Gateway

Year 9 - Term 1

Identity and Ethics in Year 9 provides the next step in the PSHE curriculum. In Year 9, students begin to learn about sex and relationships education.

Identity: Sex and relationships - Consent, Contraception, STIs and Parenthood.

Culture: Christianity

Ethics: Future plans, choices and pathways, managing exam stress.

Year 9 - Term 2

Identity: Physical and mental health including addiction and the brain, why people take illegal drugs.

Culture: Hinduism

Ethics: Criminal Exploitation, the Justice System.

Year 9 - Term 3

Identity: Finances - What is a mortgage? Why do we pay taxes and where does our money go?

Culture: Hinduism

Ethics: Community - British Values and Human Rights, Hate crimes.

Assessment

At KS3, we assess for Oracy skills in ICE and use ICE lessons to encourage students to engage in discussion and debate.

We carry out confidence baseline assessments for Oracy at the start and end of Year 9 in Identity lessons.

We also work on 3 of the 4 Oracy strands throughout Year 9 and assess the students on these at a midpoint in Year 9. The focus for Year 9 in Terms 1 and 2 are Cognitive and Physical Aspects of Oracy. In Term 3 the focus shifts to Social and Emotional and Physical Aspects of Oracy.

We use Chromebooks to record interactions in pairs and encourage self and peer assessment.

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