‘Growing Minds’: A look at how Regents has revamped PSHE time

Monday afternoon, periods 7 and 8. A walk through the Secondary School sees learning spaces buzzing with activity: some students are passionately debating issues concerning children’s rights, others are working together figuring out how to manage real-life financial budgets, and another year group is investigating the neuroscience behind learning, concluding, of course, that the brain’s capacity to learn is limitless. This is ‘Growing Minds’, a new subject on our curriculum at Regents designed to equip our students with the essential skills and resilient outlook that will shape their path to success. 

Launched at the beginning of this academic year, the programme has replaced PSHE (Personal, Social, Health & Economic education) on the timetable with a more modern and relevant approach. Lessons are innovative, challenging and reflective - they’re aimed at growing our students’ mindsets, stretching them to go that little bit further in everything they do. Each scheme of work falls into one of the four vertical strands which make up the programme: Growing Myself, Growing My Mind, Growing My Community and Growing My Future. Through these four strands our students are nurtured to become motivated and determinedly ambitious learners. They are taught to actively consider how they want to develop themselves, to think about how they want to transform their futures and, beyond that, work out how they will make a positive difference throughout our world.

Growing Minds has been helping to empower our students academically, personally and socially - and through it we have been able to further embed the ambitious learning culture we have established at our school. 

Laura Butler
Growing Minds Coordinator, Regents International School Pattaya