Approaches to Reduce Bullying

P.S.H.E and Citizenship

An Introduction

The personal, social and health development of pupils and students is a statutory responsibility for all schools and colleges. Guidance on how it might be delivered is given as non-statutory guidance in the national Curriculum. Citizenship is also supported by non-statutory guidance provided by QCA as a scheme of work at Key Stages 1 and 2. Citizenship is usually intimately bonded with PSHE teaching in Primary schools. At Key Stages 3 and 4, however, Citizenship is a new subject in the national Curriculum and is statutory. Schemes of work for key Stages 3 and 4 have been provided by QCA and at Key Stage 4, 1/2 GCSE options in Citizenship are available.

Personal Social Health Education (PSHE) is concerned with the personal social development of pupils and students and is about choosing values by which to live,developing interpersonal skills, recognising personal strengths and areas for development, becoming self confident and coming to terms with physical and emotional changes as they grow. The capacity of a school or college to offer learning opportunities to young people to help them develop into positive, self aware, critical, compassionate young adults able to form effective relationships and manage their lives in an increasingly complex modern world is affected by the values, ethos and culture of the school or college.

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For Citizenship there are three interrelated strands:
1. Social and moral responsibility
2. Community involvement
3. Political literacy

Citizenship helps children develop as members of school, local, regional, national and global communities. It is concerned with issues of right and wrong, rights and responsibilities, fairness, rules and laws, power and authority, equality and difference, communities and identities, democracy, conflict and resolution.

('Guidance File on Behaviour Issues, Good Practice Guide' Leicestershire County Council, Education Department, pp.40-41.).