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Knowledge & Skills

The Knowledge and Skills overviews show the specific PSHE content students will learn in each unit of study throughout the year. These documents outline both the substantive knowledge (health information, social concepts, and economic understanding) and the disciplinary skills (self-management, relationship building, and critical thinking) that students will develop. Each unit is broken down to clearly identify what students need to know and what they should be able to do upon completion. Through the systematic development of both knowledge and skills, students build personal resilience, social awareness, and the capacity to make healthy, informed choices appropriate to their stage of learning.

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Relationships and Sex Education
 

Unit Progress Criteria
Knowledge Skills

Getting Ready for High School (To prepare for starting high school by getting to know my peers and better understand what to expect)
  • To share my feelings about starting high school.
  • To reflect on how prepared I am to start high school.
  • To set some goals for this year at school.

Connecting With Your Teachers (To identify the importance of a strong teacher-student relationship and practice strategies to strengthen my relationships with teachers)
  • Share information so the teacher gets to know me better.
  • Ask questions to get to know the teacher.
  • Identify ways to continue to grow our teacher-student relationship.

From Strangers to Friends (To get to know my peers and develop strategies that support me in making new connections and friendships.)
  • Understand the importance of getting to know my peers.
  • Sharing aspects of my life to build connections.
  • Identify strategies to help develop new friendships.

Building A Sense of Belonging (To understand how people feel a sense of belonging in groups and the benefits and dangers of group membership.)
  • Explain how groups provide a sense of belonging.
  • Describe how groups provide me with a sense of belonging.
  • Identify the benefits and dangers of being a part of a group.

Communication Styles (To compare and contrast three communication styles and evaluate their effectiveness. )
  • Understand the three different communication styles.
  • Identify why assertive communication is most effective.
  • Act out different communication styles.

Asking For Help (To appreciate the challenges people face when it comes to asking for help and practice how to ask for help more effectively when it's needed. )
  • Reflect on our own experiences with asking for help.
  • Explore the reasons why people don't ask for help, even when they need it.
  • Explain why it's important to ask for help.

How To Have Healthy Relationships (To evaluate my relationships and identify what it takes to maintain healthy relationships.)
  • Identify the elements of healthy relationships.
  • Reflect on and evaluate my relationships.
  • Determine ways to maintain my own healthy relationships.

Building Stronger Friendships (Identify potential causes of conflict in relationships and explore methods to reconcile them effectively.)
  • Evaluate students' currently used conflict resolution strategies.
  • Identify essential elements that help to maintain positive relationships.
  • Determine methods for addressing conflicts in future instances.

The Changing Adolescent Body (To identify the key physical and emotional changes that occur during puberty and menstruation.)
  • Recognise the physical changes in both men and women.
  • Cover the emotional and hormonal changes.
  • Recognise the fundamentals of menstrual health.

Body Changes During Puberty (Students understand the significant physical changes during puberty for both genders and their implications for emotional and physical wellbeing.)
  • Explain the changes that occur during puberty for both boys and girls.
  • Understand the emotional implications of these changes.
  • Demonstrate care and kindness to people during puberty, including themselves.

Tackling Cyberbullying (Understand online bullying, including its effects, causes, and ways to prevent it.)
  • Identify different forms of online bullying.
  • Explain why people bully others online.
  • Develop effective strategies to combat online bullying.

Understanding Bullying (To understand the causes and effects of bullying and identify strategies to minimise it in our communities.)
  • Identify reasons people behave like bullies.
  • Evaluate the impact of bullying on victims.
  • Brainstorm ways to minimise bullying in our community.

Different Types of Families (To recognise the diversity of families and that all types deserve respect)
  • Determine the range of types of families.
  • Acknowledge that all families deserve respect.
  • Identify elements of stable and committed relationships.

Positive Parenting (To examine the roles and responsibilities of parenting and compare the effectiveness of different parenting styles.)
  • Examine the importance of parents and their many roles.
  • Compare the effectiveness of different styles.
  • Reflect on own approaches to parenting.

Safe & Healthy Relationships (To identify elements that make healthy and unhealthy relationships)
  • Identify elements of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
  • Compare and contrast relationship behaviours.
  • Identify elements of own relationships and whether behaviours are healthy.

R U OK (To learn how to have an R U OK? conversation that supports a friend if they are feeling down.)
  • Understand why asking R U OK? is so important?
  • Identify and explain the four A.L.E.C. steps.
  • Practice all four steps of R U OK? conversations in a scenario.

Sexual Consent (To understand consent in various contexts, how to gain consent and when it is required. )
  • Define what consent means.
  • Identify the elements required for consent to be granted.
  • Understand the requirements for consent in different contexts.

Building Healthy Relationships (To identify characteristics that make relationships healthy or unhealthy, and then learn ways to resolve issues when they occur.)
  • Identify elements that make relationships healthy.
  • Practise the head, heart, hands, mouth, boot strategy.
  • Reflect on how I can improve my own friendships.

