Reproduction

• Male and Female Reproductive Systems
• Puberty: Changes in male and female bodies
• Menstruation
• Fertilisation
• Pregnancy including miscarriage

Friendship and Communities

• The positives and negatives of being part of a community and my role within a community
• Diversity and Heritage in my Community
• Identity and LGBTQ+
• Y7 Retreat Day

Friendships

• What are good friends?
• Making new friends
• Who are my friends?
• Discriminatory language and behaviour around race, culture and other protected characteristics
• Peer pressure
• Bullying
• Harmful Language
• Managing conflict
• Reconciliation
• Social Media
• Use of technology
• Internet safety
• Healthy and Balanced Lifestyles
• Maintaining a balance between work/rest/leisure/sleep
• Personal hygiene
• Dental hygiene
• Dealing with stress
• Dealing with an emergency
• Disability Awareness
• Everybody is different
• Everybody has different needs, including “visible and invisible” needs and differences
• Discrimination and our responsibilities

Health and Lifestyle

• Main food types and nutrients
• Balanced diets
• The effect of age/activity/religion/belief on diet and how balance can be maintained
• Malnutrition
• Introduction to eating disorders
  (This work will be complemented by work done in Food and Nutrition)
• Alcohol and Drugs
• Legal and illegal drugs
• Dangers of prescribed/over the counter drugs
• Risks of stimulants/depressants/performance enhancing drugs to both physical and mental health

Drugs and the law

• Classes of drugs
• Consequences of possession of drugs/dealing drugs

Alcohol

• Concept of units of alcohol
• How many units are “safe”
• Fetal alcohol syndrome

Smoking

• Chemicals in smoke and their risks including carcinogens and nicotine
• Addiction to smoking
• Smoking in pregnancy
• Use of "vapes" and the impact of vaping

The Prodigal Son

• An in depth look at this parable
• Effects of gambling/prostitution/casual sex/drinking on an individual
• Reconciliation and forgiveness

St Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians

• True love
• Types of love
• Abusive relationships
• Selfish behaviours

Use of Technology

• Social media revisited
• Students now old enough to access social media in the eyes of the law
• Being accountable for your online actions including online persona vs real life persona
• Gaming including addictive gaming and “raging out”
• Grooming, including dangers of engaging with online “friends”
• Addictive behaviour and online gambling

Eating disorders

(This work will complement the work done in Science)

Discrimination

• Discriminatory language and behaviour around race, culture and other protected characteristics

Reconciliation in Relationships

• Dealing with arguments/falling out with friends
• Family Life.
• Falling out at home
• Strategies for dealing with problems in relationships

Gender and Sexual Identity

• Dignity of the individual
• Uniqueness of the individual created in the image of God
• Vocabulary relating to gender/sexual identity/sexual orientation
• Different people have different thoughts and feelings
• Dealing with stereotypes
• Protected characteristics

Mental Health

• Looking after yourself
• Resilience and dealing with setbacks/upset/exams

Crime and Consequences

• The law and the legal system
• Taking responsibility for my own actions
• The Equality Act
• Knife crime

The Rough Sleep

• Sleep and its importance
• Sleeping rough, reasons and consequences (possible external speaker delivery)
• The rough sleep event encompassing charitable work and empathy for those living rough on the streets

Reproduction, Sex and Safety

• Biological basis for reproduction including a revision of the reproductive system and the menstrual cycle
• Contraception
• Natural family planning and abstinence
• Artificial methods of contraception including efficacy of different methods
• Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
• Transmission of STIs
• Prevalence of STIs
• Treatments of STIs

Relationships

• Friendships revisited
• Boyfriends/Girlfriends/Partners
• Different types of relationships
• Controlling relationships
• Consent

Families

• Legal marriages
• Roles and responsibilities in the family
• Parents and parenting
• Different families
• Adoption and fostering
• Domestic Abuse
• Forced marriage
• Honour based violence

Mental Health

• Mindfulness
• Daily stress
• Resilience

Technology

• Sharing images and the law, including nudes and semi-nudes
• Malicious Communication
• Digital footprints
• Fake news
• Trustworthiness of sources online and in the real world

Nothing in Life is Free

• County lines and grooming

Sex Education and Relationships

• Body Image
• Catholic Perspectives (NDA half year group assemblies)
• Pornography
• Consent
• Sexual harassment

(There will also be a parents evening with an external speaker to talk to parents about talking to their sons about these issues)

First Aid

Basic treatment of common injuries

Discrimination

• Discriminatory language and behaviour around race, culture and other protected characteristics

Pathogens and Disease

• Bacteria/Viruses/Infections
• Treatment of disease
• Antibiotics
• Vaccination/Immunisation
• Stem Cell donation
• Healthy lifestyle and disease
• Transplant surgery

Relationships and Families

• Catholic Teaching on sexuality and sexual love
• Catholic Marriage and its importance and purpose
• Theology of the body
• All made equal in God’s image
• Consideration of beliefs, teachings and attitudes relating to civil partnership, cohabitation, pre-marital sex, celibacy, contraception, gender and sexual identity, divorce, annulment and remarriage
• Contraception: Arguments for and against in terms of both the mechanics and ethics of different forms of contraception
• Fertility Treatments

Men and Women

Key philosophical and ethical concepts including:

• Equality of men and women
• Me2 Movement
• Consent
• Freedom of choice and restrictions on it

Y10 Retreat Day

• Being Responsible in the World
• Free Trade
• Human Rights
• Basic first aid and defibrillators

Health

• Organ Donation
• Blood donation

Wellbeing

• Perceptions of mental health
• Food and nutrition
• Stress: positives and negatives of stress
• Importance of exercise
• Mindfulness
• Physical activity
• Volunteering in Society
• Radicalisation Assembly

Study Skills

• Study Skills assembly
• Putting into practice
• Sharing practice

Making Good Judgements

• Alcohol
• Risky behaviours
• Consent 
• Drug Awareness
• Addiction and addictive behaviours
• Gambling awareness
• Online gambling

School Nurse and Teenage Cancer Trust

• Self screening
• Health and Cancer Awareness
• Sexually transmitted infections

Discrimination

• Discriminatory language and behaviour around race, culture and other protected characteristics
• Gender and misogyny
• Period poverty

Hormonal Coordination

• Hormonal control of the menstrual cycle
• Contraception including the natural and the artificial control of fertility
• In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF)

Catholic Theology

• Being made in the image of God
• Abortion
• The ethics of abortion and the arguments for and against
• Violence and Conflict
• Peace and peacemaking
• Forgiveness and Reconciliation
• Potential clashes between religious values/ secular values/scientific developments

Making Good Judgements

• Alcohol
• Risky behaviours
• Consent 
• Drug Awareness
• Addiction and addictive behaviours
• Gambling awareness
• Online gambling
• Radicalisation assembly (MB)

Mental Health

• Mental health strategies
• Coping with change
• Managing exam stress

Discrimination

• Discriminatory language and behaviour around race, culture and other protected characteristics