Health
By providing relevant information, exploring personal attitudes and values and supporting healthy decision-making, the middle school health curriculum empowers students to develop the knowledge, skills and values they need to lead healthy, balanced and respectful lives. Rooted in the PSHE framework, our program addresses the physical, emotional, mental and social aspects of adolescent development in a supportive and age-appropriate way.
Through interactive lessons, open dialogue and real-life applications, students explore topics such as:
Mental health and well-being: Understanding emotions, managing stress, developing resilience and seeking help when needed.
Identity and relationships: Building self-awareness, celebrating diversity, fostering empathy, and navigating friendships and peer dynamics.
Physical health and safety: Nutrition, sleep, hygiene, digital well-being, substance education and making informed choices.
Human growth and development: Puberty, reproduction, consent and respectful communication around personal boundaries
Media and digital literacy: Examining the influence of social media, body image, online safety and responsible digital citizenship
Our health teachers create a safe, inclusive and respectful environment in which all students feel seen and heard. We aim to equip young people with the tools they need to make thoughtful decisions, advocate for themselves and others, and contribute positively to their communities.
Our health education is assessed using different methods:
- Baseline assessment, which includes but is not limited to: Questioning, responding to scenarios, discussions, brainstorming, role play, storyboards, quizzes, questionnaires and mindmaps
- End point activities to demonstrate learning, such as: journal prompts, giving advice to characters in specific situations
- End-of-semester assessment
The Department for Education published statutory guidance for health education, relationships education and RSE, which outlines what schools must cover