Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) is an important part of our curriculum. We follow the statutory framework outlined by the DfE, ensuring that all content is covered at a stage that is age appropriate. Whilst there are elements woven into a large number of subject curricular, the statutory elements are delivered through PSHE, Science and RE. Below you can find information on the key areas that are delivered in each year group – click on each year group. (Where there are ‘blank’ sections within the table, there is no specific foci on RSE content within that subject for that year group.)
Year 7
Year 7 Science & Biology
Cells
- Introduction to how bodies are designed, including talking about specialized cells such as egg and sperm cells
Reproduction
- Male and Female Reproductive Systems
- Puberty: Changes in male and female bodies
- Menstruation
- Fertilization
- Pregnancy including miscarriage
Year 7 RE
New SOW not fully planned or implemented
Year 7 PSHE & RSE
Mental and Emotional Health
- Resilience
- Recognizing emotions
- Understanding how and why I feel
- Bullying
- Cyberbullying
- Gaming addiction
- Social media safety
- Self esteem
E-safety
- E-safety: Using your ipad safely
- Using the internet
- Staying safe in a digital world
- Consequences of internet use
- Sharing information online
- Online risks
- Understanding your digital footprint
Physical Health
- Personal hygiene
- Puberty: The menstrual cycle
- Living a healthy lifestyle
- Risks to health: Smoking, Alcohol, Drugs
- Careers
Economics and Finance
- Understanding money, Personal finance management
- Financial decision making
- Rights and responsibilities online, sharing content
- How we value each other
- Personal boundaries and appropriate relationships
- Respect, value and dignity
Year 8
Year 8 Science & Biology
Year 8 RE
Relationships:
- Marriage
- Types of love
Citizenships:
- Discipleship and living out the Gospel
Year 8 PSHE & RSE
Mental and Emotional health
- Feelings and how we manage them
- What impacts out emotional wellbeing
- Recognizing the signs of emotional wellbeing
- Resilience
- Managing risky situations
Careers
- Physical Health
- Understanding vaccination and immunization
- Planning healthy meals, disordered eating
- Factors that impact your health
- Dental health
- Sleep hygiene
- First aid and CPR, Protecting and preserving life
Economics, Finance and E-Safety
- Personal Finacial management
- value for money and budgeting
- Online banking
- E-safety: Selfie safety
- Digital footprint
Relationships
- Different types of relationships
- Personal boundaries
- Sex and the law, Pornography
- Committed relationships, Marriage
- Unhealthy relationships
Citizenship
- What causes problems in a community
- How we can challenge prejudice and discrimination
- The crime and protected characteristics
- Extremism and radicalization
Year 9
Year 9 Science and Biology
Year 9 RE
Relationships, Physical and Sexual Health:
- Abortion
Citizenship:
- Linking to protected characteristics we study Islam
Careers:
- Vocation topic
Year 9 PSHE & RSE
Economics, Finance and E-Safety
- Your digital footprint
- Fake news
- Cyberbullying
- E-safety: The law
- Selfie safety
- Types of financial risk
- Investments and setting up a buisness
- Budgeting
- Online money risks: Gambling
- Online risks: Viewing explicit material
Mental and Emotional Health
- Understanding anxieties vs worries
- Coping with stress (Options choices)
- Impact of social media on mental health
- How to manage your mental health
- Strategies for maintaining mental health
- Body image and self esteem
- Happiness
- Social media and self esteem
Careers
Citizenship
- The liberties enjoyed by citizens of the UK
- UK Political system
- The justice system
- Citizens working together in society
- Protected characteristics
Relationships, Physical and Sexual health
- Contraception
- Substance misuse: Drugs, Alcohol, Vaping
- Sex and the law: Pornography
- Gender Identity, LGBTQ+
Year 10
Year 10 Science & Biology
- Biological basis for reproduction including a revision of the reproductive system and the menstrual cycle
- Contraception
- Natural family planning and abstinence
