PSHE Curriculum | Linden Bridge School

PSHE CURRICUM ACROSS THE PHASES

INTENT: To prepare our young people to transition into adulthood with the skills they need to live as an independent life as possible

Residential Department

Provides rewarding and enjoyable learning opportunities to extend the formal and phoenix stage learners’ educational outcomes across the PSHE curriculum

EYFS / Semi-formal INTENT

Health, Friendship and Relationships

The Semi formal PHSE curriculum is founded in developing the skills needed to become healthy happy individuals. To enable this pupils focus on good physical and mental health. Being a good friend and play skills

Community Inclusion

Pupils visit the local community weekly. Key skills are specifically taught by topic per half term. Some pupils attend the local mainstream primary school working towards inclusion.

Independent Living

Specialist approaches such as TEACCH underpin the structure of school life at Linden Bridge. Focusing on self -help skills including eating, dressing, toileting and visiting the community.

Work Skills & Careers

Our intent for pupils accessing the semi-formal curriculum is to be working towards an adulthood of contribution and fulfilment of potential. Pupils focus on experiencing different types of work and visiting different work places.

Relationships & Sex Education

Through class based shared experiences, pupils develop tolerance of being part of a group and work towards becoming contributing members of the group.

Relationship skills are taught specifically using specialist strategies above and integrally through a range of interactions with adults and peers.

Pupils learn about their bodies and the vocabulary of emotions in order to enable their ability to self-regulate.

Formal & Phoenix – 3 year rolling program

Each overarching outcome has a scheme of work linked to shorter term targets in the formal curriculum – they have 4 stages depending where the pupil is at developmentally
Each overarching outcome in the Phoenix curriculum is related to specific PSD qualifications through Laser
Across the year during outings ALL pupil focus on using public transport

Year 1

Formal	Phoenix	Area	Overarching Outcome
Autumn 1	Each area is covered each week through Laser PSD units	Friendship and Relationships	Pupil understands who they are as a person
Autumn 2		Community Inclusion	Pupil understands their rights and responsibilities
Spring 1		Independent Living	Pupil can keep their environment clean and tidy
Spring 2		Work Skills & Careers	Pupil understands what it means to work
Summer 1		Health	Pupil can manage own emotions
Summer 2		Relationships & Sex Education

Year 2

Formal	Phoenix	Area	Overarching Outcome
Autumn 1	Each area is covered each week through Laser PSD units	Friendship and Relationships	Pupil can have successful relationships with others
Autumn 2		Community Inclusion	Pupils can access their local services they need
Spring 1		Independent Living	Pupil can prepare and cook meals, snack and drinks.
Spring 2		Work Skills & Careers	Pupil understands about the different options available
Summer 1		Health	Pupils can manage own emotions
Summer 2		Relationships & Sex Education

Year 3

Formal	Phoenix	Area	Overarching Outcome
Autumn 1	Each area is covered each week through Laser PSD units	Friendship and Relationships	Pupils can appropriately interact with people they do and don’t know
Autumn 2		Community Inclusion	Pupils can successfully access their local communities
Spring 1		Independent Living	Pupil can plan and budget to successfully use money
Spring 2		Work Skills & Careers	Pupil will create an informed goal plan /Pupil will learn skills to support their journey through job application process
Summer 1		Health	Pupil can look after their own physical needs
Summer 2		Relationships & Sex Education