PSHCE — Year 8

 

PSHCE Overview
Curriculum

Term 1: Personal safety, first aid and immunisations

In this unit students will discuss effective ways of staying safe within the community and social situations. Students will learn about basic first aid and consider situations in which they may need to use this. Students will learn more about vaccinations that they may have had in the passed and they will explore different opinions on vaccinations. They will also discuss the HPV vaccination, which will be offered to them later this year.

Students will participate in class discussions, debates, and complete a self-assessment following each unit to check their understanding.

Vaccination
treatment with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease; inoculation.

Disease
A disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.

First Aid
Help given to a sick or injured person until full medical treatment is available.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students will develop in a range of areas during this topic, including becoming more aware whilst developing their own understanding and decisions regarding this topic.

Create a supportive community:
Students will be able to recognise positive choices and how negative choices in this topic may affect others and the community around them.

Term 2: Prejudice, Discrimination and British Values

In this unit students will look at the concept of identity and the factors which determine a person's identity. How people are different and what makes them different (culture, religion, education, personal choices). Students will also look at the right a person has to their identity and if this should ever be taken. Students will focus specifically on prejudice and discrimination in relation to age, disability, religion, gender identity and sexuality.

In this unit students will develop their understanding of tolerance in modern day society. They will also explore discrimination, racism and xenophobia and the impact that this can have on individuals and communities. Students will then explore what it means to be British, and how people's perceptions vary. Students will learn about the origins of diversity in Britain including a look at the impact of immigration in our country. They will learn about how stereotypes may be applied.

Students will participate in class discussions, debates, and complete a self-assessment following each unit to check their understanding.

Prejudice
To pre judge someone with a pre-conceived opinion or bias

Discrimination
To act favourable or unfavourably based on prejudice.

Immigration
the act of coming to live in a new country. About one hundred and twenty years ago, the U.S. government first approved the immigration of Koreans.

Cosmopolitan
composed of people or elements from all parts of the world or from many different places.

Integration
the end of the separation of races. Integration was an important step toward equality in the United States.

Stereotype
a fixed image or idea of a person.

Disability
inability to use part of the body properly.

Sexism
to treat the opposite sex unfairly or differently.

Racism
to treat people of a different race/culture unfairly or differently.

Opinion
what you think of something, a belief held.

Ageism
Prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of a person's age.

Sexuality
A person's sexual orientation or preference.

Gender identity
A person's perception of having a particular gender, which may or may not correspond with their birth sex.

Non-binary
Non-binary is a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine‍—‌identities that are outside the gender binary.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students will develop in a range of areas during this topic, including becoming more aware whilst developing their own understanding and decisions regarding this topic.

Create a supportive community:
Students will be able to recognise positive choices and how negative choices in this topic may affect others and the community around them.

Term 3: Gender and Identity (LGBTQ+)

In this unit students will learn about the impact of creating a digital footprint. They will learn about how media is used for communication and the effect it has on out lives. They will learn to analyse and evaluate evidence from adverts, the news, documentaries and chat shows and distinguish between fact and fiction. Students will explore issues arising from press freedoms versus people's privacy and the effect that reality shows have on society.

Students will participate in class discussions, debates, and complete a self-assessment following each unit to check their understanding.

Influence
The power to affect other people or things.

Sex
Biological traits that you are born with that make you male or female.

Gender
Ideas made up by society for what makes you male or female (e.g boys like football)

Pronouns
Words used to refer to yourself (she/her/he/his/them)

Gender non-binary
People who do not identify with either the male or female gender at all.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students will develop in a range of areas during this topic, including becoming more aware whilst developing their own understanding and decisions regarding this topic.

Create a supportive community:
Students will be able to recognise positive choices and how negative choices in this topic may affect others and the community around them.

