Wellbeing/RSE
Our Wellbeing and RSE lessons are taught to all students on a weekly basis by a small group of dedicated teachers. The lessons enable students to discuss and voice their opinions on a range of different topics covered throughout the curriculum in a safe and relaxed environment.
Wellbeing/RSE lessons cover a wide range of topics at a depth appropriate to each child’s age, including emotional health, spiritual health, physical health, healthy living and preparation for the future. Examples of topics covered include: careers, friendships, bullying, resilience, financial literacy, online safety, dealing with stress, sexual health, and relationships and belonging. The schemes of work are inclusive but adaptable to be up-to-date with local or worldwide issues.
During Form times and assemblies, topics are also discussed and awareness of certain topics improved for example; Black History Month, Anti-bullying Week and Mental Health Awareness Week.
To enhance our Wellbeing/RSE curriculum, we invite external guest speakers to deliver specialist sessions on a range of topics. Some examples include: Accent catering, Road Safety, Open Clinic, drugs, SARAC - healthy relationships.
The policy for Wellbeing and RSE is sent out to all parents at the start of the year along with rights for withdrawal from sex education and this can also be found under the policy section on the website.
If you have any questions regarding the curriculum then please contact Mrs Bullmore v.bullmore@lichfieldcathedralschool.com
EYFS curriculum
In Early Years Foundation Stage, Wellbeing/RSE is taught throughout the Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED) strand of the EYFS curriculum, but also augmented with bespoke lessons at different points for the year, such as transition in the Trinity term. These lessons are usually supported by a core text such as ‘Ruby’s Worries’ and ‘The Colour Monster’.
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Relationships |
Health and Wellbeing |
Living in the Wider World |
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Families and friendships |
Safe relationships |
Respecting ourselves and others |
Belonging |
Media literacy and digital resilience |
Money and work |
Physical health and mental wellbeing |
Growing and changing |
Keeping safe |
Key Stage 1 curriculum
The Wellbeing/RSE programme in Years 1-4 utilises resources from the PSHE Association, with an overarching question each half term. The programme is broken down into three main strands: Living in the Wider World, Relationships, and Health and Wellbeing. These are visited across the year and link to work across year groups.
Year groups have weekly lessons to explore the half term’s big question, but also incorporate discussion points brought up in other subject areas. Additional events and themes, such as Children in Need, One Kind Word Week, Comic Relief, Black History Month and Pride, are explored during these sessions and special assemblies.
A range of guest speakers come into school to speak to pupils about important topics such as nutrition, fire safety, careers, and health and wellbeing.
| Michaelmas 1 | Michaelmas 2 | Lent 1 | Lent 2 | Trinity 1 | Trinity 2 | |
| Year 1 | What is the same and different about us? | Who is special to us? | What helps us stay healthy? | What can we do with money? | Who helps to keep us safe? | How can we look after each other and the world? |
| Year 2 | What makes a good friend? | What is bullying? | What jobs do people do? | What helps us stay safe? | What helps us grow and stay healthy? | How do we recognise our feelings? |
Key Stage 2 curriculum
| Michaelmas 1 | Michaelmas 2 | Lent 1 | Lent 2 | Trinity 1 | Trinity 2 | |
| Year 3 |
How can we be a good friend? |
What keeps us safe? |
What are families like? |
What makes a community |
Why should we eat well and look after our teeth? |
Why should we keep active and sleep well? |
| Year 4 |
What strengths, skills and interests do we have? |
How do we treat each other with respect? |
How can we manage our feelings? |
How can our choices make a difference to others and the environment? |
How can we manage risk in different places? |
Bespoke transition unit: Year 4 to Broadhurst |
| Year 5 |
Be Yourself Individuality; Recognising difference; developing positive self image; managing feelings. |
Relationships Different types of relationship; those who are important to us; the importance of kindness and respect in relationships. |
Safety First Taking responsibility for own safety; making decisions and standing up to peer pressure; assessing risk & how to identify emergencies. |
Health & Wellbeing - Positive Thinking Understanding positive & negative emotions; mindfulness & making good choices; the importance of mental health. |
Wider World - Diverse Britain The different faiths & ethnicities that make up Britain; community; law & consequences. |
One World Understanding that we all have to live as global citizens with a responsibility to help the environment & sustain its natural resources. |
| Year 6 |
Digital Wellbeing E-Safety; safe use of technology; online relationships; benefits & risks of social media; fake news. |
