Honesty, Empathy, Resilience
PSHE
At Endeavour Academy, we believe that PSHE is fundamental to helping young people understand themselves, develop healthy relationships, navigate the wider world, and prepare for adulthood. For many of our students, previous experiences and difficulties may have impacted their confidence, emotional regulation, relationships, and understanding of themselves and others. Our PSHE curriculum is therefore designed to be both academically meaningful and therapeutically informed, supporting students to develop the knowledge, skills, resilience, and self-awareness that they need to lead safe and fulfilling lives.
We believe that every student deserves access to a PSHE curriculum that is ambitious, inclusive, and empowering. Our curriculum provides explicit teaching of the knowledge and skills that students need to understand their emotions, manage relationships, make informed choices, and participate positively within society. We recognise that many aspects of social interaction, emotional literacy, and self-regulation that may develop implicitly for some learners often need to be taught explicitly, modelled carefully, revisited regularly, and practise in supportive environments for our students.
At the heart of the PSHE curriculum is the belief that relationships matter. Through structured discussion, reflection, modelling, and restorative approaches, students learn how to communicate effectively, recognise emotions, resolve conflict, respect boundaries, and develop empathy for others. We aim to create a safe classroom environment where students feel heard, valued, and able to explore sensitive topics with trust and dignity. Listening skills, emotional literacy, and respectful communication are explicitly taught and practised across all key stages as essential life skills.
Our PSHE curriculum equips students with knowledge needed to keep themselves physically, emotionally, and socially safe. This includes teaching around mental health and wellbeing, healthy and unhealthy relationships, consent, online safety, exploitation, prejudice, diversity, equality, substance misuse, financial literacy, and personal safety. We recognise that many of our students may be particularly vulnerable to risk and therefore place significant emphasis on helping students recognise unsafe situations, advocate for themselves, seek support, and make informed decisions.
PSHE at Endeavour also plays a vital role in helping our young people to develop identity, belonging, and self-worth. We want students to understand that their experiences, perspectives, and individuality matter. Through exploration of identity, culture, values, aspirations, and community, students are encouraged to develop confidence in who they are whilst learning to respect and value the experience of others. Our curriculum promotes tolerance, compassion, and social responsibility, preparing students to contribute positively to modern society in Britain, and beyond.
We recognise that preparation for adulthood must be woven throughout our PSHE curriculum from KS2 to Post-126. Students are taught practical and functional skills linked to independence, employment, financial management, healthy lifestyles, community participation, and decision-making. By explicitly teaching these skills within meaningful contexts, we support students to become increasingly prepared for adult life beyond school.
Our PSHE curriculum is delivered through a therapeutic and relational approach that prioritises psychological safety, predictability, and trust. Staff understand the importance of adapting discussions sensitively, recognising triggers, and responding to individual need whilst maintaining clear boundaries and high expectations. We believe that students learn best when they feel safe, respected, and connected.
RSE also forms a vital part of our PSHE curriculum and is delivered via an age-appropriate, inclusive, and therapeutically informed approach. We recognise that many of our students require explicit teaching around relationships, boundaries, consent, online safety, emotional literacy, personal identity, and healthy communication in order to safely navigate the modern world. Our RSE curriculum supports students to understand healthy and unhealthy relationships, recognise risk, respect difference, develop self-awareness, and build the knowledge and confidence needed to form safe, respectful and positive relationships throughout their lives.
Ultimately, the PSHE curriculum at Endeavour aims to empower students to understand themselves, build healthy relationships, make informed choices, and develop the confidence to participate successfully in society. We want our students to leave us with not only the knowledge to stay safe and healthy, but also the resilience, self-belief, and emotional understanding needed to lead meaningful, connected, and independent lives.