Key Concepts and Skills

Hillfort Specific

Embody the school’s values
Kindness, resilience, challenge, courage, aspiration

Cultural isolation
Embracing multiculturalism and fighting the corrosive effects of intolerance.

Closing the vocabulary gap

PSHE Concepts

Identity	Personal qualities, attitudes, skills, attributes and achievements and what influences these; understanding and maintaining boundaries around their personal privacy, including online.
Relationships	Including different types and in different settings, including online.
Healthy balanced lifestyle	Physically and emotionally, within relationships, exercise and rest, spending and saving and lifestyle choices.
Risk and safety	Identification, assessment and how to manage risk, including behaviour and strategies to employ in different settings, including online.
Diversity	…in all its forms. Valuing and respecting diversity.
Change	Resilience and the skills, strategies and ‘inner resources’ we can draw on when faced with challenging change or circumstance, including bereavement.
Rights	(including the notion of universal human rights), responsibilities (including fairness and justice) and consent (in different contexts).
Power	How it is used and encountered in a variety of contexts including online, how it manifests through behaviours including bullying, persuasion, coercion and how it can be challenged and managed.

PSHE Skills

Understanding self and others	Recognise own and other people’s personality traits, individual preferences and characteristics. Recognise challenging behaviours and the negative effects these can have on relationships.
Working with others	Be able to work with others and demonstrate negotiation and compromise.
Compassion and empathy	Demonstrate respectful interactions.
Assertiveness	Understand the skill of being assertive, say ‘No’ and mean it, speak using ‘I’.
Decision making	Know how to reach a conclusion or resolution after consideration of issues or facts. Recognise peer influence. Develop strategies for resisting negative peer influence.