Year 6 PSHE & RSE

Autumn 1

Me and my relationships

• Working together

Demonstrate a collaborative approach to a task;

Describe and implement the skills needed to do this.

• Solve the friendship problem

Recognise some of the challenges that arise from friendships;

Suggest strategies for dealing with such challenges demonstrating the need for respect and an assertive approach.

• Behave yourself

Recognise and empathise with patterns of behaviour in peer-group dynamics;

Recognise basic emotional needs and understand that they change according to circumstance;

Suggest strategies for dealing assertively with a situation where someone under pressure may do something they feel uncomfortable about.

• Assertive skills

List some assertive behaviours;

Recognise peer influence and pressure;

Demonstrate using some assertive behaviours, through role-play, to resist peer influence and pressure.

• Don't force me

Describe ways in which people show their commitment to each other;

Know the ages at which a person can marry, depending on whether their parents agree;

Understand that everyone has the right to be free to choose who and whether to marry.

• Acting appropriately

Recognise that some types of physical contact can produce strong negative feelings;

Know that some inappropriate touch is also illegal.

Autumn 2

Valuing difference

• OK to be different

Recognise that bullying and discriminatory behaviour can result from disrespect of people's differences;

Suggest strategies for dealing with bullying, as a bystander;

Describe positive attributes of their peers

• We have more in common than not

Know that all people are unique but that we have far more in common with each other than what is different about us;

Consider how a bystander can respond to someone being rude, offensive or bullying someone else;

Demonstrate ways of offering support to someone who has been bullied .

• Respecting differences

Demonstrate ways of showing respect to others, using verbal and non-verbal communication.

• Tolerance and respect for others.

Understand and explain the term prejudice;

Identify and describe the different groups that make up their school/wider community/other parts of the UK;

Describe the benefits of living in a diverse society;

Explain the importance of mutual respect for different faiths and beliefs and how we demonstrate this.

• Advertising friendships

Explain the difference between a friend and an acquaintance;

Describe qualities of a strong, positive friendship;

Describe the benefits of other types of relationship (e.g. neighbour, parent/carer, relative).

• Boys will be Boys? Challenging gender stereotypes

Define what is meant by the term stereotype;

Recognise how the media can sometimes reinforce gender stereotypes;

Recognise that people fall into a wide range of what is seen as normal;

Challenge stereotypical gender portrayals of people.

Spring 1

Keeping Safe

• Think before you click

Accept that responsible and respectful behaviour is necessary when interacting with others online and face-to-face;

Understand and describe the ease with which something posted online can spread.

• To share or not to share?

Know that it is illegal to create and share sexual images of children under 18 years old;

Explore the risks of sharing photos and films of themselves with other people directly or online;

Know how to keep their information private online.

• Rat Park

Define what is meant by addiction, demonstrating an understanding that addiction is a form of behaviour;

Understand that all humans have basic emotional needs and explain some of the ways these needs can be met.

• What sort of drug is . . . .?

Explain how drugs can be categorised into different groups depending on their medical and legal context;

Demonstrate an understanding that drugs can have both medical and non-medical uses;

Explain in simple terms some of the laws that control drugs in this country.

• Drugs: Its the law!

Understand some of the basic laws in relation to drugs;

Explain why there are laws relating to drugs in this country.

• Alcohol: what is normal?

Understand the actual norms around drinking alcohol and the reasons for common misperceptions of these;

Describe some of the effects and risks of drinking alcohol.

Spring 2

Rights and Respect

• Two sides to every story

Define the terms 'fact', 'opinion', 'biased' and 'unbiased', explaining the difference between them;

Describe the language and techniques that make up a biased report;

Analyse a report also extract the facts from it

• Fakebook friends

Know the legal age (and reason behind these) for having a social media account;

Understand why people don’t tell the truth and often post only the good bits about themselves, online;

Recognise that people’s lives are much more balanced in real life, with positives and negatives.

• What's it worth

Explain some benefits of saving money;

Describe the different ways money can be saved, outlining the pros and cons of each method;

Describe the costs that go into producing an item;

Suggest sale prices for a variety of items, taking into account a range of factors;

Explain what is meant by the term interest.

• Happy shoppers - caring for the environment

Explain what is meant by living in an environmentally sustainable way;

Suggest actions that could be taken to live in a more environmentally sustainable way.

• Democracy in Britain 1 - elections

• Democracy in Britain 2 - How (most) laws are made

Summer 1

Being my best

• This will be your life

Identify aspirational goals;

Describe the actions needed to set and achieve these.

• Our recommendations

Present information they researched on a health and wellbeing issues outlining the key issues and making suggestions for any improvements concerning those issues.

• What's the risk (1)

Identify risk factors in a given situation;

Understand and explain the outcomes of risk-taking in a given situation, including emotional risks.

• What's the risk (2)

Recognise what risk is;

Explain how a risk can be reduced;

Understand risks related to growing up and explain the need to be aware of these;

Assess a risk to help keep themselves safe.

• Basic First Aid, including sepsis

• Fiveways to wellbeing project

Explain what the five ways to wellbeing are;

Describe how the five ways to wellbeing contribute to a healthy lifestyle, giving examples of how they can be implemented in people's lives.

Summer 2

Growing and Changing

• I look great!

Understand that fame can be short-lived;

Recognise that photos can be changed to match society's view of perfect;

Identify qualities that people have, as well as their looks.

• Media Manipulation

Define what is meant by the term stereotype;

Recognise how the media can sometimes reinforce gender stereotypes;

Recognise that people fall into a wide range of what is seen as normal;

Challenge stereotypical gender portrayals of people.

• Pressure online

Understand the risks of sharing images online and how these are hard to control, once shared;

Understand that people can feel pressured to behave in a certain way because of the influence of the peer group;

Understand the norms of risk-taking behaviour and that these are usually lower than people believe them to be.

• Helpful or unhelpful? Managing change

Recognise some of the changes they have experienced and their emotional responses to those changes;

Suggest positive strategies for dealing with change;

Identify people who can support someone who is dealing with a challenging time of change.

• Is this normal?

Define the word 'puberty' giving examples of some of the physical and emotional changes associated with it;

Suggest strategies that would help someone who felt challenged by the changes in puberty;

Understand what FGM is and that it is an illegal practice in this country;

Know where someone could get support if they were concerned about their own or another person's safety.

• Making babies

Identify the changes that happen through puberty to allow sexual reproduction to occur;

Know a variety of ways in which the sperm can fertilise the egg to create a baby;

Know the legal age of consent and what it means.

• What is HIV (optional)

Explain how HIV affects the body’s immune system;

Understand that HIV is difficult to transmit;

Know how a person can protect themself from HIV.