PSHEE (compulsory

The teaching of PSHEE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education) is an important part of your education. A one year programme has been developed to allow you to explore your Personal Development and Social and Vocational Awareness.

Throughout your Lower Sixth year you will cover a range of content in your lessons from breast checks to the equality act to student finance and understanding tax. We aim to carefully consider how the programme can best set you up for the world you are entering into beyond Sherborne Girls.

In our classroom teaching we inform the girls as well as encourage open conversations in an environment in which the girls feel comfortable and safe. We engage in discussions and questioning with a focus on being open to the views of everyone and respecting how we are all different. As well as classroom lessons you will also benefit from carefully selected visiting speakers; such as Safe Drive Stay Alive theatre production and food nutritionist talks on fuelling your bodies at times of stress and tiredness and preparing for living independently. We also hold drop down days with Sherborne School where we discuss matters such as alcohol and sexual consent using speakers and smaller mixed workshops.

Our aim is to continually monitor our curriculum to ensure that it allows us to react to local and wider world issues as we hear of them in the news and written press. We appreciate that our students have varying needs and concerns and we want to provide them with a toolkit to put their thoughts at ease as well as ask questions and engage in intellectual discussions.