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KS3: RSHE

Intent

The Relationships, Sex and Health Education program is developed to help our students navigate our complex and changing world that we live in. The overall  aim is to develop healthy and happy students, who have developed knowledge and skills that will not only help them through their school years, but also during their adult life. Students will be educated about circumstances that they may face in the ‘real world’ as well as the ‘virtual world’ and explore methods of dealing with circumstances and emotions in a positive and protective way. Students, at the end of their education at Leigh Academy Wilmington, will have the skills needed to help them develop resilience and begin to work out their place in the world.

Schedule of Learning

Action Day Schedule
  • Day 1- In a world where you can be anything, be kind
  • Day 2- Our world
  • Day 3- 24 hours in A&E

Module 1 – My identity

Students will learn:

  • about identity, rights and responsibilities
  • about gender identity, transphobia and gender-based discrimination
  • about gender identity and sexual orientation

Module 2 – Basic first Aid

Students will learn:

  • basic treatment for common injuries
  • life-saving skills, including how to administer CPR
  • the purpose of defibrillators and when one might be needed

Module 4

  • LGBTQIA+

Module 6 – Mental health & wellbeing

Action Day schedule
  • Day 1- Fights, FOMO, friends and tattoos.
  • Day 2- How can we create a healthy life?
  • Day 3- How can we create a happy life?

Module 1 – Health & prevention

Students will learn:

  • about personal hygiene, germs including bacteria, viruses, how they are spread, treatment and prevention of infection, and about antibiotics
  • about dental health and the benefits of good oral hygiene and dental flossing, including healthy eating and regular check-ups at the dentist
  • (late secondary) the benefits of regular self-examination and screening
  • the facts and science relating to immunisation and vaccination
  • the importance of sufficient good quality sleep for good health and how a lack of sleep can affect weight, mood and ability to learn

Module 2 – Physical health & fitness

Students will learn:

  • the characteristics and evidence of what constitutes a healthy lifestyle, maintaining a healthy weight, including the links between an inactive lifestyle and ill health, including cancer and cardio-vascular ill-health

Module 3 – Physical health & fitness

Students will learn:

  • Relating lifestyle choices to
  • health and well being can help to
  • understand the functions of different
  • body systems, the benefits of a
  • balanced diet and the consequences of
  • poor lifestyle choices

Module 4 – Respectful relationships, including friendships

Students will learn:

  • Causes of coercive behaviour
  • Examples of coercive behaviour 
  • What counts as a healthy relationship
  • coercive or controlling behaviour
  • sexual relationships and consent accessing help.
  • LGBTQIA+
Action day schedule
  • Day 1- For better for worse, for richer, for poorer?
  • Day 2- Oh baby
  • Day 3- A Snapchat story and beyond

Module 1 – Friendship challenges (including gangs)

Students will learn:

  • to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy friendships
  • how to assess risk and manage influences, including online
  • about ‘groupthink’ and how it affects behaviour
  • how to recognise passive, aggressive and assertive behaviour, and how to communicate assertively
  • to manage risk in relation to gangs
  •  about the legal and physical risks of carrying a knife
  • about positive social norms in relation to drug and alcohol use
  • about legal and health risks in relation to drug and alcohol use, including addiction and dependence

Module 2 – Physical health & fitness

Students will learn:

  • the positive associations between physical activity and promotion of mental wellbeing, including as an approach to combat stress
  • about the science relating to blood, organ and stem cell donation.

Module 3 – Health & prevention

Students will learn:

  • The immune system
  • Immunisation
  • HPV Vaccines and protection provided towards cervical cancer, vaginal cancer, vulval cancer, anal cancer, cancer of the penis, some cancers of the head and neck, and genital warts.

Module 4 – Drugs, Alcohol & Tobacco

Students will learn:

  • the facts about legal and illegal drugs and their associated risks, including the link between drug use, and the associated risks, including the link to serious mental health conditions
  • the law relating to the supply and possession of illegal substances
  • the physical and psychological risks associated with alcohol consumption and what constitutes low risk alcohol consumption in adulthood
  • the physical and psychological consequences of addiction, including alcohol dependency
  • awareness of the dangers of drugs which are prescribed but still present serious health risks
  • the facts about the harms from smoking tobacco (particularly the link to lung cancer), the benefits of quitting and how to access support to do so

Module 5 – Sexual Health

Students will learn:

  • Personal values, assertive communication (including in relation to contraception and sexual health)
  • about registering with and accessing doctors, sexual health clinics, opticians and other health services
  • how to handle unwanted attention, including online
Form
  • Module 1- Mindfulness and mental health
  • Module 2 – The dangers of alcohol and smoking
  • Module 3 – How can we be healthy? Links to personal hygiene and tooth decay
  • Module 4 – Celebrating diversity
  • Module 5 –  Our impact on the world
  • Module 6 – What is your identity? How is it created? Why is it important?

Implementation

Students are taught the 13 topics of RSHE through a spiralled curriculum, with knowledge built and developed as they progress throughout the school. Content is delivered during Action days and during form sessions on a weekly basis. The content, despite remaining similar, will change and be amended to suit the needs of the current cohort.

Impact

Through lessons based on the 13 key elements of the framework, students will develop and build on knowledge gained, to help them develop the resilience, skills and knowledge that will help them to develop a healthy, happy and informed life.  Through the curriculum, students will be able to develop coping mechanisms to promote positive mental health, thus enhancing their experiences both socially and academically.

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