Year 09 PSHE
Curriculum:
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Peer Influence, Substance Use and Gangs
Students Learn:
- How to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy friendships
- How to assess risk and manage influences, including online
- About 'group think' and how it affects behaviour
- How to recognise passive, aggressive and assertive behaviour, and how to communicate assertively
- To manage risk in relation to gangs
- About the legal and physical risks of carrying a knife
- About positive social norms in relation to drug and alcohol use
- About legal and health risks in relation to drug and alcohol use, including addiction and dependence
Community and Careers
Students Learn:
- About transferable skills, abilities and interests
- How to demonstrate strengths
- Skills for decision making
- About different types of employment and career pathways
- About different types of employment and career pathways
- How to manage feelings relating to future employment
- How to work towards aspirations and set meaningful, realistic goals for the future
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Respectful Relationships
Students Learn:
- About the social norms of a what it means to be a "family"
- About different types of families and parenting, including single parents, same sex parents and blended families
- About different types of families and parenting, including adoption and fostering
- About positive relationships in the home and ways to reduce homelessness amongst young people
- How to manage relationship and family changes, including relationship breakdown, separation and divorce
- About conflict and its causes in different contexts, e.g. with family and friends
- Conflict resolution strategies
- How to access support services
Healthy Lifestyle
Students Learn:
- About the relationship between physical and mental health
- About balancing work, leisure, exercise and sleep
- About managing lifestyles to achieve a balance
- How to make informed healthy eating choices
- How to manage influences on body image
- To take increased responsibility for physical health, including testicular self-examination
- To make independent health choices
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Identity and Relationships
Students Learn:
- About gender identity and sexual orientation
- About readiness for sexual activity, the choice to delay sex, or enjoy intimacy without sex
- About facts and misconceptions relating to consent
- About the continuous right to withdraw consent and capacity to consent
- About STIs, effective use of condoms and negotiating safer sex
- About the consequences of unprotected sex, including pregnancy
- How the portrayal of relationships in the media and pornography might affect expectations
- How to assess and manage risks of sending, sharing or passing on sexual images
- How to secure personal information online
Employability Skills
Students Learn:
- About young people's employment rights and responsibilities
- Skills for enterprise and employability
- How to give and act upon constructive feedback
- How to manage their 'personal brand' online
- Habits and strategies to support progress
- How to identify and access support for concerns relating to life online
Subject Overview:
Students in Year 9 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.