Health & Wellbeing
 

Unit Progress Criteria
Knowledge Skills

Combat Worry, Stress & Anxiety (To compare and contrast the effects of worry, stress and anxiety and identify strategies to address each.t)
  • Describe the differences between worry, stress and anxiety.
  • Identify ways to deal with worry, stress and anxiety.
  • Establish plans to help reduce the likelihood of these symptoms in the future.

Dealing With Worry (To identify elements of worry and develop strategies to manage any future worries effectively.)
  • Describe what it means to worry.
  • Write down my worries.
  • Identify strategies to overcome my worries.

The Stress Scales (Recognise the causes and effects of stress and identify strategies to manage it effectively..)
  • Identify my stress triggers.
  • Explore strategies to prevent and reduce stress.
  • Develop plans to manage stress in the future.

Five-Minute Meditation (To explore meditation and mindfulness and observe the benefits these can provide to my life.)
  • Identify the differences and benefits of mindfulness and meditation.
  • Practise mindful observation and meditation.
  • Reflect on my experiences and the benefits they will provide my life.

Controlling Our Emotions (To understand how emotions arise and develop strategies to control emotions when they are strong.)
  • Identify how emotions impact our thoughts and vice versa.
  • Develop strategies to slow down and control emotions in the moment.
  • Practice controlling my emotions in scenarios.

Rewiring Your Brain (To build awareness of my thoughts and how to reframe negative thoughts to grow the good in my life.)
  • Identify negative thinking patterns.
  • Practice reframing negative thinking.
  • Practice gratitude to grow the good in my life.

The Balanced Diet (To use the five principles of nutrition to evaluate whether my diet is balanced)
  • Recall the five WHO dietary principles.
  • Evaluate my diet based on the five nutrition principles.
  • Recommend changes to my diet based on the principles.

Sleep Essentials (To recognise the importance of sleep on my health and how to design an effective sleep routine.)
  • Understand the impact of a good night’s sleep.
  • Identify the habits that help people get to sleep.
  • Design a bedtime routine.

Phones And Sleep (To identify the importance of healthy sleep patterns, the role phones play in my sleep quality, and to create consistent and healthy sleep patterns.)
  • Identify the elements that impact sleep quality.
  • Explain the impact that a phone can have on sleep.
  • Create a simple bedtime routine to help limit phone use before bed.

Investing In Your Health (Develop an understanding of healthy lifestyles, and learn how to establish new healthy habits.)
  • Identify healthy and unhealthy habits.
  • Determine habits to improve or change.
  • Create a new healthy habit using the S.E.E. method.

Healthy & Balanced Lifestyles (To determine what makes up a healthy, balanced lifestyle, reflect on my own current lifestyle and consider what I could change. )
  • Identify elements of an unhealthy lifestyle.
  • Make recommendations to create a balanced lifestyle.
  • Implement actions to make my lifestyle more balanced.

Healthy Eating, Healthy Living (To understand how the food I consume affects my physical and mental health, as well as my overall sense of wellbeing.)
  • Identify the elements of healthy and unhealthy diets.
  • Evaluate my diet.
  • Identify changes to my diet that will improve my wellbeing.

Living in the Wider World
 

Unit Progress Criteria
Knowledge Skills

Managing Privacy Online (To understand why online privacy matters and how to protect data online. )
  • Recognise why online privacy is important.
  • Identify how companies use personal data online.
  • Identify how to safeguard yourself online.

The Dangers Of Your Internet Algorithm  (To understand the danger of internet algorithms and how to counter their influence.)
  • Define internet algorithms.
  • Identify the dangers internet algorithms can cause people and society.
  • Solve scenarios that counter the dangers of internet algorithms.

Social Media Addiction (Recognise the effects of excessive phone use on their mental health and implement strategies to address their own phone use.)
  • Identify the negative impact of excessive phone use.
  • Evaluate and make decisions about the use of technology.
  • Implement strategies to reduce phone and social media use.

Alcohol And Your Health (To identify the short and long-term effects of alcohol on the body.)
  • Identify the BAC of various alcoholic drinks.
  • Determine the immediate effects of consuming alcohol.
  • Examine the long-term effects of regular alcohol consumption when starting at an early age.

Smoking and Nicotine Addiction (To be able to identify the health risks of smoking and nicotine addiction.)
  • Identify the health risks of smoking and nicotine addiction.
  • Recognise the psychology and biology of nicotine addiction.
  • Identify the various methods of quitting smoking and its benefits.
Vaping: A Global Dilemma (To debunk the myths and identify the dangers posed by vaping for people and the environment.)
  • Understand the global concern surrounding vaping.
  • Identify the facts and debunk the myths surrounding vaping.
  • Understand the harm vaping causes to people and the environment.
     

 

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