RSHE

Sequencing

Big Question

·         Mental health and Wellbeing

·         Child on child abuse

·         Online safety

·         FGM and the Law

·         Kindness, Friendship and Team Building

1.    How can you manage the challenges of moving to a new school?

2.    Why are rules important, what are our school rules and what is in place to support you to follow these?

3.    What are your personal strengths and areas for development? (goal setting for the future)

4.    How can we demonstrate respect in the school community?

5.    How can we be aspirational students and achieve our full potential?

6.    How can we work as part of a team and support each other’s success?

(Living in Modern Britain)

1.       How do I begin to understand my community?

2.       How can we value each other?

3.       What makes a successful community?

4.       Part 2: What makes a successful community?

5.       What can cause problems in a community?

6.       How can we challenge prejudice and discrimination?

1.       What do we mean by ‘risk’?

2.       How do we manage risky situations?

3.       How do I become assertive enough to deal with peer pressure?

4.       What is the impact of bullying?

5.       What are the dangers of social media and the internet?

6.       First Aid (external provider)

1.       What do we need to keep healthy?

2.       What is the importance of healthy eating?

3.       Are there benefits to physical activity?

4.       What can support my overall health?

5.       What happens when my health goes wrong? (Emergency services)

6.       How am I doing? (Mid-Year check)

1.       What changes can I expect during puberty?

2.       How do I keep good personal hygiene

3.       Why am I feeling like this?

4.       What are the different types of relationships?

5.       What does it mean to be a good friend?

6.       What is consent?

1.       Year 6 letter writing

2.       Part 2: Year 6 letter writing

3.       What are my aspirations?

4.       How do I identify my personal strengths?

5.       What is the significance of facing challenges and problem solving?

6.       How am I doing? (Year 8 targets)

Mental Health,

Online Safety

Mental Health

Gatsby Benchmark: 3

Mental Health

Gatsby Benchmark: 3

Mental Health, Online Safety

Mental Health, Harmful Recreational Behaviours

·         Healthy Relationships

·         Consent

·         County lines and Criminal Sexual Exploitation

·         Sexting and the Law

·         Challenging Misogyny

1.       What does difference mean to me?

2.       Sexuality

3.       Gender identity

4.       What is the impact of stereotyping?

5.       What are my rights and responsibilities?

6.       How am I doing?

(Living in Modern Britain)

1.       What is discrimination?

2.       What is stereotyping and prejudice? Why is it important to be self-aware?

3.       Protected Characteristics: how can we create a society that treats people equally?

4.       Tackling prejudice: Racism and micro-aggressions.

5.       Tackling prejudice: LGBTQ+

1.       What is expected of my behaviour online?

2.       How is the internet effecting my wellbeing?

3.       How can I find balance online?

4.       Can I understand how my online experience is targeted at me?

5.       Can I identify dangerous behaviour online?

6.       What is harmful online content?

1.       How do I prioritise wellbeing management?

2.       How might we react to feelings?

3.       Dealing with negative emotions

4.       What does self-care look like for me?

5.       Body Image

6.       Part 2: Body Image

1.       What do positive relationships look like?

2.       What do negative relationships look like?

3.       How might stereotypes affect relationships?

4.       Respect, Relationships and tackling bullying

5.       Can I understand consent?

6.       What is sexual harassment?

1.       Can I identify my personal brand?

2.       What is goal setting?

3.       How do I work well with others?

4.       Why are skills for working with others important?

5.       How can I use Uni-Frog to support my career journey?

6.       How am I doing?

Mental Health, Harmful Recreational Behaviours, Harmful Sexual Behaviours

Mental Health

Gatsby Benchmark: 3

Mental Health

Gatsby Benchmark: 3

Mental Health, Online Safety

Mental Health, Harmful Recreational Behaviours

Mental Health, Harmful Sexual Behaviours

·         Attitudes to sex in the media

·         Contraception

·         STIs

·         Pregnancy and miscarriage

·         Toxic behaviour

1.       What is the significance of Black History Month?

2.       How are people’s views and opinions influenced? How can extremism manifest?

3.       What is radicalisation?

4.       BRITISH VALUES: tolerance and mutual respect- Racism

5.       BRITISH VALUES: tolerance and mutual respect- Misogyny, Sexism and Incel Culture

6.       What are my rights and responsibilities?

(Living in Modern Britain)

