Life Skills

At Homewood School & Sixth Form Centre we provide Personal, Social, Health, Relationships and Economic Education to Key Stages 3 and 4, through a spiral programme that gradually expands and enriches key concepts, increases knowledge, deepens understanding, and rehearses and develops key skills through a thematic approach. We have recently rebranded our curriculum from the previously named "PSHRE" to Life Skills as this truly encompasses the main goal for the subject - to develop each student's life skills enabling them to be set for the future.

The aim is to provide a broad Life Skills Education Programme alongside Personal Development to equip students with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions.

The key 3 areas covered are:

• Health and Wellbeing
• Relationships
• Living in the Wider World 

Life Skills Education is central to the development of the young people at Homewood School & Sixth Form Centre. The planned programme is designed to help them deal with the difficult moral, social and health-related issues that arise in their lives and in society. It also helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to live confident, healthy, independent lives as individuals, parents, workers and members of society. In addition to this, the Life Skills programme promotes fundamental British Values, which are taught implicitly in lessons and throughout all key stages.

The key concepts which underpin all the topics covered are:

• Identity
• Resilience
• Managing Change
• Power (within social contexts such as peer-pressure)
• Rights, Responsibility and Consent
• Diversity and Equality
• Risk Management
• Health (mental, physical and emotional) 
• Healthy Balanced lifestyles
• Healthy Relationships (including; friendships, romantic, familial)
• Careers (including academic choices, enterprise and economic understanding) 
• British Values and Citizenship 

Our Life Skills Education Programme recognises that young people will bring prior learning and real-life experiences to their learning and links closely to Personal Development activities that focus on Homewood Habits, current affairs, personal characteristics and more. 

Overview of Life Skills/PD Themes

Homewood School Personal Development Overview 2024

Individual Year Group Outlines
Year 7 Personal DevelopmentYear 8 Personal DevelopmentYear 9 Personal DevelopmentYear 11 Personal DevelopmentYear 10 Personal Development