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Curriculum Allocation
This is taught for 1x 50 minute lesson per week and in a form period once a week (15 mins) and we also enrich using assembly time and endzone activities
Curriculum Period 1:
Curriculum content: 16 lessons at 50 mins (some are double lessons as stated below)
Focus on Health and wellbeing and relationships
Session 1a - mental health and me. This is in place to respond to the needs of the year group based on transitional work established with the progress manager , and reflects on helping educate your child about mental health. This will include signposting for support.
Session 1b - healthy eating and misconceptions. This session focuses on healthy eating and it is important to complete everything in moderation. Will also look at principles of planning and preparing healthy meals. How to maintain healthy eating and poor health and risks including tooth decay
Session 2a and b - Smoking recap and Vaping looking at the key components about these two mediums. Looking looking at how media influences this.
Session 3 and b - facts about legal and illegal drugs focusing specifically on categories of drugs, linking the laws and class of drug. Where to get help and support
session 3c - review alcohol (looking at units) and understanding substance misuse (focus on alcohol but not exclusive to)
Session 4a - Puberty and growing up - recap from year 7 knowledge and focus on menstrual cycle introducing different types of sanitary products and comparing them
session 4b - hair removal what is it and why and how do we do it?
session 5a/b - Being safe on the online world. How much information you can give out unknowingly. Focus on selfies, geotags and tagging location.
session 6a - Body image and self esteem ties in with form time sessions (and session 5) but this focuses on what influences us and what self esteem is and how we can help ourselves navigate through it
session 6b:- Relationships reviewed from year 7 and domestic conflict . What the negative relationships are, recognising reasons for domestic conflict. Where to get help and support
Form time sessions Sept - December will include sessions on adapting from covid into year 8, social norms , self esteem , self care, healthy lifestyles.
Assessment
The first assessment will be 30 mins long and will contain 30 marks. The content will cover the first 5 sessions above with 20% of the paper on each section.
Careers
Pupils will also have the opportunity to have a session and a form time on careers to start establishing their use of Unifrog. Pupils will be signpost to start creating their profile and looking into pathways post 16. Pupils will be signpost to looking at their skill set and job interests and seeing how these link together.
L4L assembly sessions delivered by the L4L teaching team last year to expand upon
October 2023: Mental health (NT)
November 2023 Physical health (MD)
November 2023: World challenge (ES) and diversity
External agency presentations
Road safety Staffordshire highways agency- local road safety
Loudmouth theatre agency - Bully4U presentation on what bullying is and the forms it can take. Where to get help and support.
additional sessions: Red nose day opportunities (charity) DN, E safety week links (Feb) , Mental health week.
Curriculum Period 2:
Focus area- relationships, community and character
Session 1- Relationships and criminal activity . This session focuses on gangs. It looks at how people can end up in gangs, how to raise concerns over and friend and where to get help and support.
Session 2 - Radicalisation and extremism. Understanding what these terms means, signs and symptoms and prevent.
Session 3 - Sexting and viewing images
Session 4 - LGBTQ+ focus including Pride link
Focus area- Living in the wider world
Session 1 : First Aid
Session 2: Careers and challenging stereotypes-Protected characteristics and character education
Session 3: Career and enterprise
session 4: Money matters
Session 5: Sustainability - what does it mean / Easter Island/ citizenship
additional sessions: Disability documentary and sign language lesson
January - April Form time sessions will focus on : Living in the wider world- community social awareness, volunteering, community identity, money , human rights, terrorism
Assessment 2 will be 40 minutes with 50 marks available
Form time sessions will focus on recapping relationships: successful relationships adapting and love, identity and diversity, disability and awareness, bullying and banter, self worth and self efficacy.
L4L assembly focus
LGBTQ (DRM)
Making moments matter (NT]
Subject advice and guidance
If you need any further guidance then please contact your child’s teacher via email:
n.tapley@endon.shaw-education.org.uk (DTL)
e.stubbs@endon.shaw-education.org.uk
j.dudley@endon-shaw-education.org.uk
t.johnson@endon.shaw-education.org.uk