PSHE

Meet the Department

Mrs C Oakes Curriculum Leader
All Tutors Teacher

Subject Overview

Within our Life Lessons, we strive to provide students with skills, attributes and knowledge that will keep students and young people safe and healthy. Furthermore, we provide them with information to support them in the wider world that is relevant to them both in the present and for their future beyond education to be happy, healthy and successful.

We cover many topics and often have outside speakers, presentations and workshops to bring specialists into the classroom and inspire the pupils. The lessons are taught by their tutor in tutor groups so that trust and knowledge of the student’s needs is always catered for when covering any sensitive topics.

Curriculum Map


Year 7: Topics

Autumn Spring Summer
  • Welcome to Life Lessons
  • Study Skills
  • What makes a Friend?
  • European Languages day
  • Stormy waters
  • Growth Mindset unit
  • Road safety presentation
  • Winchester university workshops

 
  • Inside Out
  • Holocaust day
  • Understanding emotions
  • Women & girls in science
  • Exploring effects of emotions
  • Social media and our emotions
  • Cyber bullying
  • Healthy living overview
  • Sleep
  • Sugar
  • Sugary drinks
  • Exercise
  • Mindfulness
  • Puberty
  • First Aid
  • World refugee day
  • Recycling week
Year 8 Topics
Autumn Spring Summer
  • Cyberbullying
  • Sexting
  • European Languages Day
  • Peer pressure
  • Self-esteem
  • Mental health band
  • Attitudes to mental health
  • Promoting emotional wellbeing Digital resilience
  • Unhealthy coping strategies
  • Healthy coping strategies
  • Actions & consequences
  • Developing empathy
  • Holocaust memorial day
  • Identity
  • Fire talk by the fire brigade
  • Diversity
  • Prejudice & stereotypes
  • Discrimination
  • Alcohol awareness
  • Desert Island
  • Laws of the land
  • Society decision making
  • Healthy living recap
  • Understanding others points of view
  • I am Malala
Year 9 Topics
Autumn Spring Summer
  • Resilience
  • Recap of Growth mind set
  • European languages day
  • UK youth parliament
  • Study skills unit – mind maps,
  • Fast tomato – careers & choices
  • Relationships day
  • Reconnect Project
    • Hyper connectivity
    • Internet & Identity
    • Algorithms & Thinking
    • Health & wellbeing
    • Rights & responsibilities
  • Understand drugs & their effects
  • Understanding the effects and laws around alcohol
  • First aid
  • Gangs – keeping safe:
    • How it starts
    • Risks & consequences
    • Getting out
  • Dealing with change
  • Mindfulness
  • Stress and fear of missing out

 

 


 

Year 10 Topics

Autumn Spring Summer
  • UK Youth Parliament – debate ready to vote
  • European Languages day
  • Resilience
  • Study Skills
  • Study Skills skimming & scanning
  • Street Sense – performance
  • Study Skills memory
  • Digital literacy
  • P4C Ted Talk
  • Knife Crime
  • Gambling Awareness Presentation
  • Fake News
  • How can I understand credit & debit
  • How do I keep my finances secure
  • Holocaust memorial day
  • How do I understand payslips & deductions
  • National Apprentice week
  • How can my money choices affect my mental health
  • Disrespecting NoBody -Relationships abuse
  • Disrespecting NoBody – Consent
  • Disrespecting NoBody – Sharing sexual images
  • Catch up –
  • Rise Above -Positive relationships
  • Presentation on CV writing
  • Peer assessment and re drafting of personal statements
  • Please check progress of the personal statements at the start of the lesson
  • Careers programs: Watching programme on the nine to five with Stacey Dooley
  • Understand drugs & their effects
  • Understanding the effects and laws around alcohol
  • Revision techniques
Year 11 Topics
Autumn Spring Summer
  • The Next step -16-18:
  • Mock & college interviews
  • Sparsholt
  • QMC
  • BCOT
  • Interviews
  • Peter Symonds
  • Apprenticeship
  • Metacognition
  • Revision
  • How to deal with exam stress
  • Relationships day
  • Revision
  • How to deal with exam stress

 

 

For further information on the curriculum please email adminoffice@bcs.hants.sch.uk

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