PSHCE

Curriculum Intent

PSHE is taught with the intention of helping our students to make informed decisions in order to keep them happy, healthy and safe. We aim to educate them about acceptable and unacceptable behaviours, risk management, the law and where to get help and support. Our curriculum aims to prepare our pupils for adult life, to promote tolerance and respect and encourage them to express their ideas in a safe environment.

(Curriculum subject to change due to scheduling)

PSHCE Curriculum

Year 7Year 8Year 9Year 10Year 11

PSHE and Citizenship are combined in Year 7 therefore elements of both are taught as ‘PSHCE’

Unit 1: Healthy Lifestyles and Mental Wellbeing

  • L1: An introduction to healthy lifestyles and mental wellbeing
  • L2: Healthy eating
  • L3: What makes a healthy lifestyle

Unit 2: Financial Wellbeing

  • L1: Buying
  • L2: Your money your choice
  • L3: What do banks do?

Unit 3: Keeping Safe

  • L1: Personal safety* Police
  • L2: Keeping safe: Online relationships
  • L3: Peer on Peer abuse: Online bullying
  • L4: Knife crime
  • L5: Legal and illegal drugs
  • L6: Smoking
  • L7: Alcohol
  • L8: First Aid: Basic treatment for common injuries

Unit 4: Relationships and Sex

  • L1: Healthy Relationships: Friendships
  • L2: Parenting
  • L3: Puberty
  • L4: Periods
  • L5: Hygiene
  • L6: Relationships- Rights and Responsibilities

PSHE

Unit 1: Healthy Lifestyles and Mental Wellbeing

  • L1: Self-esteem
  • L2: Emotional health
  • L3: Oral hygiene
  • L4: Improving our wellbeing

Unit 2: Keeping Safe

  • L1: Smoking
  • L2: Cannabis: The facts
  • L3: Cannabis: The Risks
  • L4: Peer on peer abuse: types of bullying and characteristics
  • L5: Peer on Peer abuse: Sexting
  • L6 Peer on peer- Exploitation
  • L7: Coping with loss
  • L8. Personal safety: vaccination and immunisations
  • L9:First Aid: Basic Life Saving Skills

* Knife Awareness police

Unit 3: Relationships and Sex

  • L1: Romance at Trinity High
  • L2: Romance at Trinity High
  • L3: Romance at Trinity High
  • L4: Contraception
  • L5: Pregnancy Options
  • L6: FGM

CITIZENSHIP

Unit 1: Rights and Diversity in the UK

  • L1: Who am I?
  • L2: Who am I? Part 2
  • L3: Equality
  • L4: Protected characteristics
  • L5: Customs, Values and Traditions in Britain
  • L6: Culture Box
  • L7: Diversity in the UK over time

Unit 2: Financial Wellbeing

  • L1: World of work
  • L2: The Dream
  • L3: What’s My Line
  • L4: Reality Check
  • L5: Payslips and Earnings

Unit 3: Democracy and Justice

  • L1: Law and Justice
  • L2: Democracy
  • L3: Political Parties and the Cabinet
  • L4: Government Spending
  • L5: Welfare System
  • L6: Local Government
  • L7: Role of the Police
  • L8: Monarchy
  • L9: Courts and Tribunals
  • L10: Aims of Punishment & Prison

PSHE

Unit 1: Healthy Lifestyles and Mental Wellbeing

  • L1: Body image
  • L2: Healthy eating and the importance of a healthy lifestyle
  • L3: Obesity
  • L4: Wellbeing

Unit 2: Keeping Safe

  • L1: Drugs and the law
  • L2: Drugs and risks
  • L3: Alcohol
  • L4. County lines* Police
  • L5: Extremism
  • L6: Peer on peer abuse: bullying and the role of the bystander
  • L7: Peer on Peer abuse: Relationship Abuse
  • L8:First Aid: Life Saving Skills

Unit 3: Relationships and Sex

  • L1: Relationships
  • L2: Gender and sexuality
  • L3: Consent and being ready for sex
  • L4: Contraception and STIs
  • L5: Child exploitation
  • L6: HIV awareness
  • L7* George House Trust

CITIZENSHIP

Unit 1: Equality and Human Rights

  • L1: Wealth and Poverty in the UK
  • L2: World Poverty
  • L3: Homelessness
  • L4: United Nations
  • L5: Voluntary Organisations

Unit 2: Financial Wellbeing

  • L1: Income and Debt
  • L2: Budgeting
  • L3: Consumer Rights
  • L4: Pensions

Unit 3: Global Citizenship

  • L1: Asylum Seekers and Refugees
  • L2: The Rwandan Genocide
  • L3: The Rwandan Genocide
  • L4: The Rwandan Genocide
  • L5: The Rwandan Genocide
  • L5: Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery
  • L6: The Death Penalty
  • L7: Amnesty International and the Death Penalty

Unit 4: Societal issues

  • L1: The Influence of the Media
  • L2: Social Media, are we hooked?
  • L3: Domestic violence
  • L4: Knife crime * police
  • L5: Gun crime * Mothers Against Violence

PSHCE

Unit 1: Healthy Lifestyles and Mental Wellbeing

Mental health awareness

Unit 2: Financial Wellbeing

This is covered in form time

Unit 3: Keeping Safe

  • Knife crime 1
  • Knife-free
  • Radicalisation and extremism
  • Dignity and Respect
  • Gambling
  • Drugs
  • Alcohol

Unit 4: Relationships and Sex

  • *I am Sam
  • Forming positive relationships
  • Online relationships
  • Relationship Abuse
  • Sexual Consent and the Law

Citizenship

  • Democracy
  • Compulsory voting
  • Financial wellbeing

PSHCE

Unit 1: Healthy Lifestyles and Mental Wellbeing

  • Stress and exams
  • Mental health and wellbeing

Unit 2: Financial Wellbeing

This is covered in form time

Unit 3: Keeping Safe

  • Online safety: online identity
  • Peer on peer abuse: sexual harassment
  • Pornography

Unit 4: Relationships and Sex

  • Screening and self examination
  • Reproductive health and fertility
  • Parenthood

Citizenship

  • Communism vs Capitalism
  • Financial wellbeing

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