Year 7
Topics covered by tutors:
- How do I learn best?
- Settling in
- Managing time
- Managing feelings
- Bullying
- Beliefs
- Moral Values
- Family
- Growing and changing
- Smoking
- Drug education
- Managing money
- Enterprise
- Safety at home
- Career pathways
All topics are covered briefly with basic facts or beliefs.
Professional Speakers
- Fire safety – hoax calls
- Internet safety – Police general
- Road safety play – crossing the road. Essex County Council
- Safe use of medicines – Lloyds Pharmacy
Year 8
Topics covered by tutors:
- Fitness
- Diet
- Exercise and rest
- Eating disorders
- First aid
- Smoking
- Careers, goals and plans
- Banks, Building Societies and budgeting
- Rights and responsibilities at work
- Planning an enterprise
Topics may take more than one lesson and are in a little more depth.
Professional Speakers
- Fire service role play court proceedings
- Internet safety, social websites
- Knife crime and the law – Police
- Alcohol awareness -factual
- Drug awareness – factual
- NHS – relationship education
Year 9
Topics covered by tutors:
- Personal finance saving and tax
- Debt and VAT
- Consumer awareness
- Sweatshops
- Rights and responsibilities at work
- i-Essex career choices
- Body image
- Self esteem
- Birth control
- Personal safety- risk
- Internet safety
Topics will take several lessons.
Professional Speakers
- Road safety play seatbelts in back of car – Essex County Council
- Drug awareness consequences
- Alcoholic awareness consequences
- Eating disorders and body image – charity ‘BEAT’
Year 10
Topics covered by tutors:
- Binge drinking consequences
- Illegal drug taking consequences
- Economic awareness – tax system and debt – student life
- Mental health issues
- Budgeting
- Health and safety at work – level 1 award
- Citizenship issues
– Holocaust
– Euthanasia
Most topics will take several lessons and are studied in more depth.
Professional Speakers
- Knife crime – Police with local lady who lost her son to knife crime
- Career pathways play – ENACT
- Drug awareness in more details – EYPDAS
Year 11
Topics covered by tutors:
- Eight lessons on career choices and pathways use the i-Essex programme
- Citizenship issues
– poverty and wealth
– government responsibilities across the world – Blood Diamonds - Borrowing and managing debt
- Interviewing questions
- Topics may take several lessons
Professional Speakers
- Sex and relationship education – STIs – NHS
The Department
Head of Subject
Mr Gareth Howard
