Schools should broaden their coverage and their definition of achievement in PSHE to include the development of pupils’ values and attitudes as well as the acquisition of factual knowledge, and set out clearly what pupils should learn by the end of each key stage.
Schools should ensure pupils have opportunities to develop the necessary skills so that they can analyse, reflect, speculate, discuss and argue constructively about issues in PSHE.
All secondary schools should consider the benefits of specialist PSHE teams with a view to raising the quality, consistency and coherence of their teaching of PSHE.
Where schools involve tutors in teaching PSHE, senior managers should ensure that tutors receive specialist training to help them improve both their subject knowledge and their use of appropriate teaching approaches.
