Summary:
This Key Stage 3 PSHE Education course provides a comprehensive and engaging programme of study which has been structured around the 2008 PSHE non-statutory Programme of Study to provide a progressive `spiral` approach to the teaching and learning of PSHE Education.

PSHE Education 3 builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding of the first book and continues to support the Every Child Matters aims and outcomes:
• Be healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy and achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic well-being

Each topic:
• is broken down into a series of self-contained lessons which build in review and reflection opportunities
• progressively develops pupils skills and understanding of the key concepts within PSHE Education
• takes an active learning approach with a wide variety of classroom-friendly activities and stimulus material – allowing pupils to learn through doing
• offers opportunities for summative assessment.

PSHE Education 3 pupil`s book is comprehensively supported by:
• PSHE Education 3 Teacher`s Resource Book which provides comprehensive guidance about each lesson in the pupil book, background information and worksheets
• PSHE Education 3 Dynamic Learning Network CD-ROM which provides all the resources from the Pupil`s Book and Teacher`s Resource Book, as well as additional resources, for use via an interactive whiteboard or data projector.

• Covers the key concepts, range and content of the 2008 KS3 personal, social, health and economic education non-statuory programme of study through an active learning approach.
• Helps develop key skills such as decision making, preparing for adult life, reflection and learning through experience.
• Integrates Assessment for Learning techniques and also provides opportunities for more formal summative assessment.
• Comprehensively supported by a Teacher's Resource Book and CD-ROM - providing a complete programe of study for KS3 PSHE Education to aid both specialist and non-specialists.
• Addresses the Every Child Matters learning outcomes.

Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 1 Starting Out
Lesson 1 How will we work together?
CHAPTER 2 Mine and other people’s values
Lesson 2 What do I value and why?
Lesson 3 What do I feel about other people’s values?
CHAPTER 3 Planning for the future
Lesson 4 What’s out there?
Lesson 5 What are my options?
CHAPTER 4 Living in my communities
Lesson 6 What makes a successful community?
Lesson 7 What can cause problems in communities?
Lesson 8 How can I contribute to my community?
CHAPTER 5 Me and other people
Lesson 9 How can we cope with stress?
Lesson 10 How can we respond under pressure?
Lesson 11 How can we balance education and leisure?
CHAPTER 6 Me as a consumer
Lesson 12 What are my consumer rights?
Lesson 13 What is ethical shopping?
CHAPTER 7 Planning for my future
Lesson 14 How can I improve my career chances?
Lesson 15 How can I be enterprising?
Lesson 16 What are enterprising skills?
Lesson 17 How does what I do at school affect my financial future?
CHAPTER 8 Taking care of my emotions
Lesson 18 How do I manage my feelings?
Lesson 19 Is anybody perfect?
Lesson 20 What happens when relationships break down?
Lesson 21 How do we cope with loss and bereavement?
CHAPTER 9 Sex and relationships
Lesson 22 What if I don’t want to?
Lesson 23 What are STIs?
Lesson 24 What is contraception?
Lesson 25 Is there equal respect?
Lesson 26 How do we feel about ‘difference’?
CHAPTER 10 Drugs
Lesson 27 What do I need to know about drugs?
Lesson 28 How do I manage situations involving drugs?
Lesson 29 Which drugs and what risks?
CHAPTER 11 You and your health
Lesson 30 Who can I talk to about health problems?
CHAPTER 12 Review
Lesson 31 How far have I come?

About the Author(s):
Stephen De Silva has been a successful leader of both PSHE / Religious Education departments and Pastoral Year Teams. He has managed young people’s sexual health and drugs services in the NHS and is an experienced assessor for the Cabinet Office “Charter Mark” scheme.

Lesley de Meza, a Member of the Interim Council of the PSHE Association, is a leading practitioner, trainer and writer known internationally for her PSHE Education work.  She has worked with many organisations including: DAATs, DfCSF, DoH, Home Office, LEAs, Metropolitan Police, PCTs, QCA, schools, universities and youth services.

She works as an Associate Trainer for the National Children's Bureau and Brook.

Recently she worked as part of a QCA project team on Personal and Social Development curriculum materials and case studies.

Readership:
Year 9 students