PSHE
Students in the Lower School have a weekly PSHE lesson , taught by a team of specialist teachers . These lessons aim to be more informal and fun in order to encourage participation and to allow students to feel comfortable about asking questions .
We follow a spiral programme of themes , as recommended by the PSHE Association . These fall into three broad categories :
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Health and wellbeing Relationships Living in the wider world
Themes in these categories are revisited in successive years throughout the school and explored in more complex ways , so the information develops with the students .
Regular lessons allow us to promote kind , positive and safe interactions both online and in the real world . These are supplemented by whole year group talks and workshops led by external speakers .
These are supplemented by whole year group talks and workshops led by external speakers , such as a Food Tasting workshop for Year 7 , in which students are encouraged to explore and taste new flavours and textures and to think about more sustainable alternatives to the food they might currently choose .
The PSHE curriculum is flexible enough to adapt to the particular needs of Sevenoaks students and to allow us to explore or react to current events , whilst still delivering the important ( and statutory from 2020 ) topics such as Relationship and Sex Education .
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