It was called 'lifeskills' when i was at school, whats it called now?

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When I was at secondary school we had a class called Lifeskills. I was learning about sex, drugs, relationships, contraception, money, very basic politics and moral issues etc

Id love to teach this subject and have been thinking about it since i left school and now ive got the opportunity to wipe the slate and start my new career from scratch with new goals and new ambitions so im seriously starting to consider teaching and teaching this, I just dont know what its called in schools nowadays!

Any ideas?

I thought it was called citizenship these days. May be wrong, there were no such things when I went to school

We had PSE - Personal and social education.

OP - you need to do a PGSE so have a look at subjects available at various universities.

ill google that velcro thanks :) ive heard it called something apreviated but i cant think for the life of me what!

love the name by the way

PSE thats it! thanks katharine

yea im going to look into all the qualifications and things i need, i need a degree first dont i? then go on to the pgse after?

At Dc's school it's PHSE

Yep. Sorry, I assumed you had a degree. Everybody does except me :(

katharing ive got half a degree that ive put on hold while i had dd, its completely unrelated though and with completly unreliable prospects so now im a single mum i need something more permanent and secure

thanks rimmer

does anyone know if they have seperate teachers specificly for this or pupil support teachers or just any old teacher that will! we had a mix at our school.

You could finish your degree with OU, transferring your points already gained. Then go onto do a PGCE.

Not taught by a specialist teacher, in my children's school their form tutor taught it in addition to whatever other subject was their speciality subject.
So you'd need a degree, a PGCE and to complete your NQT year before looking for a job that fitted your plans.
There are alternative routes, especially if you get into providing courses in lifeskills for those children with additional needs. Have a look around.

The lesson that these things are covered in has different names in different schools. Some egs I know of:
Pd - Personal Development
Citizenship
Life Course
PSE
PSHE
RE (obviously it's not RE, but some schools teach it in the RE time in the curriculum)

The subject you're talking about is now called PSHCEE by the government Personal Sociale Health Citizenship and Economic Education. Some years back there was a big drive by the government to have specialist teachers of this subject however since the recession it has gone back to being a subject taught by form teachers or people with timetable gaps. I know you are looking for something secure so I will warn you that teaching is not the secure profession it once was, my school is going through its second round of redundancies in 2 years and there is no shortage of people to teach in this subject area. If you were a secondary physics or maths teacher then your prospects would be very good but outside of the shortages teaching is not the bed of roses people think!

'If you were a secondary physics or maths teacher then your prospects would be very good but outside of the shortages teaching is not the bed of roses people think!'

Have you tried lying down in a bed of roses? Looks good but full of thorns and greenfly? Black spot and weird fungal infections? Yet expected to look good for 9 months of the year?
Yup, teaching is a bed of roses alright.

I'd second the last comment - and add a further warning. This govt is not keen on those kind of touchy feely (and incredibly important) subjects and the citizenship teachers at my gaffe are very concerned about their future. If you want to do an RE or Philosophy type degree for the degree's sake, and then maybe a PGCE afterwards, it might be worth it, but I really wouldn't advise embarking on a 4year plan for a job that might well not exist (or at least, be vvv competitive) when you get there.

Sorry to be so negative; it is a great subject IMO. Just got to be realistic

Kritur's comments, not Riverside's.

:-P

It's called PCOB.

It's called PSHEE now.

In most schools, it is delivered by the form tutor, but there are some schools who have specialist teachers delivering PSHE and Citizenship.

My dyslexic son calls it PSABCDE

It's a useful subject, we find, in year 10 and 11 when they use the time to discuss 6th form colleges and options (our children all have to leave) and also work experiences in year 10. As well as the normal things they do under that heading. I notice my godson, who went to a different school, did a citizenship short course, which ours don't do. I don't know if that was extra to his timetable or covered in these PSABCDE lessons.

My dds secondary school calls this VIP - Values in Practice.