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Healthy minds: the positive impact of a new school curriculum


As the UK government prepares to make personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education compulsory, a recent trial shows how these subjects can be taught successfully. Grace Lordan and Alistair McGuire evaluate the effects of Healthy Minds – a new four-year curriculum for secondary schools – on physical health, emotional health and behaviour. Overall, the effects of this new PSHE curriculum are positive.


Grace Lordan and Alistair McGuire

1 July 2019     Paper Number CEPCP558

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Community Wellbeing programme.