The 2015 Department for Education (DfE) review of effective PSHE practice recommended that PSHE should: “Ensure coherence, teamwork – including involvement from other agencies (where appropriate), parents, governors and members of the wider community.”
The majority of teachers understand the importance of empowering children to have better personal, social and emotional, and relationship skills, because this has a direct and positive impact on their learning capacity, but how do you ensure parents and carers also subscribe to this?
The most effective PSHE programmes commit to a whole-school approach, which extends beyond the school gates. PSHE provides an opportunity to enhance skills such as perseverance, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, self-management, self-respect, teamwork, time and stress-management – important life-skills that simply aren’t covered developmentally by other aspects of the curriculum. The support of the senior leadership team in delivering this message to parents/carers is crucial.
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