Year 10 PSHE
Curriculum:
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Mental Health
Students Learn:
- How to manage challenges during adolescence
- How to reframe negative thinking
- Strategies to promote mental health and emotional wellbeing
- About the signs of emotional or mental ill-health
- How to access support and treatment
- About the portrayal of mental health in the media
- How to challenge stigma, stereotypes and misinformation
Financial Decision Making
Students Learn:
- How to effectively budget and evaluate savings options
- How to prevent and manage debt, including understanding credit rating and pay day lending
- How data is generated, collected and shared, and the influence of targeted advertising
- How thinking errors, e.g. Gambler’s fallacy, can increase susceptibility to gambling
- Strategies for managing influences related to gambling, including online
- About the relationship between gambling and debt
- About the law and illegal financial activities, including fraud and cybercrime
- How to manage risk in relation to financial activities
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Healthy Relationships
Students Learn:
- About relationship values and the role of pleasure in relationships
- About assumptions, misconceptions and social norms about sex, gender and relationships
- About the opportunities and risks of forming and conducting relationships online
- How to manage the impact of the media and pornography on sexual attitudes, expectations and behaviours
- About the ethical and legal implications in relation to consent, including manipulation, coercion, and capacity to consent
- How to recognise and respond to pressure, coercion and exploitation, including reporting and accessing appropriate support
- How to recognise and challenge victim blaming
- About asexuality, abstinence and celibacy
Exploring Influence
Students Learn:
- About positive and negative role models
- About the media's impact on perceptions of gang culture
- About the impact of drugs and alcohol on individuals, personal safety, families and wider communities
- How drugs and alcohol affect decision making
- How to keep self and others safe in situations that involve substance use
- How to seek help for substance use and addiction
- How to manage peer influence in increasingly independent scenarios, in relation to substances, gangs and crime
- Exit strategies for pressurised or dangerous situations
- How to evaluate the influence of role models and become a positive role model for peers
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Addressing Extremism and Radicalisation
Students Learn:
- About communities, inclusion, respect and belonging
- About the equality act, diversity and values
- About how social media may distort, mis-represent or target information in order to influence beliefs and opinions
- How to manage conflicting views and misleading information
- How to safely challenge discrimination, including online
- How to recognise and respond to extremism and radicalisation
Employability Week
Students Learn:
A variety of skills through different workshops throughout a week.
Subject Overview:
Students in Year 10 have 1 PSHE lesson each week.
Students do not receive any PSHE homework.
Assessments:
Students have no official assessments. Instead students are expected to be holistic and reflective on the lessons rather than receive summative judgements on progress.
