Life Development

Life Development covers your personal, social, health & economic education as well as citizenship. It’s a topic that you’ll do all the way through your years at Selby High School and equips you with the skills and knowledge to engage with yourself, others around you and the wider world. We call it Life Development because that’s quite simply what it is, it’s all about life! In year 7 you will have two lessons each fortnight and the best bit is the focus is all about you. Your lessons in September are aimed at helping you make that leap into secondary school life. Over the course of the year you’ll have done topics that explore your: Personal wellbeing and mental health, physical health and wellbeing, social education and relationships and the law.

Getting Ready

Research / Investigate

1. What parliament is and how it works

2. Strategies for making new friends

3. How our friends shape our decisions

4. What mental health is and the benefits of a good daily routine such as sleep, minimising screen time and practicing mindfulness

Skills

Evaluative Skills: One of the key skills in LD is to be able to debate - to argue your point but understand others as well. Try having a discussion about the following statements and see if you can create arguments both for and against:

"Parliament is outdated"

"The voting age should be lowered"