PSHE & Citizenship
Year 7
PSHE - Health and relationships
How to manage transition
How to assess and manage risks to health and to stay, and keep others, safe.
How to identify and access help, advice and support
How to recognise and manage emotions within a range of relationships
Personal safety and protection, reducing risk and minimising harm in different settings (including social settings, the street and during travel).
PSHE - Relationships and Well Being
How to develop and maintain a variety of healthy relationships within a range of social/cultural contexts.
How to deal with risky or negative relationships including all forms of bullying (including the distinct challenges posed by online bullying) and abuse, sexual and other violence and online encounters.
Factual information about legal and illegal substances, including alcohol, volatile substances, tobacco and cannabis.
The importance of taking increased responsibility for their own personal hygiene.
PSHE - Well Being
Managing loss including bereavement, separation and divorce
Recognise that the way in which personal qualities, attitudes, skills and achievements are evaluated by others, affects confidence and self-esteem.
What constitutes a balanced diet and its benefits.
Citizenship - Rights and responsibilities
Rights of a child.
Legal age and responsibilities.
Local government (council) services
Councillor
Create a campaign
Citizenship - Democracy and Justice
Youth Parliament
Student Council
Democracy
Citizenship - Identities and Diversities
Personal Identity
Diversity (local, national and global)
Disability
Year 8
Citizenship - Democracy and Justice
Causes of law breaking
Aims of punishment
Judiciary roles
Members of Parliament
General Elections
Citizenship - Identities and Diversities
Regional and national differences
Charities
Culture and tradition within the UK
Citizenship - Global Community
Commonwealth
European Union
World Health Organisation (WHO)
PSHE - Living in the wider world
Identify own strengths, interests, skills and qualities as part of the personal review and planning process, including their value to future employability.
The laws relating to young people's permitted hours and types of employment.
Gambling (including on-line)and its consequences, why people might choose to gamble and how the gambling industry encourages this
PSHE - Health and wellbeing
Benefits of physical activity and exercise and the importance of sleep.
Personal and social risks and consequences of substance use and misuse, including the benefits of not drinking alcohol (or delaying the age at which to start)and the benefits of not smoking including not harming others with second-hand smoke.
PSHE - Relationships
Contraception, including the condom and pill.
Importance of friendship and to begin to consider love and sexual relationships in this context
Understand what expectations might be of having a girl/boyfriend.
To learn about the law in relation to consent (including the legal age of consent for sexual activity, the legal definition of consent and the responsibility in law for the seeker of consent to ensure that consent has been given).
Year 10
Citizenship - Identities and Diversity
Multiculturalism
Ethnicity and racism
Asylum and Migration
Citizenship - Rights and responsibilities
Employment rights
Consumer rights
Animal rights
Social Networking
Citizenship - Democracy and Justice
Law making
Political Parties
Democracy vs dictatorship
Types of Government
PSHE - Relationships
Accessing and the correct use of contraception, negotiating condom use, reinforcing and building on learning in Key Stage 3
Recognise the impact of drugs and alcohol on choices and sexual behaviour
How to access such organisations and other sources of information, advice and support
Develop an awareness of exploitation, bullying and harassment in relationships
PSHE - Health and wellbeing
Characteristics of emotional and mental health and the causes, symptoms and treatments of some mental and emotional health disorders (including stress, anxiety and depression)
Strategies for managing mental health including stress, anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide, and sources of help and support
About STIs, including HIV/AIDS, how to protect themselves and others from infection and how to respond if they feel they or others are at risk
Personal safety and protection, reducing risk and minimising harm in different settings (including social settings, the street, on roads and during travel)
PSHE - Living in the Wider World
Unacceptability of all forms of discrimination, and the need to challenge it in the wider community including the workplace
Work Experience
Rights and responsibilities at work (including their roles as workers, and the roles and responsibilities of employers and unions)
Recognise and manage the influences on their financial decisions
Year 11
Citizenship - Identities and diversity
Stereotypes and divisions in society
Extremisim
Gang Culture
Discrimination
Citizenship - Democracy and justice
Pressure groups
United Nations
NATO
Private vs Public sector
Effectiveness of the criminal justice system
Citizenship - Rights and responsibilities
Global Warming
Sustainable Development
Agenda 21
Big Brother Society
PSHE
Teenage Parenthood
The role of sex in the media and its impact on sexuality
Diversity in sexual attraction and developing sexuality, including sources of support and reassurance and how to access them
FOR MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions regarding the PSHE or Citizenship Curriculum at The Wordsley School, please contact Miss K Lewis (Assistant Curriculum Achievement Lead) on (01384) 816015.