Students are taught the following:
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Career Planning
| Topic |
Key Content |
| Exploring the recruitment process |
- Consider what job roles are interesting.
- Research the labour market and education system.
- Recognising the main learning pathways and considering which one students want to follow and how they will access and succeed in it.
- Research the learning and qualification requirements for jobs and careers that they are interested in.
- Research the range of workplaces and what it is like to work in these work places
- Research how recruitment and selection processes work and what students need to do to succeed in them.
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| Managing your own career |
- Recognising the different ways in which people talk about careers and reflecting on its meaning to them.
- How to build confidence and optimism about their future.
- Making plans and developing a career pathway for their future.
- Consider the risks and rewards associated with different pathways and careers.
- To know how to take steps to achieve GCSEs and make a decision about P16 pathways.
- Knowing how to deal with and learn from challenges and setbacks.
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| Creating Opportunities |
- Know how to develop friendships and relationships and reflect on their relationship to a career.
- To know how to take responsibility for making things happen in their career.
- To know how to reflect on and change career ideas and the strategies that are needed to achieve them.
- To know how to speak up for themselves and others.
- To know what role models are and reflect on what leadership is
- Entrepreneurialism and self-employment.
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| Balancing life and work |
- Reflect on the different ways in which people balance their work and life
- Reflect on their physical and mental wellbeing and consider how they can improve these
- Recognise the role that money and finances will play, in the decisions that they make and, in their life and career
- Recognise the role that they play in their family and community and considering how that might shape their career
- Consider how they want to move through different life stages and manage different life roles
- Develop knowledge of rights and responsibilities in the workplace and society
- Identify what they can do, individually and with others, to challenge prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination in learning and workplaces
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| Seeing the big picture |
- Evaluating different media, information sources and viewpoints.
- Explore local and national labour market trends.
- Explore trends in technology and science.
- Explore the relationship between career and the environment.
- Explore the relationship between career, community and society.
- Explore the relationship between career, politics and the economy.
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Relationship, Sex, Health Education (RSHE)
| Topic |
Key Content |
| Positive and negative relationships including the law on consent in all contexts |
- What the positive characteristics in a relationship are
- The benefits of being in a positive relationship on wellbeing.
- The impact of a negative relationship on your wellbeing.
- The different influences that may affect the characteristics in a relationship.
- What consent means and the importance of consent
- The law on consent
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| Being safe in a relationship. (contraception and STIs) |
- What it means to be safe in a relationship
- Different contraception methods
- The dangers of unprotected sex and the risks of having unprotected sex
- The different STIs and their impact on health and key facts about treatment
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| Personal safety in relationships. (consent, violence and exploitation, hate crime, extremism, stalking and radicalisation) |
- The ways in which people can stay safe in a relationship.
- What could happen if personal safety is not considered.
- What sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, hate crime, extremism, stalking and radicalisation are.
- How people become involved in sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, hate crime, extremism, radicalisation, stalking and ways to prevent getting involved
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| Online safety (including sexting, grooming, sexual harassment, Stalking pornography and expectations in a relationship) |
- Importance of online safety and ways to stay safe online
- Why pornography can lead to these types of behaviour.
- Why pornography can alter the expectations of an intimate relationship
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| The dangers of illegal drugs and alcohol |
- The affects that drugs and alcohol have on our bodies
- How drugs and alcohol can harm relationships
- The types of behaviour you may see when under the influence of alcohol or drugs?
- How drugs and alcohol affect personal safety
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