PSHE – Learn It Live It!
Our PSHE Curriculum is carefully designed around the recommended three strands:
- Health and Wellbeing
- Relationships and Sex Education
- Living in the Wider World
As with our academic subject curriculums, in planning our PSHE curriculum, we have determined the knowledge that will be taught and the reason why it forms part of our curriculum. This reasoning will include but not be limited to, the statutory guidance, guidance from professional associations and our local context.
To maximise impact, a fortnightly PSHE lesson is timetabled across all year groups. Carefully selected Enrichment Days, for example Prison Me No Way (Year 9), complement this programme.
You can find out more about our PSHE curriculum and how we sequence learning across each year here.
You can find out more about the curriculum content in each strand, and where this is taught across the curriculum below:
Health and Wellbeing
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Unit Overview |
| Year 7 |
Who Am I? (PSHE)
- Introduction to PSHE
- Who am I? (Identity)
- Self-awareness
- New beginnings
- Building resilience
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Healthy Lifestyles (PSHE)
- Introduction to puberty
- Personal Hygiene
- Growing up
- Self-esteem and body image
- Physical and emotional changes
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| Year 8 |
Choices (PSHE)
- Consent
- Identity LGBQTA+
- Drugs
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Emotional Wellbeing (PSHE)
- Mental Health and emotional wellbeing
- Healthy mind
- Depression / Anxiety
- Bereavement
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Resilience (PSHE)
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| Year 9 |
Lifestyle Choices (PSHE)
- Substance abuse
- Alcohol · Smoking / vaping
- Illegal Highs
- Ethics of drug use
- Drug laws
- Anti-social behaviour / gangs
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| Year 10 |
Mental Wellbeing
- Role Models
- Leadership
- Addiction
- Self-harm / suicide
- Eating Disorders
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| Year 11 |
Staying Safe
- Live streaming / virtual reality / augmented / gaming
- Gambling
- Gangs, anti-social behaviour and knife crime
- Drugs / Festivals / Parties
- Psychoactive Drugs · County Lines
- Cosmetics and Aesthetics
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Relationships and Sex Education
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Unit Overview |
| Year 7 |
Healthy Relationships (PSHE)
- Healthy relationships
- Friendships – What makes a good friend?
- Peer Pressure, influence and toxic friendships
- Bullying
- Avoiding dangerous relationships and setting boundaries
- Puberty – Physical and emotional changes
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Reproduction (Science)
- Adolescence and puberty in humans
- Sexual reproduction in humans
- Male and female reproductive systems
- Fertilisation and embryo formation
- Menstrual cycle and contraception
- Pregnancy and foetal development
- Birth
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| Year 8 |
RSE (PSHE)
- Introduction to sex, relationships and lifestyle choices
- Break ups
- STIs / HIV
- Introduction to contraception
- Consent
- LGBQT+
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| Year 9 |
Self-Awareness / relationships RSE (PSHE)
- Positive body image
- Sexting
- Controlling relationships
- Domestic abuse / violence
- LGBQTA+ relationships
- Homophobia / Transphobia
- Racism
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| Year 10 |
Relationships (PSHE)
- Safe sex
- Positive relationships
- Unhealthy relationships, domestic violence and rape
- Teenage pregnancy and abortion
- Parenting
- FGM
- Pornography (Myth vs reality)
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The Family (RS)
- Marriage
- Forced Marriages
- The Family
- The Elderly
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| Year 11 |
Biology (Science)
- Contraception (B5)
- Menstrual cycle (B5)
- Sexual / asexual reproduction (B6)
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RSE (PSHE)
- Sexual assault Domestic abuse
- Pornography materials / attitudes
- Pornography vs real life
- FGM – Law
- FGM – Campaign
- HIV / AIDS
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Living in the Wider World
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Unit Overview |
| Year 7 |
British Values (PSHE)
- Introduction to British Values
- Multi-cultural Britain
- Democracy
- Tolerance
- Rule of Law
- Individual Liberty
- Mutual Respect
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Careers (PSHE)
- Why is education important?
- Future success
- Setting goals for the future
- Employment skills
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Online (E) Safety (PSHE)
- Digital Footprint
- Cyberbullying
- Online influences
- Online grooming
- Staying safe online
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| Year 8 |
Money Management (PSHE)
- Introduction to money management
- Rights and responsibilities
- Budgeting
- Cost of living
- Understanding debt
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Financial Awareness (PSHE)
- Ethical spending
- Moving out
- Learning to drive
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E-Safety Part 1 (Computing – Unit 8.1)
- How do students manage the dangers of posting online?
- Why is Digital Footprint important and how is it linked to security?
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E-Safety Part 2 (Computing – Unit 8.6)
- What type of content is it inappropriate to share and what can be done if it is?
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| Year 9 |
Careers (PSHE)
- Raising aspirations
- Decision making
- Employability skills
- Social media
- Smashing stereotypes
- STEM
- CV writing / personal statements
- Labour Market Information
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Crime Awareness (PSHE)
- Criminal Justice System
- Radicalisation
- Religious extremism
- Prevent
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E-Safety (Computing – Unit 9.1)
- How to stay safe and know what information to share
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Networks HTML and Cyber Security (Computing – Unit 9.4)
- What is the internet and WWW?
- What are the most common forms of cyber attack?
- How can network systems be protected from attacks?
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| Year 10 |
Diversity (RS)
- What is diversity?
- Diversity in Britain (British Values)
- Racism
- Radicalisation / Extremism
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Careers (Work Experience Preparation) (PSHE)
- Introduction to work experience
- Career journey
- Post 16 Pathways
- Health and Safety
- Employability passport / skills
- Work Experience preparation
- Work Experience reflection and evaluation
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| Year 11 |
Money Management (PSHE)
- Payment methods
- Budgeting
- Borrowing money
- Inflation
- Currency
- Exchange rates
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Global Ethics Society (RS)
- Business ethics
- Global conflicts
- Global inequalities
- Religion in the UK
- Religion in the media
- Environmental ethics
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| Subjects across the school, including but not limited to Religious Education, geography and history, and computing will develop this further knowledge and understanding in this area |