1.       Why do we need Laws?

2.       Part 2: Law making in society

3.       What are the links between radicalisation and hate crime?

4.       Equality, Discrimination and the Law

5.       How can the Equality Act prevent prejudice?

6.       How do I challenge injustice?

1.    Exploring attitudes and behaviours regarding drug use.

2.    Drugs, the law and managing risk.

3.    Drugs and their effects: alcohol and cannabis.

4.    How can I manage influences?

5.    What is vaping and what are the risks?

6.    How can I use self-discipline to promote health and happiness?

7.    How can I manage influences and lifestyle decisions?

1.       How has Science changed the way we look after our body?

2.        What are the differences between healthy and unhealthy lifestyles?

3.       How do I look after my body?

4.       How do I look after my mind?

5.       When should I be concerned with mental health and illness?

1.       What do positive relationships look like?

2.       How might relationships become negative?

3.       What do negative relationships look like?

4.       Can I understand how to talk about consent?

5.       How can I address sexual harassment or sexual assault?

6.       Healing Hearts – navigating grief and loss 

1.       How do I plan for the future?

2.       What do I need to plan for?

3.       What opportunities are there for me?

4.       How do I improve my prospects?

5.       What does the law say about work?

Mental Health,  Harmful Sexual Behaviours, Domestic Abuse

Mental Health

Mental Health

Mental Health, Harmful Recreational Behaviours, Harmful Sexual Behaviours

Mental Health, Harmful Recreational Behaviours

Mental Health, Harmful Recreational Behaviours, Harmful Sexual Behaviours

·         Child Criminal Exploitation

·         Drugs, alcohol and vaping

·         Gangs and knife crime

·         County lines

1.       Exploring British Values

2.       Individual and Community Values

3.       Diverse and conflicting values

4.       Equality and Hate Crime

5.       Gender Identity and Transgender

6.       How do I challenge hate in society?

(Living in Modern Britain)

1.    What does a successful community look like?

2.    What are the consequences of a community that doesn’t work and how do I avoid this?

3.    What happens when people have diverse and conflicting values: freedom of speech

4.    How do we challenge hate in society and when does it become a problem? Hate crime and the Equality Act 2010.

5.    Who is our current Government and what does it mean for society now?

6.    Is it better to live in a democracy or dictatorship?

7.    Knowledge test/rolling recall

1.       Risks involved with underage drinking and impact on physical and emotional health

2.       Risks involved with legal highs and illegal (class A&B drugs) and impact on physical and emotional health

3.       Keeping safe online (Risk of online grooming)

4.       Keeping safe online/ sexting (Risk of sextortion)

5.       End of term knowledge test (created using Seneca)

1.       How do I combat worry?

2.       New challenges

3.       Reframing negative thinking

4.       How do I recognising mental health and when do I get help?

5.       What is the effect of grief and loss?

6.       How do I promote emotional wellbeing?

1.       Why is consent important?

2.       What are the laws around consent?

3.       How do I identify safe and unsafe relationships?

4.       Pressure, coercion and control in relationships

5.       How do I manage relationship conflict and breakups?

1.       What do I want to do?

1. Types of employment and employment trends 
2. How do I market myself using personal branding?
3. Can I identify my rights and responsibilities at work?
4. What are my employment opportunities?

Harmful Recreational Behaviours, Harmful Sexual Behaviours

Mental Health

Mental Health, Online Safety, Harmful Recreational Behaviours, Harmful Sexual Behaviours

Mental Health

Mental Health, Online Safety Harmful Sexual Behaviours, Domestic Abuse

·         Planning ahead and careers choices

Gatsby Benchmark:

1, 2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7

1.       How can I manage transition to year 11?

2.       How does memory and recall work?

3.       What does health and wellbeing mean?

4.       What constitutes as an unhealthy lifestyle- (eating disorders)

5.       What constitutes as an unhealthy lifestyle-(Physical health and exercise)

6.       Week 6 (preparation for year 11 PD day)

(Living in Modern Britain)

1.       How does hate happen?

2.       What is discrimination?

3.       Tackling Prejudice: Gender (Violence against women)

4.       When can masculinity turn toxic?

5.       Tackling Prejudice: LGBTQ+

6.       How do we tackle all forms of prejudice?

         1&2. What are the risks of      addiction?

               3. What are the stresses of the world online?

         4. How can body image be affected?

5. Social Conformity

6. Have I assessed the harmful risks of vaping?

1.    How do I manage exam stress?

2.    What is the importance of physical activity and mental health?

3.    What does self-care look like?

4.    Reframing unhelpful thinking

5.    Influences on lifestyle decisions

1.       Family Conflict

2.       How can I identify a long term commitments

3.       Do I understand the importance of sexual health, fertility and routes to parenthood?

4.       What are the outcomes of pregnancy?

5.       What is marriage?

Relationships and Sexual Health Round up – Mariposa (teams)

Gatsby Benchmark: 4

Mental Health

Mental Health, Online Safety, Harmful Recreational Behaviours

Mental Health, Harmful Recreational Behaviours

Mental Health, Harmful Sexual Behaviours

2025-2026:

Theme: Looking after ourselves and others

·         Students will explore the benefits and risks associated with the online world.

·         They will learn how to protect their personal information and stay safe on social media and gaming platforms.

·         Students will understand the nature and impact of cyberbullying and identify actions they can take if they are targeted.

·         They will also learn how to spot signs of cyber predators and understand the importance of reporting inappropriate contact to trusted adults.

·         Students will develop an understanding of what FGM is, why it happens, and where it takes place.