Term 4: Social and Emotional Mental Health, Rights of the child

In this unit students will develop their understanding of emotional literacy and self esteem. They will consider the positive impact that these can have, particularly during teenage years. Students will develop their understanding of self harm, including the warning signs and where to seek support for both one's self or a friend. Students will learn about body shaming and how this can impact on ones emotional well-being.

In this unit students will also learn about the rights of children both in the UK and in parts of the developing world. Students will consider the impact of conflict and war on children's emotional well-being. Students will discuss different ways of managing loss and grief.

Students will participate in class discussions, debates, and complete a self-assessment following each unit to check their understanding.

Teenager
People aged between 13 and 19

Puberty
A time of change for the body.

Hormones
Chemicals in the body which control different changes.

Dilemma
A problem with 2 or more outcomes.

Decision
Deciding on a course of action.

Adolescence
Name given to children growing up.

Adulthood
Post 18.

Situation
Where you are, a position you are in.

Solution
Finding an answer or way to proceed.

Emotional literacy
The ability to understand and describe feelings.

Body shaming
The action or practice of humiliating someone by making mocking or critical comments about their body shape or size.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students will develop in a range of areas during this topic, including becoming more aware whilst developing their own understanding and decisions regarding this topic.

Create a supportive community:
Students will be able to recognise positive choices and how negative choices in this topic may affect others and the community around them.

Term 5: Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)

In this unit students will understand the value of an effective family unit but that may take the form of many different groupings, all equally valid. They will explore the role of the parent and what effective parenting is. Students will explore the issues and realities of teenage parenthood. Students will learn why relationships are formed and reasons why they may breakdown including domestic violence. Students will learn about consent and the law. They will also learn about Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE), sexting and upskirting.

Students will participate in class discussions, debates, and complete a self-assessment following each unit to check their understanding.

Responsibility
Being accountable for something, being in charge.

Family
Group of people made up of parents and children and sometimes other relations or carers.

Society
Community of people living together in a group or nation.

Parenting
A Father or Mother who looks after and ensures the well being of their own or others offspring.

Marriage
To become someone's husband or wife.

Civil partnership
A legally recognised relationship which is registered.

Separation
When a married couple make a decision not to be together anymore.

Divorce
When a married couple are legally no longer bound by marriage.

Grief
Intense feeling of loss.

Funeral
A ceremony in which dead people are cremated or buries.

Gay marriage
Marriage between partners of the same sex.

Domestic violence
Violent or aggressive behaviour within the home, typically involving the violent abuse of a spouse or partner.

Upskirting
The action or practice of surreptitiously taking photos or videos at an angle so as to see up a persons skirt or dress.

Sexting
Send (someone) sexually explicit photographs or messages via mobile phone

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students will develop in a range of areas during this topic, including becoming more aware whilst developing their own understanding and decisions regarding this topic.

Create a supportive community:
Students will be able to recognise positive choices and how negative choices in this topic may affect others and the community around them.

Term 6: Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco Education (DATE)

In this unit students will progress through resources provided by the Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation. They will explore what is meant by healthy living and what is detrimental to their health. They will learn about the health risks of smoking, vaping, taking drugs, alcohol and why people get involved with these habits in the first place. They will develop skills which will support them in being resilient and in feeling confident to say 'no'.

Students will participate in class discussions, debates, and complete a self-assessment following each unit to check their understanding.

Alcohol
Any intoxicating liquor containing this liquid.

Cigarette
Small roll of shredded tobacco in thin paper.

Legal
Allowed by law.

Illegal
Not allowed by law.

Financial
To do with money related matters.

Diagnosis
The naming of a disease or condition.

Intoxication
State of being drunk or excited.

Consequence
Something that happens as a result of an event or action.

Addiction
Being dependent on something e.g. drugs, alcohol, mobile phones

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students will develop in a range of areas during this topic, including becoming more aware whilst developing their own understanding and decisions regarding this topic.

Create a supportive community:
Students will be able to recognise positive choices and how negative choices in this topic may affect others and the community around them.