#iWonder Compliance Document
Relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education compliance document - Secondary Schools
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Relationship Education
Families
Subject | Where is this covered? | |
That there are different types of committed, stable relationships. | Social: Year 8 – Lessons 6 - 7 | y |
How these relationships might contribute to human happiness and their importance for bringing up children. | Social: Year 8 – Lesson 6 | y |
What marriage is, including their legal status e.g., that marriage carries legal rights and protections not available to couples who are cohabiting or who have married, for example, in an unregistered religious ceremony | Social: Year 8 – Lessons 7-9 Social: Year 9 & 10 – Lessons 14 | n |
Why marriage is an important relationship choice for many couples and why it must be freely entered into | Social: Year 7 – Lesson 5 | y |
The characteristics and legal status of other types of long-term relationships. | Social: Year 7 – Lesson 5 | n |
The roles and responsibilities of parents with respect to raising of children, including the characteristics of successful parenting | Social: Year 8 – Lesson 6 | y |
How to: determine whether other children, adults or sources of information are trustworthy: judge when a family, friend, intimate or other relationship is unsafe (and to recognise this in others’ relationships); and, how to seek help or advice, including reporting concerns about others, if needed. | Social: Year 7 – Lesson 5 | y |
Respectful relationships including friendships
Subject | Where is this covered? | |
The characteristics of positive and healthy friendships (in all contexts, including online) including trust, respect, honesty, kindness, generosity, boundaries, privacy, consent and the management of conflict, reconciliation and ending relationships. This includes different (non-sexual) types of relationship. | Social: Year 7 – Lessons 1-2 | y |
Practical steps they can take in a range of different contexts to improve or support respectful relationships. | Social: Year 7 – Lesson 1, Lessons 3- 4 | y |
How stereotypes, in particular stereotypes based on sex, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or disability, can cause damage (e.g., how they might normalise non-consensual behaviour or encourage prejudice). | Social: Year 7 – Lesson 2 | y |
That in school and in wider society they can expect to be treated with respect by others, and that in turn they should show due respect to others, including people in positions of authority and due tolerance of other people’s beliefs. | Social: Year 7 – Lesson 2, Lesson 5 | y |
About different types of bullying (including cyberbullying), the impact of bullying, responsibilities of bystanders to report bullying and how and where to get help | Social: Year 7 – Lessons 3 - 4 | y |
That some types of behaviour within relationships are criminal, including violent behaviour and coercive control. | Social: Year 7 – Lesson 5 | y |
What constitutes sexual harassment and sexual violence and why these are always unacceptable | Social: Year 7 – Lesson 5 | n |
The legal rights and responsibilities regarding equality (particularly with reference to the protected characteristics as defined in the Equality Act 2010) and that everyone is unique and equal | Social: Year 7 – Lesson 2 | y |
Online and media
Subject | Where is this covered? | |
Their rights, responsibilities, and opportunities online, including that the same expectations of behaviour apply in all contexts, including online. about online risks, including that any material someone provides to another has the potential to be shared online and the difficulty of removing potentially compromising material placed online. | Social: Year 7 – Lessons 3-4 | y |
Not to provide material to others that they would not want shared further and not to share personal material which is sent to them. | Social: Year 7 – Lessons 3-4 | y |
What to do and where to get support to report material or manage issues online. | Social: Year 7 – Lessons 3-4 | y |
The impact of viewing harmful content. | Social: Year 7 – Lessons 3-4 | n |
That specifically sexually explicit material e.g., pornography presents a distorted picture of sexual behaviours, can damage the way people see themselves in relation to others and negatively affect how they behave towards sexual partners. | Social: Year 7 – Lessons 3-4 | n |
That sharing and viewing indecent images of children (including those created by children) is a criminal offence which carries severe penalties including jail. | Social: Year 8 – Lesson 10 | y |
How information and data is generated, collected, shared, and used online. | Social: Year 7 – Lessons 3-4 | y |
Being safe
Subject | Where is this covered? | |
The concepts of, and laws relating to, sexual consent, sexual exploitation, abuse, grooming, coercion, harassment, rape, domestic abuse, forced marriage, honour-based violence and FGM, and how these can affect current and future relationships. | Social: Year 7 – Lessons 1 -2, Lesson 5 | y |
How people can actively communicate and recognise consent from others, including sexual consent, and how and when consent can be withdrawn (in all contexts, including online). | Social: Year 8 – Lessons 6 - 10, Lesson 13 | y |
Intimate and sexual relationships including sexual health
Subject | Where is this covered? | |
How to recognise the characteristics and positive aspects of healthy one-to-one intimate relationships, which include mutual respect, consent, loyalty, trust, shared interests and outlook, sex, and friendship. | Social: Year 7 – Lessons 1 - 5 | y |
That all aspects of health can be affected by choices they make in sex and relationships, positively or negatively, e.g., physical, emotional, mental, sexual, and reproductive health and wellbeing. | Social: Year 7 – Lessons 1 - 4 | n |
The facts about reproductive health, including fertility, and the potential impact of lifestyle on fertility for men and women and menopause | Physical: Year 7 – Lesson 1 | n |
