Curriculum Allocation 2025 onwards
L4L is taught for 1x 100 minute lesson per fortnight and within 1 form time per week.
Sessions are compulsory for attendance as full in line with statutory Government guidance and national curriculum standards.
Curriculum Period 1: 500 mins of content
Curriculum content
Session 1 - Wellbeing, physical and mental health. Managing change.
Session 2 - Mental health and the media (including Jesy Nelson documentary)
Session 3- Smoking and alcohol - financial costs and other impacts (this including information on vaping)
Session 4 - Drugs - the laws surrounding them, focus on edibles and 2021 police report on vaping
Session 5- - Being safe focus on alcohol and spiking.
Form time session content includes - growth mindset, different types of behaviour,, appropriate assertiveness, dealing with relationships growing up, target setting.
Assessment
The first assessment will be 40 mins long and will contain 50 marks. The content will come from session 1-7 in curriculum period 1.
Careers
As part of the additional time with the assessment block and form time slot all pupils will have their introduction lesson on using Unifrog platform. Pupils will be given the opportunity to log on, try the personality and skills sets and also explore what pathways are available to them post 16 within our are
Curriculum Period 2: 500 mins content
Session 6 - Cancer - what is it, prevention and treatment (Teenage cancer trust approved resources) Parents informed prior to session
Session 7 - Relationships and consent.
Session 8- What is sexual health, contraception and why is it important?
Session 9 - eating disorders
Session 10- E safety- The dangers of viewing harmful content. Where to get support to report material and manage issues online. The impact of viewing harmful content. E Safety week link
Curriculum Period 3: 500 mins content
Living in wider world
Session 11: Recap , radicalisation Gangs and knife crime (local link to staffordshire police podcast) Recap previous learning British values/ Protected characteristics
Session 12: Pride focus LGBTQi
Session 13- Addiction
Session 14: Personal safety and First Aid
Session 15 : Money matters - cost of living
Curriculum Period 4: 200 mins content
Session 7: Parliament and power
Session 8: Careers and communication
-Form time living in the wider world content includes - Responsibility , community, being safe, crimes, gangs, money management
Additional sessions:
Charity: Red nose day opportunity DN E safety week links , Mental health week.
After school: First Aid club Wednesday after school (Mrs Tapley), Wellbeing Tuesday
Assessment
This will be a 40 mins paper and will contain 90% of the marks from session 6 and 7 from curriculum period 1 and lesson 1-3 in curriculum period 2. The remaining 10% will link with work done within the form time sessions.
Form time focus - reinforce and recap relationships how to deal with conflict, reinforcing protected characteristics, key terminology including bigotry, prejudice and discrimination, British values and community cohesion, dangerous relationships, effective communication
L4L assembly focus sessions TBC
Assessment
The assessment will have a primary focus on Curriculum Period 2 but will also recap topics from Curriculum Periods 1 .Subject advice and guidance
If you need any further guidance then please contact your child’s teacher for this subject or DTL via email:
n.tapley@endon.shaw-education.org.uk