Below is the key (for your information) so you know which national documentation the objectives have come from.
Living in the Wider World | Health Education | Sex and Relationships | General / National Events | Character |
Week No. | Week Beginning | Pastoral Programme | Coverage |
1 | 4th September | Welcome back, Organisation/Timetables, etc. | |
2 | 11th September | New beginnings/Team Work/Target-setting | |
3 | 18th September | Character | |
4 | 25th September | European Week of Languages (EDoL is 26th September) | |
5 | 2nd October | CEIAG | |
6 | 9th October | Mental Health Education | How to talk about their emotions accurately and sensitively, using appropriate vocabulary. That happiness is linked to being connected to others. |
7 | 16th October | Mental Health Education | How to recognise the early signs of mental wellbeing concerns. Common types of mental ill health (e.g. anxiety and depression). How to critically evaluate when something they do or are involved in has a positive or negative effect on their own or others’ mental health. |
HALF TERM | |||
8 | 30th October | Substance abuse and addiction Focus: legal and prescribed drugs | Awareness of the dangers of drugs which are prescribed but still present serious health risks. The physical and psychological risks associated with alcohol consumption and what constitutes low risk alcohol consumption in adulthood. The facts about the harms from smoking tobacco (particularly the link to lung cancer), the benefits of quitting and how to access support to do so. |
9 | 6th November | Remembrance | |
10 | 13th November | CEIAG Focus: Pathways, Employability Skills, Interviews | |
11 | 20th November | The impact of viewing harmful content. | How to identify harmful behaviours online (including bullying, abuse or harassment) and how to report, or find support, if they have been affected by those behaviours. The impact of viewing harmful content. |
12 | 27th November | Anti-Bullying, Cyberbullying & E safety Focus: Being a discerning consumer and advertising | The similarities and differences between the online world and the physical world, including: how advertising and information is targeted at them and how to be a discerning consumer of information online. |
13 | 4th December | Homophobia & Racism | How stereotypes, in particular stereotypes based on sex, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or disability, can cause damage. The legal rights and responsibilities regarding equality and that everyone is unique and equal. |
14 | 11th December | Harassment | The concepts of, and laws relating to harassment, and how these can affect current and future relationships. What constitutes sexual harassment and sexual violence and why these are always unacceptable. |
CHRISTMAS | |||
15 | 3rd January (Weds) | New beginnings and target setting | |
16 | 8th January | Character | |
17 | 15th January | Substance abuse and addiction Focus: Illegal drugs (Cannabis covered in LS lessons) | The facts about illegal drugs and their associated risks, including the link between drug use, and the associated risks, including the link to serious mental health conditions. The law relating to the supply and possession of illegal substances. The physical and psychological consequences of addiction. |
18 | 22nd January | Holocaust Memorial Week | |
19 | 29th January | Healthy Lifestyle Focus: Exercise | The positive associations between physical activity and promotion of mental wellbeing, including as an approach to combat stress. The characteristics and evidence of what constitutes a healthy lifestyle, maintaining a healthy weight, including the links between an inactive lifestyle and ill health, including cancer and cardio-vascular ill-health. |
20 | 5th February | Healthy Lifestyle Focus: Healthy eating | How to maintain healthy eating and the links between a poor diet and health risks, including tooth decay and cancer. About dental health and the benefits of good oral hygiene and dental flossing, including healthy eating and regular check-ups at the dentist. |
HALF TERM | |||
21 | 19th February | CEIAG National Apprenticeship Week | |
22 | 26th February | Gender and Sexuality | How stereotypes, in particular stereotypes based on sex, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or disability, can cause damage (e.g. how they might normalise non-consensual behaviour or encourage prejudice). That in school and in wider society they can expect to be treated with respect by others, and that in turn they should show due respect to others, including people in positions of authority and due tolerance of other people’s beliefs. |
23 | 4th March | National Careers Week/CEIAG Focus: National Careers Week | |
24 | 11th March | National Science & Engineering Week | |
25 | 18th March | Disabilities – Equality Act | The legal rights and responsibilities regarding equality (particularly with reference to the protected characteristics as defined in the Equality Act 2010) and that everyone is unique and equal. |
26 | 25th March | Financial Literacy | PSHE Association: Financial Choices L15 – L19 |
EASTER | |||
27 | 15th April | Being Healthy Focus: Managing Health Risks | The causes and triggers for unhealthy coping strategies, such as self-harm and eating disorders, and the need to seek help for themselves or others as soon as possible |
28 | 22nd April | Character Pillars Focus: The Four Character Pillars, Morality, Altruism. | |
29 | 29th April | CEIAG Focus: Goals and decisions, employability skills | |
30 | 6th May | Sex and Relationships Focus: Marriage | What marriage is, including their legal status e.g. that marriage carries legal rights and protections not available to couples who are cohabiting or who have married, for example, in an unregistered religious ceremony. Why marriage is an important relationship choice for many couples and why it must be freely entered into. The characteristics and legal status of other types of long-term relationships. |
31 | 13th May | Sex and Relationships Focus: Parenthood | The roles and responsibilities of parents with respect to raising of children, including the characteristics of successful parenting. The characteristics of positive and healthy friendships (in all contexts, including online) including: trust, respect, honesty, kindness, generosity, boundaries, privacy, consent and the management of conflict, reconciliation and ending relationships. This includes different (non-sexual) types of relationship. |
32 | 20th May | Sex and Relationships Focus: Pregnancy | The facts around pregnancy including miscarriage. That there are choices in relation to pregnancy (with medically and legally accurate, impartial information on all options, including keeping the baby, adoption, abortion and where to get further help). |
HALF TERM | |||
33 | 3rd June | Sex and Relationships Focus: Healthy Relationships | The characteristics of positive and healthy friendships (in all contexts, including online) including: trust, respect, honesty, kindness, generosity, boundaries, privacy, consent and the management of conflict, reconciliation and ending relationships. This includes different (non-sexual) types of relationship. |
34 | 10th June | Character Focus: A life well lived- virtues, understanding and controlling emotions, good humour and tactfulness, resilience and stress management. | |
35 | 17th June | Summer Safety | |
36 | 24th June | National School Sports week/Healthy Lifestyle Focus: Peer Support! | |
37 | 1st July | Conflict Focus: Gang Violence | How to: determine whether other children, adults or sources of information are trustworthy: judge when a family, friend, intimate or other relationship is unsafe (and to recognise this in others’ relationships); and, how to seek help or advice, including reporting concerns about others, if needed. |
38 | 8th July | British Values Focus: Democracy | |
39 | 15th July | British Values Focus: UK Law | |