Years 7 & 8 Curriculum - Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE)

Years 7 & 8 Curriculum Information –
PSHE Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education

All students will have a one hour lesson per fortnight.
This is non-examined, but a Behaviour and Effort score will be reported.
We follow a scheme of work called Jigsaw PSHE.  This is a whole-school approach to PSHE, health and wellbeing.  Jigsaw is a unique, spiral, progressive and effective scheme of work, aiming to prepare children/young people for life, heling them really know and value who they are and understand how they relate to other people in this ever-changing world.
There are 6 units of work that we look at in all years and these include:

• Being Me In My World
• Celebrating Difference
• Dreams and Goals
• Healthy Me
• Relationships
• Changing me

In Year 7 students will look at:

• Making friends
• Peer pressure
• Online safety
• Bullying
• Respect for the belief of others
• Learning from mistakes
• Safe and unsafe choices
• Stress and anxiety
• Effects and legal consequences of substance misuse
• Health/unhealthy relationships
• Girls and boys’ puberty

In Year 8 students will look at:

• Self-identity/influences
• First impressions
• Social justice and inequality
• Mental well being
• Budgeting
• Responsibility for own health
• Exploitation
• Substances and mood