Developing the overarching concepts of:

• Identity (personal qualities, attitudes, skills, attributes and achievements and what influences these)
• Risk (identification, assessment and how to manage risk rather than simply the avoidance of risk for self and others) and safety (including behaviour and strategies to employ in different settings)
• Diversity and equality (in all its forms)
• Rights (including the notion of universal human rights), responsibilities (including fairness and justice) and consent (in different contexts)
• Career (including enterprise, employability and economic understanding)

Through the contexts of: Spring Term – Living in the Wider World

Pupils should be taught:

• About respect for self and others
• The importance of responsible behaviours and actions
• About rights and responsibilities as members of families, other groups and ultimately as citizens
• About different groups and communities
• To respect equality and to be a productive member of a diverse community
• About the importance of respecting and protecting the environment
• About where money comes from, keeping it safe, and the importance of managing it effectively
• How money plays an important part in people’s lives
• A basic understanding of enterprise

Essential Skills:

• Active listening
• Awareness of own needs
• Empathy
• Managing risk and personal safety
• Planning
• Setting goals
• Self-reflection
• Affirming self and others
• Analysing and evaluating situations
• Communicating ideas and views to others
• Giving constructive feedback to others
• Making decisions and choices
• Managing risk and personal safety
• Recalling and applying knowledge and skills
• Recognising distorted thinking
• Team working
• Focusing on a goal

Developing the overarching concepts of:

• A healthy (including physically, emotionally and socially) balanced lifestyle (including within relationships, work-life, exercise and rest, spending and saving and diet)
• Power (how it is used and encountered in a variety of contexts including persuasion, bullying, negotiation and ‘win-win’ outcomes)
• Identity (personal qualities, attitudes, skills, attributes and achievements and what influences these)
• Diversity and equality (in all its forms)
• Risk (identification, assessment and how to manage risk rather than simply the avoidance of risk for self and others) and safety (including behaviour and strategies to employ in different settings)
• Rights (including the notion of universal human rights), responsibilities (including fairness and justice) and consent (in different contexts)

Through the contexts of: Autumn Term Health and Wellbeing

Pupils should be taught:

• What is meant by a healthy lifestyle
• How to maintain physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing
• How to manage risks to physical and emotional health and wellbeing
• Ways of keeping physically and emotionally safe
• About managing change, including puberty, transition and loss
• How to make informed choices about health and wellbeing and to recognise sources of help with this
• How to respond in an emergency
• To identify different influences on health and wellbeing
• Ways of keeping physically and emotionally safe

Essential Skills:

• Active listening
• Awareness of own needs
• Drawing conclusions
• Empathy
• Making decisions and choices
• Managing risk and personal safety
• Resilience
• Self-management
• Self-reflection
• Critical thinking
• Affirming self and others
• Analysing and evaluating situations
• Communicating ideas and views to others
• Drawing conclusions
• Managing stress and pressure
• Recalling and applying knowledge and skills
• Recognising distorted thinking
• Self-reflection
• Setting challenges and goals for self
• Team working