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Life Skills Programme
We promote personal wellbeing and development through a comprehensive personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education programme which we call Life Skills. All pupils have a weekly Life Skills lesson
which is supplemented with various talks and workshops during the year. The Life Skills programme gives young people the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills
to live safe, healthy and productive lives. The programme has been put together by Mrs Andrews (Life Skills Co-ordinator) in line with government legislation and using guidance from the highly respected PSHE Association. For the full programme of study, along with the Relationships and Sex Education Policy, please see the Parent Hub of the College website.
The Life Skills programme includes relationships and sex education (RSE). RSE lessons discuss consent and the law, features of healthy relationships, diversity in sexual attraction, unhealthy relationships (including exploitation, forced marriage and female genital mutilation) and sexually transmitted infections. The emphasis is on supporting young people to develop the life skills required to navigate their way through modern society. The lessons are engaging and interactive and provide a safe space where pupils can ask questions that help prepare them for life beyond Malvern College.
Our Life Skills lessons are supported by a programme of external speakers and workshops, such as:
Oddballs (men’s health)
Investin (career skills)
Iain Mahoney (mental health)
Empower (women’s health)
IT Happens Education (relationships, sex and health education)
West Mercia Police who talk about road safety for young drivers
Under UK Government legislation for PSHE, parents are entitled to withdraw their child from any or all aspects of sex education, other than those which are part of the science curriculum, up to and until three terms before the age of 16. If you would like to discuss withdrawing your child from the Sex Education elements
of PSHE, please email:
lewis.faulkner@malverncollege.org.uk
The goal of the Life Skills programme is that all adults should work together, in school and at home, to improve conversations about these important topics with your children. We consult regularly with parents about the Life Skills programme via Parents’ Forum meetings,
and we organise a range of parental webinars during the year, to which you will be invited.
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