriculum has been created to revisit important knowledge and skills relating to health, wellbeing and relationships whilst also laying the foundation for their futures.

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	RSHE Letter to Families.pdf	.pdf
	RSHE Information for Families.pdf	.pdf

Welcome to George Dixon Academy

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) at George Dixon Academy

Jigsaw

Our PSHE Curriculum

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)

Information for Families: Withdrawal from Sex Education

Access to Jigsaw PSHE Lesson Resources

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