PSHE: Relationships, Abuse and Women's Safety

PHSE Co-Ordinator: Mr.T.Chappelle
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King David High School is committed to teaching and promoting gender equality and women’s and girls’ safety, both within the school environment and in the wider world.  We aim to achieve this through the Learning for Life programme, a whole school approach, and through our collaboration with Jewish Women’s Aid.
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Learning for Life
The Learning for Life programme is taught to years 7-11 and covers all aspects of Relationship Sex Education (RSE), SMSC and Citizenship.  Key aspects of these are equality and safe, healthy relationships.  The full syllabus can be viewed here.
 
Whole School Approach
A Whole School Approach is a comprehensive way of creating an educational environment that enables and structures such support and works to promote equality and eliminate violence against women and girls. Vitally, a Whole School Approach ensures that positive activity in one area of work is not undermined elsewhere. For example, Learning for Life lessons teaching about respectful and equal relationships in the classroom will be meaningless if sexual harassment is ignored in the corridors outside.  A Whole School Approach gives both young people and staff the skills to respond to, challenge and prevent violence against women and girls within their establishment and the local community.


​Jewish Women’s Aid
We are proud to work in partnership with Jewish Women’s Aid, who deliver lessons to all pupils in Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 6th Form on healthy relationships, abuse and women’s safety.  Each year group receive one session per school year, which deliver age-appropriate teaching.  The JWA curriculum for King David High School is:
Year 7:
  • Explore what healthy friendships look like
  • Understand how peer pressure impacts upon friendships
  • Understand the role of consent in terms of a healthy friendship  

Year 8:
  • Explore what unhealthy friendships/relationships look like.
  • Know how to spot the signs of unhealthy behaviours in relationships
  • Explore messaging from the media in terms of relationships and how helpful this is for navigating our own
 
Year 9:
  • Introduction to Gender Inequality

Series of sessions to explore how gender inequality impacts our relationships. Session could includes:
  •    Everyday Sexism
  •    Toxic Masculinity and lad culture
  •    The impact of porn on relationships
  •    Portrayal of women in the media and its impact
  •    Activism – how to make changes within our school community
 
Year 10:
  • What is Domestic Abuse and how can we recognise it?
  • Explore the different types of abuse and how it could manifest in teenage relationships as well as in the home
  • Consent in relationships
  • Understand coercive control
  • Know how to access support and JWA services
 
Year 12 & 13:
  • Healthy Relationships and Consent
  • Busting myths linked to sexual violence and rape
  • Working towards creating a ‘consent culture’
  • Sexual harassment, gender and the media
  • Understanding the reality of Sexual Violence on campus
  • Prep for Campus Life
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