1st Edition

What Students Want from their PSHE in Secondary School How Listening to Student Voice Can Help you Build a Great Programme

By Angela Milliken-Tull Copyright 2025
186 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Speechmark

186 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Speechmark

186 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Speechmark

This thought-provoking text stems from the voices of young people in secondary schools, and what they want from their PSHE education. The book focuses on personal development, an aspect of PSHE that is often side-lined in favour of a more topic-based approach, to consider how PSHE lessons can help young people build the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to navigate a fast-changing world.... Read more

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

 

Chapter 1: PSHE challenges and health ambitions

 

Chapter 2: Don’t keep telling us what we already know - Monitoring progress in PSHE

 

Chapter 3: Not another video, worksheet, quiz… Injecting variety into PSHE lessons

 

Chapter 4: We are uniquely transient.   A brief introduction to the amazing teenage brain

 

Chapter 5: If you don’t take this seriously, why should I? The importance of role models

 

Chapter 6: So, what has this got to do with me?  The importance of relevance in PSHE

 

Chapter 7: Spare me the lecture!  Effective pedagogy in PSHE

 

Chapter 8: This is so embarrassing! Managing student and staff embarrassment in PSHE

 

Chapter 9: Give us life skills! Providing the skills students want and need.

 

Chapter 10: Stop your bucket from overflowing. Teacher wellbeing

 

 

References

Index

Biography

Angela Milliken-Tull has over 25 years’ experience working in education and public health. She has worked in the secondary and university sector and is a public health specialist. She has held regional and national roles developing a range of training programmes and resources and is committed to health improvement through effective education delivered by confident, empowered teachers. Angela is the Director and Co-Founder of Chameleon PDE.

“All our pupils, irrespective of their educational setting, have an entitlement to high-quality learning and teaching in PSHE education. This book, and the ethos behind it, contributes another step towards achieving this crucial moral, social and educational purpose.” - John Rees, PSHE Advisor