Y5/6 (B): Safety and the changing body
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Y5/6 (B): Safety and the changing body
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Understand some ways to check that a news story is real.
- Understand how they should behave online and the impact negativity can have.
- Ensure the safety of themselves and others
- Conduct a primary survey and seek medical help.
- 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 (B): Health and wellbeing
Get startedLessons
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 1: Critical digital consumers
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 2: Social media
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 3: First Aid: Bleeding
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 4: First Aid: Basic life support
YEAR 5 ONLY (B): Lesson 5: Puberty
YEAR 6 ONLY (B): Lesson 5: Physical and emotional changes of puberty
YEAR 5 ONLY (B): Lesson 6: Menstruation
YEAR 6 ONLY (B): Lesson 6: Conception (Parents have the right to withdraw their child from some of this lesson)
YEAR 5 ONLY (B): Lesson 7: Emotional changes in puberty
YEAR 6 ONLY (B): Lesson 7: Pregnancy and birth (Parents have the right to withdraw their child from this lesson)
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Unit resources

RSE and PSHE: Assessment spreadsheet — mixed-age
An assessment spreadsheet to record teacher assessments - aimed at those following our mixed-age curriculum.

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.
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