My Family Coach in KS3 & KS4 (ENGLAND)

How does My Family Coach complement statutory Relationships & Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education lessons in school?

My Family Coach is designed around the needs of families and complements many areas of statutory guidance and wider PSHE teaching in school.
There are several ways My Family Coach can be used to support your lessons:

    • When you are teaching a RHE/ PSHE topic, share the relevant My Family Coach resources with your parents and carers.
    • My Family Coach resources can be added to a PSHE curriculum map.
    • If a family is experiencing a particular need, share relevant My Family Coach resources with them.
    • My Family Coach resources can be shared as part of a response to specific issues your school is facing.
 
The grids below set out the statutory Relationships and Health Education guidance for Primary Schools with appropriate My Family Coach resources. You will need to sign into the My Family Coach website to view them.

Relationship Education KS3 & KS4

Theme: Families

By the end of secondary school, pupils should know:

that there are different types of committed, stable relationships.

Theme: Respectful Relationships, Including Friendships

By the end of secondary school, pupils should know:

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.

Theme: Online & Media

By the end of secondary school, pupils should know:

their rights, responsibilities and opportunities online, including that the same expectations of behaviour apply in all contexts, including online.

Theme: Being Safe

By the end of secondary school, pupils should know:

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.

Theme: Intimate & Sexual Relationships, including Sexual Health

By the end of secondary school, pupils should know:

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.

Health Education KS3 & KS4

Theme: Mental Wellbeing

By the end of secondary school, pupils should know:

how to talk about their emotions accurately and sensitively, using appropriate vocabulary.

Theme: Internet Safety & Harms

By the end of secondary school, pupils should know:

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.

Theme: Healthy Eating

By the end of secondary school, pupils should know:

how to maintain healthy eating and the links between a poor diet and health risks, including tooth decay and cancer.

Theme: Drugs, Alcohol & Tobacco

By the end of secondary school, pupils should know:

the facts about legal and illegal drugs and their associated risks, including the link between drug use, and the associated risks, including the link to serious mental health conditions.

Theme: Health & Prevention

By the end of secondary school, pupils should know:

about personal hygiene, germs including bacteria, viruses, how they are spread, treatment and prevention of infection, and about antibiotics.

Theme: Basic First Aid

By the end of secondary school, pupils should know:

basic treatment for common injuries

Theme: Changing Adolescent Body

By the end of secondary school, pupils should know:

key facts about puberty, the changing adolescent body and menstrual wellbeing.