Relationships Learning to work as a team, disagreeing respectfully and communicating effectively; understanding compromise. |
Health & Wellbeing How we change both physically & emotionally as we grow up; the types of relationships that people have; body image & stereotypes. |
Health & Wellbeing - It's my body How to take care of our bodies; consent and autonomy; body image; harmful substances. |
Aiming High Achievements, aspirations & opportunities; challenges & how to overcome obstacles; stereotypes within work. |
Money Matters How money is used in the wider world; the value of products; budgeting & careful spending. |
Secondary curriculum
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Michaelmas 1 |
Michaelmas 2 |
Lent 1 |
Lent 2 |
Trinity 1 |
Trinity 2 |
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| Year 7 | Managing change & transition Thriving in secondary school, goal setting, managing emotions, positive habits, manage stress |
Friendship & bullying Friendship, empathy, bullying, bystanders, challenges, coercive relations |
Families & change relationships Understanding change, roles in families, managing change, loss, grief, family courts |
Puberty Puberty and emotional change, menstrual wellbeing, disclosures, keeping safe |
Influences on relationships Healthy and unhealthy relationships, managing conflict, consent, decide what to watch, relationships |
Financial decisions Spending decisions, budgeting, getting a job, impact of inflation, budgeting |
| Year 8 |
Belonging & community Identity and community, bias and stereotypes, discriminations, values, diversity |
Healthy & unhealthy relationships Health relations, online relationships, sexual harassment, nudes, consent, gender violence |
Personal safety & risk Firework, staying sage on the road, water safety, classroom RevivR, drugs |
Health & wellbeing Healthy choices, dental health, staying active, sleeping habits, climate change and wellbeing, different views |
Managing money How to open a bank account, bank statement, saving, bank cards, managing debt |
Online world Click and pay – phones and risks, gaming, social media, algorithms, influences |
| Year 9 |
Mental health & wellbeing Managing emotions, distractions, healthy and unhealthy coping strategies |
Careers & future choices Exploring career interests, work patterns and places, managing pressures, KS4 options, online reputation |
Intimate sexual relationships Avoid assumptions, freedom and consent, relationship values, contraception sexual health |
Managing risk in relation to the law Organised crime, cybercrime, keeping safe |
Drug education Vaping, law and managing risk, alcohol and drugs, managing influences |
Navigating the online world Nudes, deepfakes – motivation and consequences, exploring harms and misconceptions, misogyny |
| Year 10 |
Navigating the online world AI, chatbots, deepfakes, social attitudes |
Exploring consent & recognising abuse Role of intimacy, pornography, pressure, persuasions, coercion, FGM, forced marriage |
Independence, health & wellbeing Study skills, exam stress, informed choices, being active, wellbeing |
Managing influence Money, gambling, misogyny |
Friendship, diversity & challenging extremism Recognising and challenging bullying, unhealthy attitudes, diversity, extremism
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Study, work & careers Career preferences, navigating careers, mapping a career path, good impressions, financial literacy
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| Year 11 |
Life-long wellbeing Mental health and wellbeing, managing distractions, thinking habits, stress, loss, grief, importance of sleep |
Drugs & personal safety Assessing risk, managing influence, gangs, risks and consequences |
Safe relationships & sexual health Healthy and unhealthy relationships, power and control, setting boundaries, contraception, sexual health |
Families, fertility & pregnancy Long term commitments, legal status of marriage, parenting, fertility and pregnancy |
Online financial harms Managing risks, cryptocurrencies, gambling, financial exploitation, money laundering |
Study leave & public examinations |
| Year 12 |
Healthy lifestyles & mental health Work life balance, eating on a budget, mental health, anxiety and depression |
Careers Options post-18, job searching, interviewing |
Media literacy Online reputation, networking, digital resilience & media literacy |
RSE Relationship types & values, consent globally, sexual norms & expectations |
Bullying & abuse Emotional abuse, coercion & controlling behaviour, harassment, stalking & discrimination |
Wider world Alcohol, drugs, assertiveness, drink driving, spiking, organised gangs & gambling
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| Year 13 |
Relationships Building relationships, online dating & personal safety, toxic relationships, power differences |
Careers Resilience, interviews, employment rules, professional conduct, bullying & harassment |
Finance Budgeting at university, exploring a pay slip, trading & investment, mortgages & renting property |
RSE Parenthood, fertility, motherhood & employment, revisit consent, boundaries & contraception |
Study leave & public examinations |
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