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Year 11 - 6th Form Applicants Morning - Wednesday 28th January
All Year 11 pupils will be participating in Applicants Morning during Period 1 and 2 on Wednesday 28th January.
Applicants morning is designed to help support Year 11 with making informed choices for post-16 study and to provide a clear pathway to achieving their goals.
Pupils will be split into 4 groups and participate in the following activities:
Group 1 - Trip to Barnet and Southgate College (Southgate Campus)
Group 2 - Apprenticeships talk (AIM) and College Applications
Group 3 - Post 16 choices and study skills
Group 4 - CCF Sixth Form and A-level taster sessions
My Zone : Next Week's Lesson Years 7- 10
Week 4: My Boundaries: Week 4- My Body: Understanding Changes and Feelings (week commencing 26th Jan)
This half term, students across Years 7–11 have begun the My Relationships unit in MyZone. This unit supports young people to develop the knowledge, confidence, and skills they need to build healthy, respectful, and safe relationships now and as they grow older.
This week, students explored consent, personal space, what is or is not consent, when consent is more complex, what coercion and extortion are and moved onto topics like sexual abuse, harassment, legal rights, bystander responsibility and victim support in older year groups.
Year 8 had sessions split into girls and boys and looked at body changes during puberty and discussed gender specific content like periods and period hygiene and erections and nocturnal emissions (wet dreams).
Next week, lessons will focus on My Body: Understanding Changes and Feelings. Across the year groups, students will learn about looking after their bodies from a hygiene and self-care perspective and how it relates to their self worth up to looking at sexual readiness and body autonomy and choices in older years.
EXCEPTION: Year 8 will be doing a different topic next week: My Rights: Consent, Respect and the Law
This is because they looked at the MY BODY topic last week
NO MYZONE FOR YEAR 9 AND YEAR 11 NEXT WEEK
Next week Year 9 and Year 11 are not doing conventional MyZone sessions
Year 9 are doing Holocaust memorial assembly
Year 11 are doing application morning and workshops
MyZone Lesson Wednesday 28st January 2026
Year 7 – Respect, Self-Worth and Personal Hygiene
Lesson covers:
Key personal hygiene habits and why they matter.
How to do hygiene routines properly.
How hygiene supports physical and mental health.
Ways self-care improves relationships and confidence.
Understanding self-worth and why it matters.
Link between self-worth and healthy habits.
Reflection on personal habits and respect for your body.
Poster activity to show favourite self-care habits and why they matter
Year 8 – Understanding FGM and Other Non Concentual Illegal Activities
Lesson covers:
Understanding bodily autonomy and consent – Students explore what it means to have control over their own body and to give or withhold consent.
Identifying pressure on personal choices – Exploring why people may feel forced to do things to their body due to family, culture, peers, trends, or social expectations.
Defining consent – What it is, what it isn’t, and how it applies to everyday life and serious situations.
Recognising illegal and harmful practices – FGM, virginity testing, and hymenoplasty are explained, including what they involve.
Consequences of harmful practices – Students learn about immediate, long-term physical, and psychological impacts of FGM, virginity testing, and hymenoplasty.
Bodily autonomy in everyday life – Identifying everyday choices where students can exercise control over their bodies safely.
Warning signs that someone may be at risk – Behavioural, emotional, communication, physical, situational, and social indicators are covered.
Knowing how and where to seek help – Trusted adults, medical professionals, legal authorities, online services, and charities are identified for reporting concerns.
This is a sensitive topic please find additional resources below:
NSPCC – https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/types-of-abuse/female-genital-mutilation-fgm/
FORWARD UK – https://www.forwarduk.org.uk/about-us/
END FGM - https://www.endfgm.eu/female-genital-mutilation/what-is-fgm/
Year 9 – NO MYZONE LESSON
Holocaust memorial assembly
Year 10 – Sexual Readiness and Personal Choice
Lesson covers:
Explores what sexual readiness means and challenges myths such as readiness being based on age, relationship status, or what others are doing.
Examines emotional readiness, including confidence to say yes or no, understanding feelings, consent, communication, responsibility, and managing pressure.
Explores physical readiness, including health risks, contraception and protection, consent, hygiene, partner readiness, and legal considerations.
Identifies different sources of pressure that can influence sexual decisions, including peers, relationships, family, culture, media, and internal thoughts.
Explores pressure both to become sexually active and to wait, highlighting that pressure can exist in either direction and feel overwhelming.
Reinforces the message that sexual choices are personal, with no deadline or “right” timeline, and that only the individual can decide when they are ready.
Develops communication skills for expressing readiness, setting boundaries, and checking in before, during, and after situations involving intimacy.
Signposts support and trusted resources, including school staff, healthcare professionals, and confidential helplines, to help students seek advice or support safely.
Please find additional resources below:
BROOK - https://www.brook.org.uk/
Year 11 – NO MYZONE LESSON
Application information morning
Reminder: STEM Futures- Year 10 & 12 Programmes
Careers information:
For students of Black heritage interested in studying STEM.
A multi-year programme of activities and support for students of Black heritage who are interested in studying STEM.
STEM Futures has been developed to support students discover the wide range of subjects within STEM studies and support them with the university application process. Students can join the programme in Year 10 or Year 12.
Students will take part in subject-specific workshops linked to the STEM subjects they are studying at GCSE or A Level. They will also join a range of engaging personal development sessions focused on exam preparation and communication skills designed to help students feel more confident about their future in STEM.
Events run in-person so applicants need to live in London to be able to commute to South Kensington Campus.
Applications are open and will close on Monday 9 February 2026 for Year 10 and Monday 12 January 2026 for Year 12.
You can find more information here:
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