Y5/6 (A): Safety and the changing body
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Y5/6 (A): Safety and the changing body
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Understand what is safe to share online and what I should do before sending a message.
- Identify possible dangers online, and suggest ways to stay safe, using the web to research relevant information.
- Recognise when someone is choking
- Understand some of the reasons adults decide to drink or not drink alcohol.
- Understand that other people can influence our decisions but we have the right to make our own choices.
- Accurately name all the relevant parts of the body.
- Understand the changes their own gender will go through during puberty.
- List the range of changes they will go through during puberty.
Suggested prior learning
Y5/6 (A): Health and wellbeing
Get startedLessons
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 1: Online friendships
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 2: Staying safe online
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 3: First Aid: Choking
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 4: Alcohol
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 5: Drugs, alcohol and tobacco: Influences
YEAR 5 ONLY (A): Lesson 6: Puberty
YEAR 6 ONLY (A): Lesson 6: Physical and emotional changes of puberty
YEAR 5 ONLY (A): Lesson 7: Menstruation
YEAR 6 ONLY (A): Lesson 7: Conception (Parents have the right to withdraw their child from some of this lesson)
YEAR 5 ONLY (A): Lesson 8: Emotional changes in puberty
YEAR 6 ONLY (A): Lesson 8: Pregnancy and birth (Parents have the right to withdraw their child from this lesson)
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Unit resources

Knowledge organiser: RSE & PSHE – Y5 Safety and the changing body
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit.

Knowledge organiser: RSE & PSHE – Y6 Safety and the changing body
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit.

Vocabulary display – RSE & PSHE Y5: Safety and the changing body
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Year 5: Safety and the changing body unit.

Vocabulary display – RSE & PSHE Y6: Safety and the changing body
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Year 6: Safety and the changing body unit.

RSE and PSHE: Assessment spreadsheet — mixed-age
An assessment spreadsheet to record teacher assessments - aimed at those following our mixed-age curriculum.
Cross-curricular opportunities
English: Spoken language
Pupils should be taught to:
- listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
- participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates
English: Writing – composition
Pupils should be taught to
Write sentences by:
- saying out loud what they are going to write about
- composing a sentence orally before writing it