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KS4

Key Stage Four Curriculum Overview
Year 10
  NAME OF TOPIC KEY CONTENT OF THE TOPIC ASSESSMENT POINTS

HT1

Alcohol and healthy choices

  • Alcohol medical guidance and the law
  • Binge drinking

Minimum alcohol pricing research project

HT2

Being safe (part one

  • Forced marriage
  • Honour based violence
  • FGM

Student workbook

HT3

Ethical consumerism

  • What does it mean to be an ethical consumer?
  • The human and environmental impact of ‘fast fashion’
  • Food wastage and the rise of food banks
  • Black Friday and the impact of advertising

Ethical consumerism essay

HT4

Emotional wellbeing and mental health

  • Emotional wellbeing and mental health
  • Dealing with stress
  • Managing grief and bereavement

Mental health school action plan

HT5

 

 

HT6

Being safe (Part two)

 

 

Relationships and Sex Education

  • Sexting/sharing of explicit images
  • Pornography
  • County lines

 

  • Parenting skills and family life
  • Different types of relationships and sexualities
  • Contraception and STIs
  • What makes ‘good sex’?
  • Safe sex and chem-sex

County lines student workbook

 

STIs information leaflet

HT7

Identity and community

  • Identity
  • British values focus:
  • Democracy
  • The rule of law
  • The tripartite system of UK democracy

Self-directed study task on three British values

Year 11
  NAME OF TOPIC KEY CONTENT OF THE TOPIC ASSESSMENT POINTS

HT1

Body image

  • Body image, men and the media
  • Body shaming
  • Clean eating and restrictive diets
  • Eating disorders

Eating disorder group projects / presentations

HT2

Exam Stress and study skills

  • What are the symptoms and signs of stress?
  • What can we do to cope with exam stress?
  • Mindfulness and breathing exercises
  • Exam preparation / study skills
  • Sixth form transition

Revision action plan / target setting

HT3

 

 

HT4-5

Men’s health

 

 

Extremism and radicalisation

  • Testicular/ prostate/ penile cancer
  • Skin cancer signs and symptoms
  • Self-examination, screening and vaccinations

 

  • Valuing diversity
  • Understanding and preventing extremism
  • Radicalisation

Orchid charity poster and information booklet

HT6

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GCSE Exams