Transcript Updates_PrimaryPSHECo-ord2011

PSHE & Healthy Schools
Updates
January 2011
Public Health White Paper
• The government expects schools to play their part in promoting
children and young people’s health and well-being through teaching
and pastoral support
• Review planned of how to support teachers to deliver high quality
Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
• Schools will be expected to link with local agencies and community
groups
• Improving self-esteem and developing positive social norms through
the school years should be the focus of local strategies
• Ensuring young people have easy access to young-person friendly
health services
• Interventions that support mental health resilience
• Tackling violence against women and girls
• Focus on combating under-age drinking, addressing link between
alcohol misuse and sexual risk-taking, prevention of smoking in
under 18s.
Schools White Paper
• Improving measures to tackle bullying
including Ofsted focus on behaviour and
safety of pupils
• Resources for schools to provide a
rounded education including sex and
relationship education; Personal Social,
Health and Economic Education
• Review planned into PSHE teaching
Healthy Schools Programme
• Healthy Schools will continue within the context of the
Government’s priorities and in line with the spending
review
• Schools still have an important part to play in supporting
the physical and emotional wellbeing of children and
young people. Healthy Schools plays an important role in
helping children and young people reach their full
potential
• Healthy Schools is changing to a ‘schools-led’ model,
which means participation will be locally determined
according to local needs
• From April 2011, a Healthy Schools toolkit will be
available containing resources for schools to use to
influence health improvement in children and young
people. The toolkit will help schools identify, plan and
implement health behaviour change (and so be
outcome based).
Local priorities
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Alcohol (link with children in care)
Teenage Pregnancy
Domestic Violence
Anti-bullying / Safety
Current messages
• Don’t use online Healthy Schools Tools
• Use the Annual Review as an audit if you
want to
• Continue with any enhancement work
• Continue to review and develop PSHE
Education
• Is it time to revisit SEAL?
Sex Ed Forum
Research findings 2008
Characteristics ….of good practice:
•Being taught in a safe learning environment
•Repetition of learning through the years
•A competent, non-judgemental educator
•One-to-one help being made available after the
class
….of bad practice:
•Not being relevant to young people’s lives
•Not being given enough time
•Being taught by embarrassed, untrained teachers
•Not being inclusive in terms of sexual orientation
Sexualisation of Young People Review (Home
Office 2010)
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Sexualisation of advertising imagery, magazines, marketing
Mainstreaming of pornography
Women’s roles in films, depictions in music videos and video games
Proliferation - normalisation
Mainstreaming of sex industry
• Repeated exposure to gender stereotypical ideas and images
contributes to sexist attitudes and beliefs; sexual harassment;
violence towards women; aggressive sexual behaviour
• Girls and women valued for being sexy; limiting and restrictive ideas
of what it means to be a boy / man – be macho, be strong, don’t
show your emotions.
Schools can
• support children to develop the capacity to
interpret and filter information
• promote positive role models
• challenge stereotypes and value diversity
• take a whole school approach to tackling
sexist and sexual bullying
• have SRE programme that prepares
children to form healthy respectful
emotionally fulfilling relationships
• develop skills around e-safety
Principles of Effective Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco
Education
• The importance of starting where children are at- jugs
and herrings
• The need to start drug education at an early age –
certainly in the primary school
• Simple fear arousal or warnings of the dangers can
stimulate drug use and should be avoided
• The need to provide basic accurate information about
drugs
• Education about drugs includes education about legal
drugs, alcohol and tobacco, legal highs
• Information needs to include the development of
personal skills and qualities such as decision making
skills
• Health education needs to raise pupil’s self-esteem and
confidence
• Drug education should exist within a broad framework of
personal, social and health education (PSHE)