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Secondary School
Relationships
Healthy friendships are positive and welcoming towards others and do not make others feel lonely or excluded.
How to recognise and talk about their emotions, including having a varied vocabulary of words to use when talking about their own and others’ feelings.
Health and Safety
How to judge whether what they are feeling and how they are behaving is appropriate and proportionate.
Know about personal hygiene and germs including bacteria, viruses, how they are spread and treated and the importance of handwashing.
Wider World
Recognise the internet can be a negative place where online bullying can take place.
Know where and how to report concerns and get support with issues online.
Wider World
How to critically consider their online friendships and sources of information including awareness of the risks associated with people they have never met.
How information and data is shared and used online.
Relationships
Most friendships have ups and downs and that these can often be worked through so that the friendship is repaired or even strengthened.
How to recognise who to trust and who not to trust, how to judge when a friendship is making them feel unhappy or uncomfortable
Consent
Know what sorts of boundaries are appropriate in friendships with peers and others (including in a digital context).
Health and Safety
Key facts about puberty and the changing adolescent body, particularly from age 9 through to age 11, including physical and emotional changes.
Know the importance of sufficient good quality sleep for good health and that a lack of sleep can affect weight, mood and ability to learn.
Health and Safety
The facts and science relating to allergies, immunisation and vaccination.
Relationships
What a stereotype is and how stereotypes can be unfair, negative or destructive.
Know the importance of self-respect and how this links to their own happiness.
Wider World
How to be a discerning consumer of information online including understanding that information, including that from search engines, is ranked, selected and targeted
Consent
Pupils should know that ‘agreement’ under coercion — that is brought about by intimidation, physical threats or emotional threats — is not consent.
Our Safeguarding Learning Journey
Consent
Know about privacy; including that it is not always right to keep secrets if they relate to being safe.
Know that each person’s body belongs to them and the differences between appropriate and inappropriate or unsafe physical, and other, contact.
Wider World
Know the rules and principles for keeping safe online.
Know how to make an efficient call to the emergency services.
Relationships
The practical steps they can take in a range of different contexts to improve or support respectful relationships.
How to manage conflict and how to seek help or advice from others, if needed.
Consent
In healthy relationships, both parties seek each other’s consent and know their decision to give or not give consent will be respected. If a person decides not to give consent, or to withdraw consent, they are never to blame.
Health and Safety
Be informed about menstrual wellbeing including the key facts about the menstrual cycle.
Know about legal and illegal harmful substances and associated risks, including smoking, alcohol use and drug-taking.
Wider World
Know the risks of excessive time spent on electronic devices and the impact of positive and negative content online on their own and others’ mental and physical wellbeing.
How to consider the effect of their online actions on others and know how to recognise and display respectful behaviour online
Relationships
Stable, caring relationships, which may be of different types, are at the heart of happy families.
Consent
Know that each person’s body belongs to them, and the differences between appropriate and inappropriate or unsafe physical, and other, contact.
Health and Safety
That there is a normal range of emotions (e.g. happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, nervousness).
Self-care techniques, including the importance of rest, time spent with friends and family and the benefits of hobbies and interests.
Wider World
People sometimes behave differently online, including by pretending to be someone they are not.
Why social media, some computer games and online gaming, are age restricted.
EYFS
Exploring different relationships - between friends, school staff and parents.
My body belongs to me and I have a say in who touches it
How to use equipment safely
I know to tell someone if I see or hear something online that I don’t like
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Consent
How to respond safely and appropriately to adults they may encounter whom they do not know.
How to recognise and report feelings of being unsafe or feeling bad about any adult.
Relationships
How to recognise if family relationships are making them feel unhappy or unsafe, and how to seek help or advice from others if needed.
Health and Safety
It is common for people to experience mental ill health. For many people who do, the problems can be resolved if the right support is made available, especially if accessed early enough.