PSHE and RSE at Beauchamps

Half term focus: Gender Equality

As part of our ongoing commitment to promoting healthy relationships in school, this half term will explore the issue of gender equality. Using cross curricular links with History, we are able to explore a deeper look into women’s history with KS3 classes, linked with their current topic of study. Year 7 will explore the extent to which Elizabeth I can be considered a feminist, year 8 will look at the history of women in sport, with a focus on football, linked to their WW1 topic, and year 9 will explore a series of lessons into the question of how far women achieved gender equality in the 1960s. Our shared school vision includes promoting mutual respect and courtesy, and so we will reinforce messages of what constitutes inappropriate sexualised language and harassment with the students, and encourage students to question gender stereotypes which may lead to this type of behaviour. We will also celebrate International Women’s Day.

PSHE Events this half term: Spring 2022

To celebrate International Women’s Day, as well as the cross curricular lessons with the History Department, students across all Key Stages will examine women’s political equality through an assembly, as well a consideration of some of the issues that women face in sport, with a focus on the Tokyo Olympics and the German Gymnastics Team and Norwegian Volleyball team, who both made statements about women’s clothing regulations in their respective sports.

Year 8 were visited by the N-Act theatre Company who performed a play called ‘Friend’. “‘Friend’ is a play about gangs, county lines, knife crime and the choices we make. The play is set in a courtroom. The audience are the jury. They interact with the characters, asking questions and directing the action to see how making different choices could lead to a different outcome. This is based on a true story.