PSHE
“PSHE education helps children and young people to stay safe, healthy and prepare for life's opportunities.”
At Trafalgar School, PSHE education is a planned, developmental programme of learning through which our students acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to manage their lives now, and in the future. As an integral part of our Personal Development Curriculum, PSHE education helps to safeguard students, support their spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development and promotes thoughtful and articulate discussion on relevant issues in their lives.
Our curriculum focuses on four linked themes: health and well-being, relationships (including online), RSE and living in the wider world. At Key Stage 4, students also develop knowledge of careers and further education. Relational practice enhances our PSHE provision and students are asked to consider their own personal qualities; rights to personal boundaries and how their power as an individual can be harnessed as an active bystander to challenge inappropriate behaviours and create an ethos of success for all.
In Years 7 and 8 students have one 50 minute lesson over the two-week timetable delivered by a member of our Humanities or Pastoral team.
In Year 11, this increases to 100 minutes a fortnight, with learning delivered by our humanities and pastoral team.
Our curriculum is constantly adapting and changing to meet the needs of a changing modern world for our young people, and it ensures students are empowered to make decisions that keep themselves and others safe. Alongside developing the tools to make them resilient, successful and ultimately happy young people.
Assessment in PSHE is through self-reflection and discussions, facilitated by the teacher, and recorded in their books for teacher feedback.
PD days throughout Key Stage 3 & 4 offers opportunities for visitors, outside speakers and trips to venues outside Portsmouth to broaden horizons.
I am incredibly proud to be the Director of Humanities at Trafalgar School, supported by a deeply passionate Humanities team, together we offer an amazingly diverse range of subjects across Humanities.
Humanities are subjects that complement each other in so many ways, and work effortlessly together to create well-rounded humans. History is my passion, and has been for many years, and I ensure that the passion I feel is transferred into all of the subjects I teach.
I have been fortunate to have taught all the Humanities subjects we offer, ensuring that the ethos of our humanities faculty is consistent in every aspect of our curriculum.
We work incredibly hard together as a faculty to ensure that the topics and subjects we teach are diverse, relevant, engaging and inclusive for all. Enabling our students to develop the knowledge and skills to be successful in life after they leave us.
“The calling of Humanities is to make us truly Human in the best sense of the word.”
And that is what we aim to do across the Humanities faculty, here at Trafalgar School.
Laura Hudson-Roberts (Director of Humanties) lhudson.trafalgar@salterns.org
Matt Gronow mgronow.trafalgar@salterns.org
Charlotte Argyle cargyle.trafalgar@salterns.org
Dan Stokes dstokes.trafalgar@salterns.org
Pete Dudley pdudley.trafalgar@salterns.org
Martyn Coram mcoram.trafalgar@salterns.org
Emilie Parker eparker.trafalgar@salterns.org
Kat Davies kdavies.trafalgar@salterns.org
Alice Arnold aarnold.trafalgar@salterns.org
Neil Ball nball.trafalgar@salterns.org
Liberty Morrison lmorrison.trafalgar@salterns.org
Chris Furnell cfurnell.trafalgar@salterns.org
