Year 7 Curriculum Information Booklet 2018 - 2019

PSHCE
PSHCE is taught to all students, however, there is a parental/carer right of withdrawal from
Sex and Relationships Education. The taught element covers areas such as financial
capability, careers and emotion and healthy well being.
Unit 1 – Being Me
Students will study issues relating to
personal identity and the influences they
have on the choices they make:
What makes us human?
Who do I think I am?
What is meant by a group identity
and how can we develop this in
school?
What influences the choices we
make?
What are the origins for my name?
Unit 2 – Diversity
Students will study the issue of stereotyping
various groups in society ad how these can
be challenged:
What influences the attitudes I
have?
What is a stereotype and what
stereotypes are there?
How can we develop empathy for
others and how would this look?
Disability discrimination in society
Sex discrimination in society
Unit 3 – Health Matters
Students will study issues relating to body
image in their own lives and how the media
influences this. They will examine the
changes happening in the body and
investigate drugs in our society:
Body image and the media
Healthy eating and exercise
A healthy body and a healthy mind
The changes brought about by
puberty
The media as as an influence on
body image
Drugs – an introduction to the law
and different types of drug – legal
and illegal