Curriculum Vision
The five-year PSHE curriculum at Seahaven Academy ensures students develop a broad understanding of their identity, community and the world around them.
Our diverse and inclusive curriculum helps students to explore who they are as a person whilst also learning vital skills to keep themselves safe as well as being an active responsible citizen.
In every lesson, all students encounter new vocabulary. Students learn to explain their thoughts and ideas by increasing their use of emotional vocabulary used to describe feelings.
They are challenged with different points of view and perspectives, breaking down misconceptions they have about different groups in society. Students, therefore, become more resilient, tolerant and respectful individuals.
Curriculum enrichment such as external careers focused trips is used to allow students to make connections beyond the classroom and develop a curiosity for the students' academic and personal future, giving students the tools to become successful global citizens.
Our curriculum builds on primary school PSHE statutory content outlined by the government statutory guidance. Term 1, year 7 starts with the topic of ‘Valuing Myself and Others’ to help students settle in and form crucial skills in independence and forming friendships. The theme of independence and healthy behaviour and friendships is further built on during the second topic of ‘Responsibilities and Values’ and the final topic of ‘Making Safe Choices’. From there Year 8 students further build on KS2 themes of puberty.
Seahaven Academy’s PSHE curriculum has been carefully designed to consider a number of factors.
- Adolescence is a key period for mental, emotional, social changes. Teenagers face pressures (school, peers, identity, social media, exams, family) that can trigger stress. Seahaven Academy’s PSHE curriculum equips young people with skills to manage stress, build resilience, and maintain wellbeing. The PSHE Association highlights “common triggers” for stress or emotional difficulties: transitions (e.g. moving to a new school/year), exam periods, family relationship difficulties, peer relationship issues, online pressures et. These themes are all tackled during PSHE lessons.
- Students are now living in an ever-evolving online world that provides numerous challenges during teenage years. Our PSHE curriculum helps students to recognise risks online (e.g. cyberbullying, exploitation), understand privacy, data and information sharing. The curriculum also tackles pressures of social media, digital identity, online influence. As well as more advanced themes in older years (e.g. “sharing nudes / semi-nudes,” online blackmail / sextortion).
- It is important that our young people grow into thoughtful, tolerant and kind adults who looks for ways to ensure community cohesion. The curriculum, for this reason covers a range of equalities issues including protected characteristics and rights and responsibilities.
- At Seahaven Academy our approach is underpinned by a sense of moral purpose and commitment to doing what is right. We aim to achieve excellence and act with integrity; this ethos is encapsulated in the United Learning motto as The Best in Everyone. This ethos underpins our core values:
- Kind – With kindness we care
- Confident - With confidence we dare
- Ambitious - With ambition we exceed