First year SPHE – Agreed content and outline yearly plan (2012-2013)

Belonging and Integrating:                         Coping with change

                                                                                    Joining a new group

                                                                                    Appreciating difference

                                                                                    Bulling is everyone’s business

Self-management: A sense of purpose:         Organising myself

                                                                                    Organising my work at home and in school

                                                                                    Appreciating differences

                                                                                    Balance in my life

Communication Skills:                                         Express yourself

                                                                                    Learning to listen

                                                                                    Passive, assertive and aggressive communication

Physical health:                                                       Body care

                                                                                    Healthy eating

                                                                                    Passive, assertive and aggressive communication

Friendship:                                                             Making new friends

                                                                                    A good friend

Relationships and Sexuality:                             Me as unique and different

                                                                                    Friendship

                                                                                    Changes at adolescence

                                                                                    The Reproductive system

                                                                                    Images of male and female

Emotional health:                                                  Recognising feelings

                                                                                    Respecting my feelings and the feelings of others

Influences and decisions:                                   My heroes

Substance use:                                                     Why use drugs?

                                                                                    Alcohol: The facts

                                                                                    Smoking and its effects

                                                                                    Smoking, why and why not?

Personal safety:                                                      Looking after myself

Additional lessons included in the Lifeskills series:

Healthy living:                                                     Setting class rules for SPHE

                                                                                    Exploring ‘health’ as a concept

                                                                                    The importance of study

                                                                                    Taking tests