Me and My Community

• Identify the LGBTQ+ spectrum
• Identify what homophobia is and how it can be presented
• The impact of stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination on individuals and relationships
• About the unacceptability of prejudice-based language and behaviour, offline and online, including homophobia, biphobia, transphobia (as well as sexism, racism and ableism and faith-based prejudice)
• The need to promote inclusion and challenge discrimination, and how to do so safely, including online

My Online World 

• Explain the benefits and problems with using social media.
• Understand how harmful content can be presented online.
• Explore revenge/deepfake/cyberbullying/harassment online.
• Explore strategies to support with harmful content online.

The Impact of Viewing Harmful Content

• Explore the key components which make up harmful content such as online abuse, bullying, harassment, threats, impersonation, unwanted sexual advances, violence, self-harm/suicide, harmful pornography
• Analyse the impact of viewing harmful content online.
• Understand the rules and principles for keeping safe online, how to recognise risks, harmful content and contact, and how to report them.

• How to safely and responsibly form, maintain and manage romantic relationships.
• Explore the importance of respect in a relationship
• The skills to help manage conflict and strategies to reconcile after disagreements
• Understand Abuse in relationships, with reference to VAWG as well as Domestic Violence.

My Online World

• Explain the benefits and problems with using social media.
• Understand how harmful content can be presented online
• Explore revenge/deepfake/cyberbullying/harassment online.
• Explore strategies to support with harmful content online.

• Identify the LGBTQ+ spectrum
• Identify what homophobia is and how it can be presented
• The impact of stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination on individuals and relationships
• About the unacceptability of prejudice-based language and behaviour, offline and online, including homophobia, biphobia, transphobia (as well as sexism, racism and ableism and faith-based prejudice)
• The need to promote inclusion and challenge discrimination, and how to do so safely, including online

My Online World:

• Explain the benefits and problems with using social media.
• Understand how harmful content can be presented online
• Explore revenge/deepfake/cyberbullying/harassment online.
• Explore strategies to support with harmful content online.

Gangs and Violence

• Explore the ways in which someone can become involved in a gang and the risks associated with this.
• Analyse the impact of viewing gang related material online
• Understand the impact of violence and harm on mental health

My Online World

• Explain the benefits and problems with using social media.
• Understand how harmful content can be presented online
• Explore revenge/deepfake/cyberbullying/harassment online.
• Explore strategies to support with harmful content online.

Financial wellbeing

• Explore the Post-16 pathways available.
• The functions and uses of money, budgeting, managing risk, credit and debt, insurance, savings and pensions and applying maths to financial contexts
• How to manage money as school leave and learn how to save and utilise rewards and offers as a young person in college/work-based training

• Understand responsibilities of living in a community
• Analyse the benefits and issues surrounding living in a community.
• Explore examples of prejudice and discrimination through the issues of Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism
• Learn how be ready to live in a community safely and respectfully.

My Online World

• Explain the benefits and problems with using social media.
• Understand how harmful content can be presented online
• Explore revenge/deepfake/cyberbullying/harassment online.
• Explore strategies to support with harmful content online.

Self-concept: Body Image and Identity

• What appearance ideals are and how they influence how we talk about our bodies
• The impact that media and social media can have on how people think about themselves and express themselves, including regarding body image, physical and mental health.
• Techniques to help build self-confidence, resilience to negative opinions, judgements, and comments

Healthy Me: My Body

• Explore the risks associated with smoking, alcohol and vaping.
• Understand the Law on substances.
• Explore strategies to help manage substance use

• Explore teenage spending.
• Explore the tactics used to encourage spending.
• Understand how to be a sensible consumer, with reference to budgeting

Online Gambling/Debt

• Types of online gambling/debt
• The risks associated with gambling and recognise that chance-based transactions can carry similar risks
• Strategies for managing peer and other influences relating to gambling
• Build resilience to thinking errors associated with gambling (e.g. ‘gambler’s fallacy’) the range of gambling-related harms and how to access support

Planning for the future: Aspirations

• Describe what aspirations are and discuss your own aspirations.
• Explore the significance of effective communication and team work
• Understand professional etiquette required post-16
• Explore how to be professional online.

Healthy Relationships

• How to safely and responsibly form, maintain and manage romantic relationships
• Explore the importance of respect in a relationship
• The skills to help manage conflict and strategies to reconcile after disagreements
• Understand Abuse in relationships, with reference to VAWG as well as Domestic Violence.

• Explore intimacy and why some people may choose to delay it as well as consent.
• The importance of safe sex and the implications of unsafe sex e.g., STI’s (sexually transmitted infections
• Explore strategies for coping with unplanned pregnancy
• Understand the pathways available to support with unplanned pregnancies

Me and My Community

• Understand responsibilities of living in a community
• Analyse the benefits and issues surrounding living in a community.
• Explore examples of prejudice and discrimination through the issues of Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism.
• Learn how be ready to live in a community safely and respectfully.

Mental health and Wellbeing

• Ways in which your mental health and wellbeing can be affected, with reference to self-harm and suicide
• How to identify strategies to manage your mental/emotional health and wellbeing
• How you can achieve positive wellness including where to seek appropriate support

Grooming and Exploitation

• What Child Criminal and Sexual Exploitation is
• What is coercion and the dangers of online gaming and using social networking platforms such as Tik Tok and Telegram
• What is grooming and how to know when grooming is happening
• The signs of Child Criminal and Sexual Exploitation and the effects it has
• The law relating to grooming.
• How to stay safe online

• Explore intimacy and why some people may choose to delay it as well as consent.
• The importance of safe sex and the implications of unsafe sex e.g., STI’s (sexually transmitted infections)
• Explore strategies for coping with unplanned pregnancy
• Understand the pathways available to support with unplanned pregnancies

Me and My Online World

• The opportunities and potential risks of establishing and conducting relationships online, and strategies to manage the risks
• The legal and ethical responsibilities people have in relation to online aspects of relationships
• To recognise unwanted attention (such as harassment and stalking including online), ways to respond and how to seek help
• To recognise how to receive support if someone has been a victim of revenge porn/deep fakes
• Ways to access information and support for relationships including those experiencing difficulties

Leaving Well

• How to prepare to ‘leave well’
• To set realistic yet ambitious career and life goals which are matched to personal values, interests, strengths and skills
• To evaluate the ‘next step’ options available, such as higher education, further training or apprenticeships, and gap year opportunities
• To evaluate their own personal development, considering future opportunities and how to develop themselves further.

Me and My Community: Anti- Racism

• What racism is and how it can present itself
• How stereotypes can lead to prejudice and racism
• How racism affects people in the school as well as wider community
• How can we be anti-racist

Healthy Relationships

• How to safely and responsibly form, maintain and manage romantic relationships.
• Explore the importance of respect in a relationship
• The skills to help manage conflict and strategies to reconcile after disagreements
• Understand Abuse in relationships, with reference to VAWG as well as Domestic Violence.

Being a Sensible Consumer

• Explore teenage spending.
• Explore the tactics used to encourage spending.
• Understand how to be a sensible consumer, with reference to budgeting

Relationships and Sex Education Programme

• The Law in relation to sexual consent, sexual exploitation, abuse and the effects on relationships
• The Law in relation to harassment, rape, domestic abuse and the effects on relationship
• The Law in relation to forced marriage, honour-based violence and FGM and the effects on relationships

Decision Making and communication styles.

• What factors contribute to our decision making?
• An effective model of decision making (divergent and convergent thinking)
• What type of communication styles are there?
• What type of communicator am I? With reference to Myers Briggs
• How do I effectively communicate my decision?