Year 10 — PSHCE

Term 1: British Values, Religion and Society

This unit explores critical thinking and fake news, religion vs cults, exploring Britishness and British Values, LGBT rights and British Values, what are human rights, and exploring human rights.

Human rights

The basic rights that it is generally considered all people should have, such as justice and the freedom to say what you think.

Community

The people living in one particular area or people who are considered as a unit because of their common interests, social group, or nationality.

Identity

Who a person is, or the qualities of a person or group that make them different from others.

Equal opportunities

All people having the same chances in life.

Fake news

Inaccurate, fake and fictional stories created by unscrupulous authors to trick the public into thinking they are true.

Religion

A particular system of faith and worship.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students encouraged to explore their own opinions whilst using sensibility and respect.

Create a supportive community:

Inclusion and diversity explored and taught.

Term 2: Safety and Ethics

In this unit students will learn about honour based violence, forced marriages, breast ironing and child brides, online gambling and gaming, social media validation, keeping data safe, modern day slavery, and causes of knife crime.

Peer pressure

Direct influence on people by peers, to follow by changing their attitudes, values, or behaviours to conform to those of the influencing group.

Anti-social behaviour

Behaviour likely to cause alarm, harassment, or distress to other people around you.

Knife crime

Illegal activities involving knives.

Awareness

Knowledge or perception of a situation or fact.

Gambling

The activity of betting money, for example in a game or on a horse race or sport.

Social media

Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.

Modern day slavery

When an individual is exploited by others, for personal or commercial gain. Whether tricked, coerced, or forced, they lose their freedom.

Debt

Something, especially money, that is owed to someone else, or the state of owing something.

Family honour

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

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students will develop in a range of areas during this topic, including becoming more aware of their own safety and ethical viewpoints, whilst reaching their own decisions regarding this topic.

Create a supportive community:

Students will be able to recognise positive choices regarding safety and ethics and will have an understanding of how negative choices in this topic may affect others and the community around them.

Term 3: Sexual Ethics

This unit includes campaigning against female genital mutilation (FGM), sexting and nudes, pornography, domestic abuse and violence, relationships, sexual abuse and rape, and sexualisation of the media.

Amicable break-up

A break-up where the two individuals stay civil, don't attack each other and respect each other's boundaries.

Pornography

Printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate sexual excitement.

Female genital mutilation (FGM)

A procedure where the female genitals are deliberately cut, injured or changed.

Sexting

The action or practice of sending sexually explicit photographs or messages via mobile phone.

Nudes

The production or distribution of images where the subject is naked.

Domestic abuse

An incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and violent behaviour.

Media

The main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the internet) regarded collectively.

  • 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 with regards to sexual ethics and safety.

Create a supportive community:

Students to understand and follow the law relating to sexual ethics. Students will recognise positive choices, as well as identifying how negative choices may affect others and their community.

Term 4: Exploring RSE further

This unit explores asexuality and sexual orientation, gender stereotypes, cyber flashing and unsolicited images, peer on peer abuse, up-skirting, and why males don't talk.

Asexuality

The quality or characteristic of having no sexual feelings or desire.

Sexual orientation

A person's sexual identity or self-identification as bisexual, straight, gay, pansexual, etc.

Stereotypes

A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Cyberflashing

Involves sending obscene pictures to strangers online, often done through Bluetooth or AirDrop transfers between devices.

Unsolicited images

An image that is sent to someone who has not requested it, has not consented to it, or has expressly prohibited it.

Peer on peer abuse

When there is any kind of physical, sexual, emotional or financial abuse or coercive control exercised between children.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students will understand the law with regards to relationships and sex. Students will know how to keep themselves safe and will understand how beliefs and opinions should be shared and respected.

Create a supportive community:

Students will be able to recognise positive choices in this topic and will understand how their choices can affect their community.

Term 5 : Rights and Responsibilities

This unit looks at the 'Instagram generation', targeted advertising, marriage, rights and responsibilities, consumer rights, employment rights and exploring a payslip.

Employment trends

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

Unions

The action of joining together or the fact of being joined together, especially in a political or working context.

Employability

The skills and abilities that allow you to be employed.

Tax

A compulsory contribution to the government taken from wages, company profits and added to certain products.

Payslip

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

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students will develop in a range of areas during this topic, including becoming more aware whilst developing their own understanding and decisions regarding their own rights and responsibilities.

Create a supportive community:

Students will be able to recognise positive choices and how negative choices in this topic may affect others and the community around them.

Term 6: Mental Health and Well-being

In this unit pupils explore child abuse and child sexual exploitation (CSE), screen time and safe use of phones, common types of mental health, self-harm, suicide, (thoughts and feelings) and promoting emotional well-being.

Well-being

The state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.

Consent

Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something

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.

Self harm

Purposefully hurting yourself physically or emotionally.

Protective behaviours

Protective Behaviours (PBs) is a safety awareness and resilience building programme which helps children and adults to recognise any situation where they feel worried or unsafe, such as feeling stressed, bullied or threatened; and explores practical ways

Risk

Expose (someone or something valued) to danger, harm, or loss.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students will develop knowledge of mental health and wellbeing whilst understanding how they can make positive decisions to protect themselves.

Create a supportive community: