Developing Healthy Attitudes

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Project Outline

The Developing Healthy Attitudes Project is commissioned by the South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit through Learn Sheffield. The aim is to support schools to deliver high quality, student voice and trauma informed RSHE provision across Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield.

We aim to do this by providing increased knowledge and resources for schools to enrich and strengthen their Personal Development Strategy and therefore ultimately equip young people with increased knowledge and skills to support the aims of the South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit.

The South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit aims to reduce violent crime using preventative public health methods. Its aims closely reflect the areas covered by the DFE statutory Guidance for Relationships Sex and Health Education 2019. This project aims to enrich the universal RSHE provision to all students in South Yorkshire, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield thus giving the opportunity for mass exposure to the SYVRU aims.

The Project consists of the following 8 areas:

• Access to a Developing Healthy Attitudes Primary RSHE Curriculum and Secondary RSHE Curriculum. This builds on the Sheffield Doncaster version which has been available to all schools since 2021
• An Early Years Appendix to the RSHE curriculum
• A Post 16 Appendix to the RSHE Curriculum
• A SEND Appendix to the RSHE Curriculum
• Access to an Updated Developing Healthy Attitudes Student Wellbeing Resource. This provides a wealth of information for teachers and other professionals working with young people in South Yorkshire. It has local links to further specialised support for young people.
• A pilot project with 16 schools across the county using video and other diverse and inclusive resources for the company Life lessons.
• A Workshop and Student Voice project across 10 South Yorkshire Secondary Schools and 4 Youth Parliaments in the county on Young People’s Experience of Sexual Harassment in Schools
• A Safeguarding Risk Assessment resource to encourage schools to safely recruit lived experience speakers, workshops, and resources to enrich the curriculum. It is hoped this will then lead to a list of Approved Suppliers