Year 11 — PSHCE

Term 1: Building for the Future

In this unit students will explore how they build for their future by establishing priorities, looking at paid employment, vocation and fulfilment, life goals and exploring the job market.

Employability

The quality of being suitable for paid work.

Employment trends

Changes to the population and the work force which have created changes in the demand for different types of jobs.

Payslip

A note given to an employee when they have been paid, detailing the amount of pay given, and the tax and insurance deducted.

Goal

An aim or purpose.

Social

Relating to the life, welfare, and relationships of human beings in a community.

Personal

Relating to the personal or private parts of someone's life.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

This unit helps to prepare students for their future personal lives.

Create a supportive community:

Students will be better equipped to support others with issues raised by the unit through out their lives.

Term 2: Relationships and Families

In this unit students will build on their knowledge and understanding of relationships and families by exploring long term relationships and marriage, forced marriage and honour-based violence, pregnancy, abortion and miscarriage, parenthood and parenting skills, adoption and parenting.

Consent

Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.

Boundary

The limit of what someone considers to be acceptable behaviour.

Relationships

The way two or more people are connected, or the way they behave towards each other.

Law

The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.

Marriage

To become someone's husband or wife.

Family

Group of people made up of parents and children and sometimes other relations or carers.

Forced Marriage

A marriage which family members or guardians enforce by making the couple feel as though they have no alternative or by actively threatening them.

Arranged Marriage

A marriage which family members or guardians may help 'arrange' by finding suitable partners and matching them together. This is consented to by the couple, although sometimes coercion or persuasion methods are used.

Mental Health

The condition of someone's mind and whether or not they are suffering from any mental illness.

Consent

Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.

Parenthood

The state of being a parent and the responsibilities involved.

Family honour

The idea that a family must maintain a particular standing in a community.

Emotional blackmail

The act of using a person's feelings of kindness, sympathy, or duty in order to persuade them to do something or feel something.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

This unit enables students to be more socially and politically aware and will enable them to be more aware of their consumption of media.

Create a supportive community:

Students to understand UK and world rights and how they can be used to protect citizens.

Term 3: Health and Independence

In this unit students explore how to develop independence with health whilst developing knowledge and understanding of cosmetic and aesthetic body alterations, blood, organ and stem cell donations, personal time and care, coping with difficult circumstances and understanding the NHS.

Hygiene

The practice or principles of keeping yourself and your environment clean in order to maintain health and prevent disease.

Emotion

A strong feeling deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.

Development

The process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes more advanced.

Hormones

A chemical substance produced in the body that controls and regulates the activity of certain cells or organs. Many hormones are secreted by special glands, such as thyroid hormone produced by the thyroid gland.

Self Esteem

How someone feels about themselves i.e. positively or negatively.

Mental Health

The health and well-being of the brain.

Immunisation

The action of making a person or animal immune to infection, typically by inoculation.

Vaccination

Treatment with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.

Cosmetic surgery

Cosmetic surgery is where a person chooses to have an operation, or invasive medical procedure, to change their physical appearance for cosmetic rather than medical reasons.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

This unit will equip students with the knowledge to make safe and healthy decisions throughout their adult lives.

Create a supportive community:

Students will be able to identify positive choices surrounding sexual health, as well as understanding how negative and/or negligent choices can affect others in their community.

Term 4: Preparing for Exams

In this unit students will reflect on their mock 1 and mock 2 exams; they will focus on getting organised for their public exams, plan revision, study different revision techniques a

Revision

Study of work you have done, in order to prepare for an exam.

Revision Timetable

Essentially a calendar, but instead of holidays and birthdays, it contains topics and subjects you need to revise on specific days.

Prioritise

To be able to determine the order for dealing with (a series of items or tasks) according to their relative importance.

Exam

A formal test of a person's knowledge or proficiency in a subject or skill.

Well-being

The state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students to be taught independence in study.

Create a supportive community:

Students to understand how their decisions related to study and revision can have an impact on their own and others future.

Term 5: Practical Revision

In this unit, students will receive practical tips and tricks from all core subjects, with relevance to their upcoming GCSEs. These lessons will provide help with subject-specific ways to revise, highlighting best practice and topics which will be included in their upcoming exam.

Stress

A state of mental or emotional strain resulting from difficult or demanding circumstances.

Relaxation

A state of being free from tension and anxiety.

Time management

The idea of having control over how we best use our time, making decisions in advance to use our time most effectively.

Active revision

Creating revision materials, testing ourselves, making mind maps, doing practice papers - actively learning and relearning.

Passive revision

Watching documentaries, reading without testing, listening to someone speak about a subject.

Self-discipline

Having the ability and determination to stick to the goals we set ourselves, even in the face of temptation not to.

Meditation

Focusing on your mind for a period of time, in silence or with the aid of chanting, for religious or spiritual purposes or as a method of relaxation.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

In this unit, students will support as they start preparing for their GCSE exams.

Create a supportive community:

Students to understand how their decisions related to study and revision can have an impact on their own and others future.