Progressive content

Children will learn

This will be your life!

• Identify aspirational goals; 

• Describe the actions needed to set and achieve these. 

Our recommendations

• Present information they researched on a health and wellbeing issues outlining the key issues and making suggestions for any improvements concerning those issues. 

What's the risk (1)

• Identify risk factors in a given situation; 

• Understand and explain the outcomes of risk-taking in a given situation, including emotional risks.

What's the risk (2)

• Recognise what risk is;

• Explain how a risk can be reduced;

• Understand risks related to growing up and explain the need to be aware of these; 

• Assess a risk to help keep themselves safe.

5 ways to wellbeing project

• Explain what the five ways to wellbeing are; 

• Describe how the five ways to wellbeing contribute to a healthy lifestyle, giving examples of how they can be implemented in people's lives.

Progressive content

Children will learn

I look great!

• Understand that fame can be short-lived;

• Recognise that photos can be changed to match society's view of perfect;

• Identify qualities that people have, as well as their looks.

Media manipulation

• Define what is meant by the term stereotype; 

• Recognise how the media can sometimes reinforce gender stereotypes; 

• Recognise that people fall into a wide range of what is seen as normal; 

• Challenge stereotypical gender portrayals of people.

Pressure online

• Understand the risks of sharing images online and how these are hard to control, once shared; 

• Understand that people can feel pressured to behave in a certain way because of the influence of the peer group; 

• Understand the norms of risk-taking behaviour and that these are usually lower than people believe them to be.

Helpful or unhelpful - managing change

• Recognise some of the changes they have experienced and their emotional responses to those changes; 

• Suggest positive strategies for dealing with change; 

• Identify people who can support someone who is dealing with a challenging time of change.

Is this normal? 

• Define the word 'puberty' giving examples of some of the physical and emotional changes associated with it; 

• Suggest strategies that would help someone who felt challenged by the changes in puberty; 

• Understand what FGM is and that it is an illegal practice in this country; 

• Know where someone could get support if they were concerned about their own or another person's safety.

Making babies

• Identify the changes that happen through puberty to allow sexual reproduction to occur;

• Know a variety of ways in which the sperm can fertilise the egg to create a baby;  IVF, surrogacy and adoption are included.  

• Know the legal age of consent and what it means.