Year 6 Safety and the changing body
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Y6 Safety and the changing body
Teacher videos
Review the RSE & PSHE Q&A videos before teaching the unit.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Understand some of the reasons adults decide to drink or not drink alcohol.
- Understand some ways to check that a news story is real.
- Understand how they should behave online and the impact negativity can have.
- Understand of changes that take place during puberty.
- Understand the menstrual cycle and that a male and a female are needed to conceive a baby.
- Understand that a baby changes in the womb and some of the baby’s requirements during the first months of life.
- Recognise when someone is choking; administer first aid to a casualty that is choking; and seek medical help if required for a choking casualty.
- Conduct a primary survey; place a casualty who is unresponsive and breathing normally into the recovery position; and identify when it is necessary for CPR to be given.
Suggested prior learning
Y5 Safety and the changing body
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Alcohol
To begin to understand the risks of alcohol
Lesson 2: Critical digital consumers
To start to become a discerning consumer of information online
Lesson 3: Social media
To understand that online relationships should be treated in the same way as face to face relationships
Lesson 4: Physical and emotional changes of puberty
Lesson 5: Conception (Parents can withdraw their child from part of this lesson)
Lesson 6: Pregnancy and birth (Parents have the right to withdraw their child from this lesson)
To understand the development of the baby during pregnancy
Lesson 7: First Aid: Choking
To understand how to help someone who is choking
Lesson 8: First Aid: Basic life support
To understand how to help someone who is unresponsive
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Resources
Unit resources
RSE & PSHE
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.
RSE & PSHE
Vocabulary display: Year 6: Safety and the changing body
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Year 6: Safety and the changing body unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Science: Animals, including humans
Computing
British values: Mutual respect