Courses
We offer a broad and balanced curriculum, for key stage 3 (Years 7-9), key stage 4 (Years 10 and 11) and key stage 5 (Years 12 and 13 - Sixth Form). Click the appropriate button below to find the details for each subject offered in each key stage.
Overview
Character Education (non-examination)
Introduction
To prepare students for a world we can’t envisage, so when they’re stuck with something they’ve never seen before, they choose to think instead of remember.
Our students will develop a robust set of skills and attributes that will enable them to face life’s challenges and opportunities confidently and to articulate their feelings and opinions. Our ambition is to help our students develop a survival kit to life’s challenges, and build their independence and resilience. Our students will be happy, healthy and stay safe.
Our character curriculum is as accessible to all learners as it is creative. Through a thought provoking and informative character curriculum, our students will learn how to become confident and active citizens of modern Britain, who treat everyone with respect and kindness, celebrating their diversity whilst understanding what connects them to their community.
Qualification
This is a non-examined subject.
Course leader
L Moor
Assessment
Through the ethics and character programme, you will actively engage in opportunities to assess your employability skills of leadership, organisation, resilience, initiative and communication (LORIC) and wider personal development opportunities.
Curriculum
Curriculum roadmap: character education
Curriculum roadmap: RE and spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) elements of character education
Topics
- Different types of healthy relationships, signs of abuse and bullying consent and power.
- Manage risks and stay safe, how to lead a healthy and well-balanced lifestyle.
- Managing your own mental resilience, self-confidence and self-esteem.
- Recognise triggers and coping strategies to manage stress and anxiety.
- Issues of diversity, equality and tolerance, and your rights and responsibilities in the world, and how to tackle extremism and racism.
- Becoming an active citizen and the many ways that you can impact on the world around you: British values and democracy, environmental issues and financial education.
- You will learn to articulate your skills and attributes, and be fully aware of the many different career pathways open to you.
Note: in secondary schools, parents have the right to withdraw their children from the non-statutory/non-science components of sex education within RSE up to and until 3 terms before the child turns 16. Further information and a copy of the form to complete in order to request withdrawal is available in the Chorus Trust Relationships & Sex Education Policy (www.chorustrust.org/policies).
Note: parents have the right to withdraw their children from religious education and/or collective worship. Further information and a copy of the form to complete in order to request withdrawal is available in the RE withdrawal application form (www.chorustrust.org/policies).
Skills and requirements
Skills learned
- Manage risks and stay safe, how to lead a healthy and well-balanced lifestyle.
- Recognise triggers and coping strategies to manage stress and anxiety.
- Articulate your skills and attributes, and be fully aware of the many different career pathways open to you.
Beyond the classroom
Future pathways
By participating in character education, we hope that you will be well prepared to contribute positively to your community, and have happy, fulfilling and meaningful relationships with others.
Resources
These resources will provide more information on some of the subjects covered. Further information and sources of help are available on our wellbeing page.
Relationships and sex education (RSE)
- Government: RSE guides for parents
- Talking openly to young people about sex education
- NSPCC: talking to children about difficult topics
Preventing radicalisation and hate
Protected characteristics
Age
Disability
Gender reassignment
Marriage and civil partnership
- Marriage and civil partnership discrimination information
- Marriage and civil partnership discrimination explained video
