In Year 7 Personal Development is taught during tutor time.
| Term | Key Content |
| Autumn | Relationships, sex and health education - Manage the physical and mental changes that are a typical part of growing up, including puberty and menstrual cycle
- The difference between biological sex, gender identity and sexual orientation
- To recognise that sexual attraction and sexuality are diverse
- Marriage is a legal, social and emotional commitment that should be entered into freely and never forced
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| Spring 1 | Drugs, alcohol and associated risks - Evaluate misconceptions, social norms and cultural values relating to drugs, alcohol and tobacco use
- Strategies to manage a range of influences on drug, alcohol and tobacco use, including peers
- The short and long term health risks linked to alcohol, nicotine, legal and illegal substances
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| Spring 2 | Media Literacy and Digital resilience - Strategies to safely manage personal information online and on social media
- The benefits and positive use of the internet and social media
- Understand the way people present themselves online can have a positive and negative effect on them
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| Summer | Relationships - Different types of relationships and factors that affect them
- Indicators of healthy and unhealthy relationships
- Trust in relationships and behaviour that undermines or builds trust
- Media and relationships
- Identifying risk from people online
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Year 7 Knowledge
