Wellbeing

The PHSE curriculum at Babington Academy is called Wellbeing. It aims to develop students in becoming well-rounded and aware citizens who are equipped to cope with the challenges and changes in our modern society. We aim to provide our students with a curriculum for life. The Wellbeing curriculum forms part of Babington’s Personal Development programme and includes work to improve students’ health and emotional wellbeing. PSHE and SRE develop students’ skills to manage relationships and be economically active and intend to give students the skills necessary to keep them safe, including keeping them safe in an ever-changing virtual world. In the programme we also promote students’ health and wellbeing, including personal health, mental health and healthy living. The Wellbeing curriculum is delivered in Wellbeing lessons, assemblies and across the curriculum in a variety of subjects, including Science and English. The Wellbeing curriculum develops important understanding and appreciation of the British Values of democracy, rule of law, individual liberty and respect and tolerance.

Our RSE Policy can be found on our Policies page.

Useful Resources

Websites/books/resources that students can access to help them in their learning:

bbc.co.uk/newsround – News articles
parliament.uk/education - Information about politics
moneymakesense.co.uk - Financial information for young people
themix.org.uk/ - Information on drugs, health and relationships
youngminds.org.uk– information about the emotional wellbeing of young people
familylives.org.uk -information for parents/carers on dealing with issues which affect young people

Curriculum Overview

Year group

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Respect Programme

Content covered: to explore and understand the following issues; bystander behaviour, peer pressure, stereotyping, discrimination, bullying, online safety, communicating with others, friendship and British Values.

Citizenship

Content covered: Understand the term ‘Global citizen’ and then develop knowledge of how this is related to their own lives. Look at skills and attributes needed to be an effective global citizen. Understand the impact we have on society and our own communities.

Health, Sex and Relationships Education (SRE)

Content covered: Understand the importance of good physical hygiene practices, to explore immunisations and vaccination, mental health and physical health. Have knowledge of the menstrual cycle and understand the emotional and physical effects of this. Build on knowledge of puberty, body changes, mood changes and brain development. Develop knowledge of different issues surrounding sex e.g. FGM. Build skills to help students cope with a range of relationships e.g. friendships, family etc. and consider the challenges linked to them. Knowledge and understanding of body image and the difference between healthy and unhealthy body image with links to self-esteem.

Respect Programme

Content covered: to explore and understand the following issues: online safety, bullying, feelings and behaviours and peer pressure.

Substance Misuse

Content covered: to explore and understand the risks and law about alcohol, drugs, medicine safety, tobacco and vaping.

Knife Crime

Content covered: To understand how to keep safe, the consequences and law surrounding of knife crime and the impact of knife crime.

Citizenship

Content covered: To build on learning in year 7 and explore how charities can help others

Sex and Relationships Education (SRE)

Content covered Develop knowledge of healthy and unhealthy relationships and be able to recognise signs of abuse in relationships. Understanding of consent and how to give a receive consent.

Begin to secure knowledge of CSE (child sexual exploitation) and grooming. Students will also explore contraception, forced marriage, sharing indecent images and puberty.

Respect Programme

Content covered: explore issues such as fake news, half-truths, click baiting, extremism and extremist narratives. Students to build resilience and skills to avoid the extremism trap and question ‘fake news’.

Substance Misuse

Content covered: Building on the topic in Year 8, students will further explore alcohol, drugs, medicine safety, vaping. This includes the impacts on the community and addiction.

Knife Crime

Content covered: Building on the topic in Year 8 students will understand and explore how to keep safe, the victims of knife crime, gangs and offenders.

Economic Understanding and Financial Capability (EUFC)

Content covered: This unit will give you a good basic understanding of money and finance and focuses on giving students the knowledge and understanding that they need to be confident and sensible financial consumers.

Sex and Relationships Education (SRE)

Content covered Securing knowledge of CSE and how it can impact upon a young person’s emotional wellbeing. Have skills to make positive choices in exploitative situations. Understanding the need for open communication in healthy relationships. Knowledge of where they can get advice and support if they are concerned about exploitation. Consolidating understanding of consent. Build on knowledge of contraception and why it is important. Development of knowledge around STI’s and how they are transmitted. Considering the impact of online and offline relationships, including sexting.

Respect Programme

Content covered: exploring issues such as extremism and radicalisation, bullying, mental health, hate crime, misogyny, online behaviour and learning basic first aid.

Students in year 10 will also have the opportunity to learn CPR.

Careers

Content covered: Develop knowledge and understanding regarding their future careers, which includes how employers can conduct online searches looking at your online footprint, the labour market and the opportunity to research their future.

CSE and CCE (child sexual and child criminal exploitation)

Content covered: Students will explore these two issues and understand what these types of exploitation looks like and know the signs to look out for.

Sex and Relationships Education (SRE)

Content covered: Strengthen knowledge of healthy relationships and build skills to manage relationships. Consider the impacts of relationship breakdown and challenging relationships. Understanding different families (same sex parents etc.) and consider parenting skills. Knowledge of marriage – religious viewpoints included. Re-affirm knowledge around sexual health and the risks. Consolidate knowledge of the following; contraception & STI’s.

Careers

Content covered: Students explore the next steps they can take post-16, consider what the labour market is, develop skills around effective applications and understand the importance of assessing your skills, strengths, qualities and achievements when applying for jobs.

Economic Understanding and Financial Capability (EUFC)

Content covered: Develop knowledge and understanding of budgeting for living, build skills and understanding around having a bank account, how finance is important in their lives, what is debt and the risks credit unions and payday loans pose.

Sex and Relationships Education (SRE)

Content covered: Develop and build on prior learning of SRE, including having knowledge of and understanding the risks of; CSE (Kayleigh’s Love Story), sexual health, secure understanding of consent and consider the influences and dangers of pornography. Throughout the schemata, each issue will be looked at from different relationship perspectives e.g. same sex relationships and consent.

Personal Development and Wellbeing

Content covered: Discover and develop coping skills and strategies for managing exam stress.