Citizenship
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The Personal Education Programme is delivered in discrete weekly lessons to all students in years 7-13, and it includes two elements:
PSHE
explores personal issues and concerns and gives the students opportunities to explore their emotions in the face of changing pressures. The lessons stress the importance of the family in a loving relationship, and cover puberty, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and AIDS. Emotional well being and financial capability are extensively covered.
Citizenship
As the PSHE program explores personal issues and relationships then Citizenship examines our positions as citizens in a societal context, including the local, national and global community.
Students think about their relationship with the law, politics, the UK and the E.U. and consider global issues affecting the world today. There are opportunities for both visits outside school and speakers who come into school, e.g. from the houses of parliament.
There is an 'active citizen' element where students raise either awareness or funds for an issue that they have studied and feel strongly about. For example "Save the Whales" or "Cancer Research." This project is written up as their GCSE controlled assessment for their Citizenship GCSE.