What is PSHCE in Grade 6-8?

What is PSHCE in Grade 6-8? 

At IST, we have designed an International Personal, Social, Health, Citizenship and Emotional curriculum to ensure coverage of the core areas of personal and social development amongst our students with different needs, beliefs, and backgrounds.

As the setting and requirements of international schools differ significantly from schools teaching a national curriculum within their country of origin, a framework designed specifically for international schools is required.

In the core aim of the PSHCE curriculum, we want to ensure students receive a rounded and diverse education which is accessible to students from all backgrounds, in whichever country they reside.

The Grade 6-8 PSHCE curriculum is a programme of study designed for students from 11 to 14 years old and is delivered in English.

It develops essential skills and attributes to enable students’ progression into adult lives.

These skills and attributes are built around 9 strands which focus on 3 core learning areas:

Health and wellbeing

Identity

Relationships

Health

Society and the wider world

Risk

Equality

Responsibility

Planning and preparing for the future

Change

Power

Future

The key concepts of the PSHCE curriculum enable students to develop vital skills through exploring their own ideals, beliefs, and attitudes. The PSHCE curriculum is designed to enable students to find their own pathways through the contexts delivered in the key learning areas of Health and Wellbeing, Society and the Wider World and Planning and Preparing for the Future.

All our students in G6 and G7 do a 8 week Mindfulness course and all G8 students will be offered to do it in their free time at break time when the sanitary period is over.

Term

G6

 

G7

G8

Autumn Half Term One

Society and the wider world  

  • Introduction (before programme)
  • Transition to secondary school - 1l.
  • What’s school all about - homework – 2l.
  • What’s school all about – Study skills & plagiarism – 2l.
  • This is Me – 2l.

 

 

Physical health & mental wellbeing and Society & the wider world

  • Introduction to IST – 1l.
  • Introduction to Mindfulness by GFE – 1l.
  • Civic Duty – 1l.
  • Equal Treatment – 1l.
  • Human Rights (Remembrance Day & Int. Children’s Rights Day) – 2l.
  • Are you Healthy? (sport) – 1l.
  • Drugs (caffeine) – 1l.
  • Tobacco – 1l.
  • Alcohol – 1l.
  • PSHCE on Christmas – 1l.

Mindfulness by GFE – whole term.

Society & the wider world

  • Debating (done) – 3l.
  • The Mass Media – 3l.

 

Physical health & mental wellbeing

  • Vaping – 1l.

Autumn Half Term Two

Relationship & sex education

  • Remembrance Day – 1l.
  • Rules for a Reason – 2l.
  • Friendship and Bullying – 3l.
  • PSHCE on Christmas – 1l.

Physical health & mental wellbeing and Society & the wider world

  • Introduction to IST – 1l.
  • Introduction to Mindfulness by GFE – 1l.
  • Civic Duty – 1l.
  • Equal Treatment – 1l.
  • Human Rights (Remembrance Day & Int. Children’s Rights Day) – 2l.
  • Are you Healthy? (sport) – 1l.
  • Drugs (caffeine) – 1l.
  • Tobacco – 1l.
  • Alcohol – 1l.
  • PSHCE on Christmas – 1l.

Mindfulness by GFE – whole term.

Physical health & mental wellbeing

and Planning and preparing for the future

  • Positive relationships – what makes a good mate – 1l.
  • Cyberbullying – 1l.
  • Peer pressure – 1l.
  • Self-esteem – taking Heads – 1l.
  • Body image in a digital world – 1l.
  • Self-Assessment
  • Decisions, Decisions
  • PSHCE on Christmas – 1l.

Spring Half Term One

Physical health & mental wellbeing

 and Society & the wider world

  • Healthy living – 4l.
  • Hygiene & puberty – 3l.
  • Introducing Citizenship (extension)

Physical health & mental wellbeing and Relationships & sex education

  • Making sense of relationships – 6l.
    • Healthy relationships
    • Gender stereotypes
    • Safer online relationships
    • Inappropriate sexualised behaviour
    • Sharing of sexual images
    • Consent
  • Mindfulness by GFE – whole term.

Planning and preparing for the future

  • Stereotype in Career Planning – 2l.
  • Choosing your options – 3l.
    • Careers - Presentation by EWH
    • Presentation by RWA
    • Presentation of the booklet option

 

  • Which Way Now?
  • Getting Involved
  • Reading of option booklet

Spring Half Term Two

Physical health & mental wellbeing  

  • Physical wellbeing – Asthma, Allergies & Diabetes - 1l.
  • Mental health and emotional wellbeing – 5l.

 

Relationships & sex education

  • The Family/families
  • Friendship and Love
  • Puberty? / changing adolescent body
  • Shyness and Confidence

Relationships & sex education

  • Relationships and Change /
  • Puberty – 1l.
  • Women rights, Gender Stereotypes & sexism – 2l.
  • LGBT+ Rights – 2l.
  • Human Reproduction
  • Contraception (by science dept) 1l.
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Sexting – 1l.

Summer Term

 

Society and the wider world

  • Student Self Review – 3l.
  • Revision Techniques – 2l.
  • After Exam Lesson – 1l.
  • Last Lesson – 1l.
  • Extension work:
    • Making a Difference
    • Iniquia
    • Childrens Rights
    • The Quandary

Society and the wider world

  • Student Self Review - 3l.
  • Revision Techniques - 2l.
  • After Exam Lesson – 1l.
  • Last Lesson – 1l.
  • Extension work:
    • Influences
    • Equal Treatment
    • The Young Consumer
    • Financial Planning

Society and the wider world

  • Student Self Review Process – 3l.
  • Revision Techniques – 2l.
  • Last Lesson – 1l.
  • Exploring Democracy
  • Democracy in Action

 MidYIS to be covered

PSHCE7 - Autumn Term

Here are the different topics to be covered in Term 1 in Grade 7. Mindfulness will be covered by GFE with one G7 group while the other group will do the PSHCE programme.

  • Introduction to IST 
  • Introduction to Mindfulness by GFE 
  • Civic Duty 
  • Equal Treatment 
  • Human Rights (Remembrance Day & Int. Children’s Rights Day) 
  • Are you Healthy? (sport) 
  • Drugs (caffeine)
  • Tobacco
  • Alcohol 
  • PSHCE on Christmas 

PSHCE7 - Spring Half Term One

Physical health & mental wellbeing - Making sense of relationships 

  • Healthy relationships
  • Gender stereotypes
  • Safer online relationships
  • Inappropriate sexualised behaviour
  • Sharing of sexual images
  • Consent

The mindfulness course will also be carried on by GFE for the second group.

PSHCE7 - Spring Half Term Two

  • Peer-Pressure - back me up
  • Cyberbullying
  • The family / families

PSHCE7 - Summer Term

Society and the wider world

  • Student Self Review
  • Revision Techniques
  • Extension work:
    • Influences
    • Equal Treatment
    • The Young Consumer
    • Financial Planning