Year 7 — PSHCE

Term 1: Managing Change

This unit focusses on getting to know people, what is a community, your future, sleep and relaxation, financial education, transition points and your life.

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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: Staying Safe Online and Offline

This unit focuses on awareness of and avoiding gang related, staying safe online, online gaming & 'Fortnite', what is alcohol, what is smoking, e-cigs, vaping & shisha, energy drinks & caffeine.

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Safety

The condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury.

Cyber bullying

Cyberbullying is the use of cell phones, instant messaging, e-mail, chat rooms or social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to harass, threaten or intimidate someone.

Safe stranger

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

  • 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: Friends, Respect and Boundaries

In this unit students will learn about consent and boundaries, respect and relationships, marriage and divorce, what makes a good friend, friendships and managing them, being positive, pressure and influence, and finally consider what it means to be a male in 2023.

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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.

  • 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: Puberty and Body Development (This unit also covers FGM)

This unit covers an introduction to puberty, periods, personal hygiene, growing up, assertive consent, self-esteem and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

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Consent

To agree to do something, or to allow someone to do something. Permission.

Hygiene

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

Relationships

The way two or more people are connected, or the way they behave towards each other.

Puberty

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

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.

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.

  • 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: Celebrating Differences

This unit focuses on multi-cultural Britain, what is your identity, nature vs nurture, Equality Act 2010, breaking down stereotypes in society, prejudice and discrimination, and challenging Islamophobia.

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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.

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.

Disability

A condition (such as an illness or an injury) that damages or limits a person's physical or mental abilities. : the condition of being unable to do things in the average way.

Empathy

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Justice

The quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause. 2. rightfulness or lawfulness, as of a claim or title; justness of ground or reason: to complain with justice.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students encouraged to develop independence and personal values and opinions.

Create a supportive community:

Term 6: Politics and Parliament

In this unit students will explore why politics is important, how is our country run, creating a political party, elections and campaigning, political debates and parliament, exploring inside parliament, and who is our Prime Minister?

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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'.

Prime Minister

The leader of the government in some countries.

National

Relating to or coming from a particular country.

Cabinet

The committee of senior ministers responsible for controlling government policy.

Parliament

An assembly of the representatives of a political nation or people, often the supreme legislative authority.

Democracy

A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

Political Party

A political party is defined as an organised group of people with at least roughly similar political aims and opinions, that seeks to influence public policy by getting its candidates elected to public office.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

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

Create a supportive community: