Personal Social Health Education

Alive to the World is a new programme of Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) based on modern research which indicates that there are established patterns of behaviour which promote human well-being, and that these can be taught.

This film has been made possible through the generosity of the Knights of Malta.

"A well developed personal social health and citizenship education programme provides all pupils with excellent, age appropriate guidance on social and health issues."

"The excellent personal social, health and citizenship education programme challenges pupils to consider the circumstances of others including those less fortunate than themselves."

Quotes from Ofsted Inspection Report for Westminster Cathedral Choir School, 2011

  • Provides the material for a regular weekly class
  • Covers all the current government targets for PSHE and Citizenship Education
  • Student books are fully supported by teacher manuals
  • Can be used for whole class teaching, for circle time and for school assemblies
  • Can also be used within other subject areas and as reading books
  • Emphasises the importance of marriage and family
  • Is based on a series of engaging stories which put their message across in a non-judgmental way
  • Additional stories covering the more sensitive areas of Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) are flexibly available as downloads
  • Books are very suitable for use by parents at home and by home schoolers
  • The programme will run from ages 6-18

The books are attractively illustrated and produced and are popular with children. See The Books for sample chapters.

ICT resources
Alive to the World continues to be developed and will be supported by interactive computer programs for students and teachers.
 



What people are saying...

In just a year, the Alive to the World programme has become a fixture in our School life. The ease with which the themes encountered in the classroom can be taken up in form assemblies to the whole School has been especially useful. Besides this exchange of ideas across the whole School, we have also found that the programme communicates our ethos effectively to parents. We include the learning objectives in our weekly newsletter, so that parents can understand more clearly, and welcome, the values we try to communicate to our children.

Robert O’Brien, Head of PSHE, Westminster Cathedral Choir School
 
The Hermeneutic of Continuity
 

I thought the Caring and Sharing book gives a real visual imagery of what your parents tell you but which you haven’t before been able to see. I also liked all the facts I learnt.

Daniel, aged 12
 
The Universe

See us in The Universe!
 
The Sower

See us in The Sower!
 
The Catholic Herald

And in the Catholic Herald!
 
MercatorNet

MercatorNet article