Learning for Life is the new PSHE

Senior School pupils and parents will notice a seemingly new session appearing in timetables this term, as PSHE, our bold and ambitious Personal, Social and Health Education programme, is rebranded as ‘Learning for Life’.

Devised and coordinated by the Head of Learning for Life and delivered by form tutors as part of the academic curriculum, the programme, comprising fortnightly one-hour lessons, aims to help pupils develop good character, make wise choices, and foster the skills and attributes they will need for a successful life beyond school. Sessions cover a broad range of topics, including digital citizenship, period poverty, TikTok’s privacy settings, how to vote, the science of drugs, controlling relationships, the difference between debit and credit cards and so on. By providing our pupils with a programme that reflects their needs in this modern world, we aspire to investigate and strengthen pupils’ own feelings of well-being and self-worth and to motivate them to discover and create informed opinions about the world around them. 

So why the rebrand?  Miss Dawes, Head of Learning for Life in the Senior School, explains.  'I hope that Learning for Life says what it does on the tin. The rebrand is a reminder that our aim is to help the pupils at KES navigate the world around them and enable them to have the tools they need to make sound decisions both in and out of school.

'This term the Learning for Life programme will cover all sorts of topics from how to develop healthy friendships to how fake news undermines democracy. We are also due to welcome Sabina Osbourne Gray to KES, who will be talking to our Year 10 pupils about drug addiction.'  

Please do look out for Learning for Life parent talks this year – coming soon.