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.