The aims of PSHE & C at our school are to:

• Equip students with the knowledge, understanding, skills and strategies required to live healthy, safe, productive, capable, responsible and balanced lives.
• Support students to recognise, accept and shape their identities, to understand and accommodate difference and change, to manage emotions and to communicate constructively in a variety of settings.
• Develop students with an understanding of themselves, empathy and the ability to work with others.
• Develop students with core ‘life skills’ to encourage and support independence
• Develop self-confidence and self-esteem and to make informed choices regarding personal and social issues.

Collaborative Provision

The Collaborative Provision uses the Semi-formal EQUALS curriculum to support their learning. Due to the wide breadth of PSHE & C, a number of the following EQUALS modules cover the learning that is linked to PSHE & C.

• My Independence – My Dressing & Undressing, My Shopping, My Cooking / Food Technology, My Travel Training.
• My Physical Well-Being – Physical Activities, PE, Sport, Games and Aquatics, Mental Health and Well-Being, Healthy Eating and Healthy Lifestyle.
• My Play and Leisure – There are very many functions of play which support the students to do the following. Experience interaction with others, learn about social interaction, practice and develop social communication, encourage the making of friendships, learn new skills in a safe environment, explore your own body and senses, explore the surrounding world, develop a safe understanding of self-emotions and others, develop fine and gross motor skills and flexibility of thought.
• My Communication – imperative communication, following instructions, declarative communication, dynamic communication, narratives, formal social interactions with familiar and unfamiliar people, personalised reading and writing, non-verbal behavioural communication, peer to peer communication, augmentative and alternative communication.       

Structured Provision

The Structured Provision uses the informal EQUALS curriculum to support their learning. Due to the wide breadth of PSHE & C, a number of the following EQUALS modules cover the learning that is linked to PSHE & C.

• My Sensory Play – Sensorimotor Play, Relational Play, Functional Play, Symbolic Play, Socio-dramatic Play.
• My Communication – Imperative communication, Declarative communication, Formal social interactions with familiar and unfamiliar people, Non-verbal behavioural communications, Peer to peer communication, Augmentative and alternative communication.
• My Physical Well-being – Physical Activity, Mental Health and Well-Being.
• My Independence - My Dressing & Undressing, My Travel Training, My Shopping, My Cooking.

Sensory Provision

The Sensory Provision uses the Pre-formal EQUALS curriculum to support their learning. Due to the wide breadth of PSHE & C, a number of the following EQUALS modules cover the learning that is linked to PSHE & C.

• Independence, Communication, Physical Well-being, Play & Interaction & Relax.

The pre-formal EQUALS curriculum is designed to be holistic, so that all the parts of the curriculum are intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole. Everything we teach works through everything else, and it is not possible to think of these modules as being separate from each other. There should not be a time when we are teaching just Communication, just Well-Being,  or just Play & Interaction play, because we should always be thinking about all the strands working together in both our teaching and our planning. Every moment of every day is a learning opportunity and there should be no time when learning is not taking place.