That there are a range of strategies for identifying and managing sexual pressure, including understanding peer pressure, resisting pressure, and not pressurising others. | Social: Year 7 – Lesson 1 | y |
That they have a choice to delay sex or to enjoy intimacy without sex. | Social: Year 7 – Lesson 1 | y |
The facts about the full range of contraceptive choices, efficacy, and options available. | Physical: Year 8 – Lesson 12 | n |
The facts around pregnancy including miscarriage. | Physical: Year 7 – Lesson 1 | n |
That there are choices in relation to pregnancy (with medically and legally accurate, impartial information on all options, including keeping the baby, adoption, abortion and where to get further help). | Physical: Year 8 – Lesson 12 | n |
How the different sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDs, are transmitted, how risk can be reduced through safer sex (including through condom use) and the importance of and facts about testing. | Physical: Year 8 – Lesson 12 | n |
About the prevalence of some STIs, the impact they can have on those who contract them and key facts about treatment. | Physical: Year 8 – Lesson 12 | n |
How the use of alcohol and drugs can lead to risky sexual behaviour. | Social: Year 8 – Lessons 11 – 12 | y |
How to get further advice, including how and where to access confidential sexual and reproductive health advice and treatment. | Physical: Year 8 – Lesson 12 | y |
Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing Guidelines
Mental Wellbeing
Subject | Where is this covered? | |
How to talk about their emotions accurately and sensitively, using appropriate vocabulary | Mental: Year 7 – Lesson 2 | y |
That happiness is linked to being connected to others | Mental: Year 7 – Lessons 4- 5 | y |
How to recognise the early signs of mental wellbeing concerns | Mental: Year 7 – Lessons 1 – 3 | n |
Common types of mental ill health (e.g., anxiety and depression). | Mental: Year 7 – Lesson 3 | y |
How to critically evaluate when something they do or are involved in has a positive or negative effect on their own or others’ mental health. | Mental: Year 7 - Lessons 4-5 | y |
The benefits and importance of physical exercise, time outdoors, community participation and voluntary and service-based activities on mental wellbeing and happiness. | Physical: Year 7 – Lessons 3-4 | y |
Internet safety and harms
Subject | Where is this covered? | |
The similarities and differences between the online world and the physical world, including: the impact of unhealthy or obsessive comparison with others online (including through setting unrealistic expectations for body image), how people may curate a specific image of their life online, over-reliance on online relationships including social media, the risks related to online gambling including the accumulation of debt, how advertising and information is targeted at them and how to be a discerning consumer of information online. | Social: Year 7 – Lessons 3-4 | y |
How to identify harmful behaviours online (including bullying, abuse, or harassment) and how to report, or find support, if they have been affected by those behaviours. | Social: Year 7 – Lessons 1- 4 | y |
Physical health and fitness
Subject | Where is this covered? | |
The positive associations between physical activity and | Physical: Year 7 – Lessons 3 - 4 | n |
The characteristics and evidence of what constitutes a | Physical: Year 7 – Lessons 2-4 | y |
About the science relating to blood, organ, and stem cell | Topic not directly covered in the programme, but these topics may be covered in other subjects such as biology |
Healthy Eating
Subject | Where is this covered? | |
How to maintain healthy eating and the links between a | Physical: Year 7 – Lesson 3 | y |
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco
Subject | Where is this covered? | |
The facts about legal and illegal drugs and their | Social: Year 8 – Lessons 11 – 12 | y |
The law relating to the supply and possession of illegal | Social: Year 7 – Lesson 5 | y |
The physical and psychological risks associated with | Physical: Year 8 – Lessons 7 - 8 | y |
The physical and psychological consequences of | Physical: Year 8 – Lessons 7 – 8 | y |
Awareness of the dangers of drugs which are prescribed | Social: Year 8 – Lessons 11 - 12 | y |
The facts about the harms from smoking tobacco | Physical: Year 8 – Lessons 5 – 6 | y |
Health and prevention
Subject | Where is this covered? | |
About personal hygiene, germs including bacteria, viruses, how they are spread, treatment and prevention of infection, and about antibiotics. | Physical: Year 7 – Lesson 2 | n |
About dental health and the benefits of good oral hygiene and dental flossing, including healthy eating and regular check-ups at the dentist. | Physical: Year 7 – Lesson 3 | n |
(Late secondary) The benefits of regular self-examination and screening. | Bespoke Online / Onsite Lessons CAN BE Provided by iSpace Wellbeing | |
The facts and science relating to immunisation and vaccination. | Bespoke Online / Onsite Lessons CAN BE Provided by iSpace Wellbeing | |
The importance of sufficient good quality sleep for good health and how a lack of sleep can affect weight, mood, and ability to learn. | Physical: Year 7 – Lesson 4 | y |
Basic first aid
Subject | Where is this covered? | |
Basic treatment for common injuries. | Bespoke Online / Onsite Lessons CAN BE Provided by iSpace Wellbeing | |
Life-saving skills, including how to administer CPR.15. | Bespoke Online / Onsite Lessons CAN BE Provided by iSpace Wellbeing | |
The purpose of defibrillators and when one might be needed. | Bespoke Online / Onsite Lessons CAN BE Provided by iSpace Wellbeing |
Changing adolescent body
Subject | Where is this covered? | |
Key facts about puberty, the changing adolescent body and menstrual wellbeing | Physical: Year 7 – Lesson 1 | y |
The main changes which take place in males and females, and the implications for emotional and physical health. | Physical: Year 7 – Lesson 1 | y |