Year 9 — PSHCE

Term 1: Essential Life Skills

In this unit students will explore a variety of important life skills and knowledge such as resilience, first aid, the importance of happiness, what is anger, saving and managing money, employment and financial management, social media and online stress.

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Options

One thing that can be chosen from a set of possibilities, or the freedom to make a choice.

Goal

An aim or purpose.

Mental Health

The condition of someone's mind and whether or not they are suffering from any mental illness.

Employability

The skills and abilities that allow you to be employed.

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.

Resilience

The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students to have an understanding of how choices can have an impact on future pathways.

Create a supportive community:

Students to discuss how their decisions can have an impact on the community around them.

Term 2: Legal and Illegal Drugs

This unit gives students a comprehensive introduction to drugs, different types of addiction, cannabis products, drug classifications, 'party' drugs, illegal drugs and the law, volatile substance abuse, and prescription drug dangers.

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Tobacco

Nicotine rich leaves or an American plant, which are often used to smoke.

Addiction

Not having control over doing, taking or using something to the point where it could be harmful to you.

Vaping

The action or practice of inhaling and exhaling the vapour produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device.

Alcohol

A liquid that can make you drunk, also used as a solvent and in fuel and medicines.

Drugs

Any natural or artificially made chemical that is used as a medicine.

Influence

To have control or power over how others act, think or behave. To contribute to the thoughts and ideas of others.

Prescription drug

A drug that legally requires a medical prescription to be dispensed.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students will develop in a range of areas during this topic, including becoming more aware morally, socially and culturally with regard to drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Students will develop 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: Body Confidence

This unit allows students to consider self-esteem changes, what is a penis, what is a vulva, Homophobic, Bi-phobic and Transphobic (HBT) - bullying in all its forms, dealing with grief and loss, media and airbrushing, cancer prevention and healthy lifestyles.

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Grief

Sadness and loss following the death or loss of a loved one.

Empathy

Putting yourself in someone else's shoes to feel their emotions.

Sympathy

Feeling for someone who has experienced something negative.

Stereotype

A fixed general image or set of characteristics that a lot of people believe represent a particular type of person or thing.

Hate crime

A crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, typically one involving violence.

Discrimination

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

Prejudice

Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

  • 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: Sex, The Law and Consent

In this unit students will explore sexual consent and the law, female genital mutilation (FGM) and the law, delaying sexual activity, sex before and outside of marriage, why have sex, relationships and partners, pleasure and masturbation, and what are STIs.

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Coercion

The act or practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.

Resolution

Finding a solution to the conflict that both sides can accept.

Forced Marriage

A marriage which family members or guardians enforce by making the couple feel as though they have no alternative or by actively threatening them.

Arranged Marriage

A marriage which family members or guardians may help 'arrange' by finding suitable partners and matching them together. This is consented to by the couple, although sometimes coercion or persuasion methods are used.

HIV

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Consent

Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.

FGM

Female Genital Mutilation

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students to know right from wrong and to be able to express their beliefs and values with confidence, and for students to be aware of specific issues relating to sex and consent and where to get support.

Create a supportive community:

Students to know the law and right from wrong.

Term 5: Contraception and STIs

This unit builds on the relationships and sex education from term 3 and explores sexually transmitted infections (STIs), contraceptives available, condoms, sexual harassment and stalking, HIV and AIDs, AIDs prejudice and discrimination.

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Condom

A condom is a sheath-shaped barrier device used during sexual intercourse to reduce the probability of pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection (STIs).

HIV

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Coil

An IUD is a small T-shaped plastic and copper device that’s inserted into the womb (uterus) by a specially trained doctor or nurse.

Chlamydia

Chlamydia is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK. It's passed on from one person to another through unprotected sex (sex without a condom) and is particularly common in sexually active teenagers and young adults.

Gonorrhea

A venereal disease involving inflammatory discharge from the urethra or vagina.

Contraception

The use of any of various methods intended to prevent a woman becoming pregnant.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students to be clear on their beliefs, the law and right from wrong, becoming more aware whilst developing their own understanding and decisions regarding this topic.

Create a supportive community:

Students to be taught about UK law. 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: Combatting Extremism and Terrorism

In this unit students will explore conspiracy theories and extremist narratives, extremism, what is terrorism, proud to be British, the radicalisation process, counter terrorism, and anti-Semitism.

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Conspiracy

A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.

Terrorism

The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

Radicalisation

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

Counter terrorism

Political or military activities designed to prevent or thwart terrorism.

Anti-Semitism

Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.

  • 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 develop in a range of areas during this topic, including becoming more aware the wider concerns of these issues whilst developing their own understanding and decisions regarding this topic.