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 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) 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)