Curriculum for Life
Aims
Curriculum for Life equips all students with key skills and knowledge that will support them throughout their lives. Students will develop age appropriate understanding relating to three key areas: healthy relationships, health and wellbeing and living in the wider world. The curriculum has been developed in line with the 聽the citizenship national curriculum and the PSHE Association.
The curriculum will support the safeguarding of students. They will explore issues including sexual consent, domestic violence and abuse, and mental health to ensure they can safeguard themselves and protect their emotional wellbeing. This has been developed to an age appropriate manner. Alongside this, focus weeks have been embedded throughout the year to provide opportunities to reflect on contemporary issues that our students may face including county lines, radicalisation, and knife crime. We believe these topics and conversations should not end when students leave the classroom, and we highly recommend that they are discussed at home, therefore, each term your child will be sent home with their C4L work booklet. In the back pages of the work booklet, you’ll find a parent guide; this gives you an overview of key topics and provides you with questions/discussion points. We highly recommend using these to aid conversations about these topics at home.
The Curriculum for Life provision aims to:
- Develop students’ confidence in sharing their own thoughts and opinions
- Develop skills and attributes to keep themselves healthy and safe
- Develop an attitude of a responsible and considerate global citizen
- To build positive, respectful relationships with other people
- To equip students with the skills to support them during life鈥檚 challenges
We are proud to have been awarded the Rainbow Flag Award in 2024. This work builds on and improves our school’s already inclusive environment, for staff and students in the LGBT community.
Overview
Year 7
Term 1 – Welcome to Trinity and Healthy Minds
What make a healthy friendship?
Term 2 – Healthy Relationships
How does puberty impact me?
Term 3聽 – Living in the Wider World
How can I keep myself healthy?
Term 4 – Living in the Wider World
How can I support my local community?
Term 5 – Living in the Wider World
How can I manage money ?
Term 6 – Health and Wellbeing
How do I keep myself safe outside school?
Year 8
Term 1 – Health and Wellbeing
How do I look after my mental wellbeing?
Term 2 – Healthy Relationships
How can my lifestyle choices impact my health?
Term 3 – Living in the Wider World
Be Inspired : What opportunities are out there?
Term 4 – Health and Wellbeing
How do I maintain a healthy and safe relationship?
Term 5 – Healthy Relationships
How can stereotypes lead to the prejudice and discrimination?
Term 6 – Living the Wider World
What are some of the dangers in the online world?
Year 9
Term 1 – Health and Wellbeing
What is Gang Culture?
Term 2 – Healthy Relationships
How do I maintain positive family relationships?
Term 3 into Term 4 – Health and Wellbeing
What is a healthy intimate relationship?
Second half of Term 4 into Term 5 – Living in the Wider World
Careers and employability.
Term 5 – Living in the Wider World
What is democracy?
Term 6 – Living in the Wider World
What systems are in place to keep society fair and just?
Year 10
Term 1聽 (first half) – Health and Wellbeing
How can I look after my own mental health?
Term 2 (and last half of Term 1) – Healthy Relationships
How do I keep myself safe in intimate and online relationships?
Term 3 – Living in the Wider World
How do I make sensible financial decisions?
Term 4 – Health and Wellbeing
How do I keep myself safe around external pressures?
Term 5 – Living in the Wider World
What is the UK’s role in a changing society?
Term 6 – Living in the Wider World
How can I navigate the online world safely?
Year 11
Term 1 – Healthy Relationships
What are my rights in a relationship?
Term 2 – Health and Wellbeing
What are the challenges of having children?
Terms 3 & 4聽 – Healthy Relationships
How can I protect my health?
Parent and Carer Guides
Key Documentation
To view the Relationships, Sex and Health Education Policy, please visit our Policies Page.
