Year 11 PSHE
Curriculum:
Click to Expand Autumn Content:
Students Learn:
- How to manage the judgement of others and challenge stereotyping
- How to develop self-efficacy, including motivation, perseverance and resilience
- How to maintain a healthy self-concept
- About the nature, causes and effects of stress
- Stress management strategies, including maintaining healthy sleep habits
- How to manage work/life balance
- Effective revision techniques and strategies
- About positive and safe ways to create content online and the opportunities this offers
- How to balance time online
- How to use feedback constructively when planning for the future
- How to set and achieve smart targets
- How to balance ambition and unrealistic expectations
- About application processes, including writing cvs, personal statements and interview technique
- How to write a CV
- How to maximise employability, including managing online presence and taking opportunities to broaden experience
- About rights, responsibilities and challenges in relation to working part time whilst studying
Students Learn:
- About different types of families and changing family structures
- How to evaluate readiness for parenthood and positive parenting qualities
- About fertility, including how it varies and changes
- About pregnancy, birth and miscarriage
- About unplanned pregnancy options, including abortion
- About adoption and fostering
- How to manage change, loss, grief and bereavement
- About 'honour based' violence and forced marriage and how to safely access support
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Communication in Relationships
Students Learn:
- About core values and emotions
- About gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation
- How to communicate assertively
- How to communicate wants and needs
- How to handle unwanted attention, including online
- How to challenge harassment and stalking, including online
- About various forms of relationship abuse
- About unhealthy, exploitative and abusive relationships
- How to access support in abusive relationships and how to overcome challenges in seeking support
Independence
Students Learn:
- How to assess and manage risk and safety in new independent situations (e.g. personal safety in social situations and on the roads)
- Emergency first aid skills
- How to assess emergency and non-emergency situations and contact appropriate services
- About the links between lifestyle and some cancers
- About the importance of screening and how to perform self-examination
- About vaccinations and immunisations
- About registering with and accessing doctors, sexual health clinics, opticians and other health services
- How to manage influences and risks relating to cosmetic and aesthetic body alterations
- About blood, organ and stem cell donation
Click to Expand Summer Content:
At this point in the academic year, PSHE lessons become addition time for revision, exam technique and pace in other subjects.
Subject Overview:
Students in Year 11 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.