·         They will learn about the anatomy of female genitalia to better understand the impacts of FGM.

·         Students will explore Zaynab’s story to deepen emotional understanding and reflect on how to speak out.

·         The lesson will cover the legal status of FGM in the UK and how to report it safely and confidently.

·         Students will define different types of abuse including physical, emotional, and bullying.

·         They will evaluate what makes a healthy vs. unhealthy friendship through interactive tasks.

·         Using Fatima’s story, students will explore the effects of bullying related to religion, body image, and race.

·         They will reflect on the role of upstanders and bystanders, and how to support peers facing abuse.

·         Students will learn what homophobia is and the impact it has on individuals and communities.

·         They will explore British law on hate crime and understand BBA’s zero tolerance policy toward homophobia.

·         Through case studies (e.g., Jake Daniels), students will reflect on the importance of courage and representation.

·         They will evaluate stereotypes and consider how to become upstanders in challenging discrimination.

·         Students will explore the meaning of mental health and emotional wellbeing.

·         They will consider common mental health challenges young people face, such as anxiety and low self-esteem.

·         Using case studies (e.g., Jez and Beth), they will reflect on support strategies and how friendship can improve wellbeing.

·         The lesson concludes with a team-building task focused on communication and emotional support skills.

Tuesday 20^th January 2026

Theme: Keeping ourselves safe

·          Students will explore the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships.

·         They will identify signs of domestic abuse, including emotional, physical, and sexual violence.

·          Students will reflect on case studies such as ‘Danni’s Story’ to build empathy and understanding.

·         They will also learn who they can speak to at BBA if they are concerned about themselves or someone else.

Linking to BV -Mutual respect.

·         Students will understand what sexual consent is and why it is essential in any intimate relationship.

·         They will explore the FRIES model of consent (Freely given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic, Specific).

·         Through discussion and case studies, students will examine barriers to consent and why consent cannot be given under certain circumstances (e.g. intoxication, age).

·         Key safeguarding information and support systems will be discussed.

·         Students will define sexting and understand its legal implications under UK law.

·         They will identify reasons young people may feel pressured to share images and the risks involved.

·         Students will explore the impact of sexting through real-life cases and reflect on safe online behaviours.

·         Awareness will be raised about the consequences of offences such as ‘upskirting’ and sharing indecent images.

·         Students will learn what county lines is and how young people are targeted by gangs.

·         They will examine how grooming and exploitation occur and the tactics used by criminal groups.

·         The lesson includes a focus on recognising early warning signs and protecting peers.

·         Students will discuss Jake’s story to understand the emotional and physical risks of exploitation.

·         Students will understand what vaping is and the key ingredients involved in e-liquids.

·         They will explore the short and long-term health risks of vaping, especially for young people.

·         Students will evaluate how vapes are marketed and the influence of packaging and media.

·         The session concludes with a critical look at legislation and societal responses to vaping trends.

Theme: Healthy Relationships

Student Learning:

·         – Understand what pornography is and how it misrepresents healthy relationships.

·         – Explore the historical and modern contexts of pornography.

·         – Discuss the impacts of pornography on expectations and behaviours.

·         – Define revenge porn and understand its emotional and legal consequences.

·         – Recognise trusted adults and support systems.

Student Learning:

·         – Identify differences between healthy and toxic relationships.

·         – Understand legal definitions of domestic violence, stalking, harassment, and coercive control.

·         – Reflect on the influence of historical laws on modern perceptions.

·         – Recognise warning signs of unhealthy relationships.

·         – Learn strategies for safely ending unhealthy relationships.

Student Learning:

·         – Understand the purpose of contraception and types available.

·         – Distinguish between contraception methods preventing pregnancy and STIs.

·         – Explore UK contraception usage statistics among young adults.

·         – Learn correct condom usage and safe sex practices.

·         – Address and dispel myths around contraception.

Student Learning:

·         – Define sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and transmission methods.

·         – Recognise symptoms of common STIs.

·         – Identify behaviours that increase or decrease STI risk.

– Understand the role of sexual health clinics and confidentiality for young people

Student Learning:

·         – Understand the stages of pregnancy and how conception occurs.

·         – Explore options around unplanned pregnancy.

·         – Develop empathy and understanding regarding miscarriage.

·         – Discuss shared responsibility around contraception and informed decision-making.

Friday 10^th July 2026

Theme: Making the right choices

Students will explore the impact that vaping has on an adolescent’s health and well-being. Using a verity of case study scenarios, scientific evidence and news report. Students will determine the impacts on future health and discuss sources of support and the role they play in rehabilitation and improving health and well-being.

Understanding the warning signs of child criminal exploitation and how to reduce risks of being exploited. Students in year 10 will developing previously taught knowledge of the risks associated with CCE locally and further improve their knowledge of support available and how to access it. (Links to the BV Rule of Law)

(External provider has 6 years of experience as a prison officer and has worked as a police officer for the last 3 years)

Theme: Thinking about the future