Wasn't the proposed bill going to make it mandatory, in the same way English and Maths is a mandatory subject?

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

Mandatory to offer it. Not mandatory for every child to participate, same as religious education.

I'd have to read the whole thing but that's my take on it.

Very few schools teach it as a subject on its own as a timetabled lesson like English and Maths. It's usually taught in drop days where timetables are collapsed or in tutor times for example. There are it assessments for it. So it can't be compared to core subjects like maths and english. I don't know how it is taught in primary school, I have no idea how it's taught at Evans school!

But they do learn about male and female body parts in biology. I'm interested in what you say though as I've not come across it, so if you could point me in the direction of some information about this then it would be useful for me. Thanks 😊

At present, no school has to teach PSHE as it is NOT a statutory curriculum subject. Even DfE has effectively outsourced responsibility for the curriculum to partially state funded advisory body, PSHE Association.

Even from this Bill, it is only likely to attain FOUNDATION subject status as opposed to CORE subject status therefore rendering the subject virtually glossed over by Ofsted - see Primary PE & Sports Premium that the tax payer covers and that is being used by too many state schools to offset core budget cuts = don't wholly believe what is provided online as a measure of 'true' spend and impact, and certainly sustainability.

In defence of Matt's comments, there is a reported lack in teaching and learning standards as researched by HMI:

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But then you have to explore the lack of wisdom from previous Govt Ministers including Nicky 'Utterly bumptious yet provenly out of touch & incompetent' Morgan:

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'40% of PSHE teaching is less than good. As such, while we will continue to keep the status of PSHE in the curriculum under review, our immediate focus will be on improving the quality of PSHE teaching in our schools.'....AND SHE DIDN'T!

Schools are consequently focused upon HMI inspection priorities and league tables therefore quality of PSHE education from ALL schools is never going to excel until DfE makes it a required priority. Surely children's health and well-being IS a priority and a major gateway to improved behaviour; attainment and achievement. I haven't suggested that ALL parents are feckless to teach their children the important stages in life development, but c'mon...we could ALL benefit from learning further but better still working in collaboration. But Ministers are blind to the reality of what children and young people earnestly need in terms of whole person development as a key stepping stone to contentment and then achievement. Meanwhile, our schools have no other option than to test their little darlings to the hilt....

Retire at 65? If only! We'll be literally pegging it in front of pupils eventually...

I also suggest that you study other comments and research everyday practice...