- Artificial methods of contraception including efficacy of different methods
- Hormonal control of the menstrual cycle
- Contraception including the natural and the artificial control of fertility
- In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
Year 10 RE
Year 10 PSHE & RSE
Economics, Finance and E-Safety
- Independent living: mortgages and renting
- Pensions and planning for the future
- Identity theft and fraud
- E-safety: Online gaming (Brecks last game)
- Online behavior and personal responsibility
- E-safety: Selfies and image Sharing
Relationships
- Healthy relationships
- Respect in relationships
- Relating to others
- Recognizing abuse and Spiking
- Managing unwanted attention
- Parenting skills and family life
- sexual harassment, tackling rape culture
- County lines
Physical and Sexual Health
- Sexual relationships and Consent
- FGM
- Pregnancy
- First aid: Organ and blood donation
Mental and Emotional Health
- Reframing negative thinking
- Healthy habits and looking after yourself
- Coping with loss and bereavement
- Rebuilding mental health and moving forwards
Citizenship
- Parliamentary democracy
- Freedom of speech and protest
- Democracy and Voting
- Equality and diversity
- Radicalization
- Gender stereotypes
- Discrimination and the law
Careers
Year 11
Year 11 Science & Biology
- Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
- Transmission of STIs
- Prevalence of STIs
- Treatments of STIs
- Bacteria/Viruses/Infections
- Treatment of disease
- Antibiotics
- Vaccination/Immunization
- Stem Cell donation
- Healthy lifestyle and disease
- Transplant surgery
Year 10 RE
Citizenship:
- Gender prejudice and discrimination
- Equality of men and women in the family
- We do a whole unit on Judaism (potentially works with living in Britain)?
Year 11 PSHE & RSE
Careers
Mental health and wellbeing
- Science of the developing brain
- The science of sleep
- Stress management
- Healthy habits
- Coping with loss, grief and bereavement
- Positive communication and reconciliation
Physical and sexual health
- Sexual relationships and contraception
- Pornography, Revenge Porn
- Managing situations involving drugs and alcohol
Citizenship
- Knife crime
- Individual family & community values
- Diverse and conflicting values
- Gender identity, Transgender
- Understanding diversity
- Living in Britain, Hate crime
- Extremism
Year 12
Year 12 Science & Biology
- DNA structure
- Cell division
- Communicable diseases, disease prevention and the immune system
- Evolution
Year 12 RE
Relationships:
- Natural Law/Situation Ethics (A level) Some crossover with teaching on this
Economics:
- Business Ethics (A level)
Year 12 PSHE & RSE
Mental and Emotional Health
- Own your time
- Prioritizing
- Amazing brain
- Happiness
- Supporting someone struggling with mental health
- Neurodiversity and different brains
Careers
Relationships
- Consent
- Contraception and STI’s
- Understanding rape culture and sexual harassment
- Relationship abuse
Physical and Sexual health
- Healthy habits
- Substance use
- Harm reduction
- First Aid
- Drugs and harm reduction
Economics
- UK budget, Government, Spending, Taxation
- UK budget, How might this impact me
- Skill shortages in the labour market
- Living independently, Mortgages and spending
- Investments and setting up a buisness
Citizenship
- Gender and society
- Work experience
- LGBTQ+
- Honour and tradition
Year 13
Year 13 Science & Biology
- Controlling the body through Homeostasis
- Hormones and the menstrual cycle
- Patterns of inheritance
Year 13 RE
Citizenship
- Religious pluralism and society (A level)
Relationships:
- Sexual Ethics (A level)
- Gender and Society (A level)
Year 13 PSHE & RSE
Careers
Relationships
- Talking about relationships
- Respectful relationships and communication
- Dating online, the risks and keeping safe
- Relationship abuse
- Explicit images
- Consent
- Unhealthy relationships
- Appropriate behaviors
Economics
- Budgeting
- Saving
- Tax’s and borrowing
- Pensions and the importance of planning for the future
Citizenship
- Being British
- Racism and why it matters
- Protected characteristics
- Getting political
- Crime and punishment