Year 7 — PSHCE

Term 1: Transition and Safety

This unit focuses on students transition into secondary school. It covers personal safety, staying safe in the community and online, road safety, cyberbullying and first aid.

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Community

A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

Attitude

Manner, disposition, feeling, approach, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind: a negative attitude; group attitudes.

Respect

Respect is a way of treating or thinking about something or someone. If you respect your teacher, you admire her and treat her well. People respect others who are impressive for any reason, such as being in authority — like a teacher or police officer.

Responsibility

The state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.

Transition

The process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.

Personal

Relating to the personal or private parts of someone's life.

Social

Relating to the life, welfare, and relationships of human beings in a community.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students will consider and discover how they fit into the world around them and this unit will assist them in dealing with the big changes in life they are experiencing.

Create a supportive community:

This unit will help the tutor group bond over their experiences as this is the first PSHE unit they will experience as a new class at secondary school. It will help them to form a supportive learning community.

Term 2: Culture of Mutual Respect

This unit focuses on developing a culture of mutual respect. It also covers protected characteristics, namely: disability and neurodiversity, race and ethnicity, age and stereotyping, sex and gender. The final lesson in this unit covers religion and how this contributes to a culture of mutual respect.

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Respect

Due regard for the feelings, wishes, or rights of others.

Disability

A disability is any condition of the body or mind (impairment) that makes it more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities (activity limitation) and interact with the world around them (participation restrictions).

Neurodiversity

the range of differences in individual brain function and behavioural traits, regarded as part of normal variation in the human population

Race

A concept used to describe a group of people who share physical characteristics, such as skin color and facial features

Ethnicity

The quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.

Sex

The different biological and physiological characteristics of males and females, such as reproductive organs, chromosomes, hormones, etc.

Gender

The socially constructed characteristics of women and men – such as norms, roles and relationships of and between groups of women and men.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

For students to see how they can keep themselves safe and who they can rely on to help them do so.

Create a supportive community:

For students to see who in their community can support them to remain safe and where safety lies in a community.

Term 3: Health and Puberty

In this unit students will learn about healthy lifestyles, health issues, puberty, feelings and emotions, hormones and hygiene and oral health.

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Friendship

A state of mutual trust and support between two people or more people.

Respect

Having regard for the feelings, wishes, or rights of others.

Social

Relating to the life, welfare, and relationships of human beings in a community.

Moral

The principles of right and wrong.

Community

A social group of any size whose members live in a specific place, share a government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.

Equality

Where something is fair and balanced.

Harmony

Balance, agreement, order, a positive relationship in society.

Boundary

The limit of what someone considers to be acceptable behaviour.

Change

the act of becoming different, or the result of something becoming different

Respect

Respect is a way of treating or thinking about something or someone. If you respect your teacher, you admire her and treat her well. People respect others who are impressive for any reason, such as being in authority — like a teacher or police officer.

Transition

The process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.

Personal

Relating to the personal or private parts of someone's life.

Safe stranger

Someone you have not met that you know you can trust such as a police officer.

Hygiene

The practice or principles of keeping yourself and your environment clean in order to maintain health and prevent disease.

Puberty

The stage in people's lives when they develop from a child into an adult.

Emotion

A strong feeling deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.

Development

The process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes more advanced.

Hormones

A chemical substance produced in the body that controls and regulates the activity of certain cells or organs. Many hormones are secreted by special glands, such as thyroid hormone produced by the thyroid gland.

Relationships

The way in which two or more people or things are connected, or the state of being connected.

Healthy Eating

Healthy eating is simply eating adequate, well-balanced meals to support your body’s needs.

Tooth decay

Decay of the outer surface of a tooth as a result of bacterial action.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students encouraged to develop independence and personal values and opinions.

Create a supportive community:

Students to be encouraged to make decisions to benefit themselves and our local community.

Term 4: Community and Diversity

In this unit students will learn about community and British Values, as well as the opportunities and needs within their community, they will learn how to make connections in the community, as well as developing an understanding of diversity in the UK, refugees and an introduction to radicalisation.

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Law

The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.

Criminal Law

Law associated with criminal acts.

Civil Law

Laws to do with a disagreement between people.

Community

A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

Diversity

Understanding that each individual is unique and recognising our individual differences.

Radicalisation

The action or process of causing someone to adopt radical positions on political or social issues.

Refugee

Refugees are people forced to flee their own country and seek safety in another country.

  • 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:

Developing as a person who can successfully integrate into society.

Term 5: Relationships and Families

In this unit students will cover different types of relationships, how to manage friendships, romantic and intimate relationships, long term relationships and forced marriage, roles and responsibilities of parents / carers and healthy relationships.

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Community

A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

Attitude

Manner, disposition, feeling, approach, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind: a negative attitude; group attitudes.

Responsibility

The state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.

Personal

Relating to the personal or private parts of someone's life.

Social

Relating to the life, welfare, and relationships of human beings in a community.

Friendship

A state of mutual trust and support between two people or more people.

Respect

Having regard for the feelings, wishes, or rights of others.

Boundary

The limit of what someone considers to be acceptable behaviour.

Empathy

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Family

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

Marriage

To become someone's husband or wife.

Relationships

The way in which two or more people or things are connected, or the state of being connected.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students encouraged to develop independence and personal values and opinions.

Create a supportive community:

Term 6: Financial Decision Making

In this unit students will explore the economy, banks and bank accounts, saving and investments, borrowing money, budgeting and gambling.

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Government

The political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state and community.

Local

From, existing in, serving, or responsible for a small area, especially of a country.

Regional

Relating to or coming from a particular part of a country, wider than 'local'.

National

Relating to or coming from a particular country.

Community

A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

Credit card

A small plastic card issued by a bank, building society, etc., allowing the holder to purchase goods or services on credit.

Debit card

A card allowing the holder to transfer money electronically from their bank account when making a purchase.

Gambling

The activity of betting money, for example in a game or on a horse race or sport.

Awareness

Knowledge or perception of a situation or fact.

Debt

Something, especially money, that is owed to someone else, or the state of owing something.

Employability

The skills and abilities that allow you to be employed.

Tax

A compulsory contribution to the government taken from wages, company profits and added to certain products.

Payslip

A note given to an employee when they have been paid, detailing the amount of pay given, and the tax and insurance deducted.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students encouraged to explore their own opinions whilst using sensibility and respect.

Create a supportive community: