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Life Lessons

What are Life Lessons?

Life Lessons are compulsory timetabled sessions that will take place once a week in Year 12 and once a fortnight in Year 13.

During Life Lessons you will learn valuable life skills, as well as information to support your understanding of the world around you and life beyond SWCHS.

Life Lessons will be delivered by your form tutor (in most cases) and should be treated like any other subject lesson.

What are Life Lectures?

Life Lectures are compulsory timetabled lectures that will take place once a fortnight.

In a similar format to University Lectures, Life Lectures, will be hosted by guest speakers from both external agencies and internal SWCHS staff.

 

See below some of topics that will be covered during these lessons and lectures.

Year 12:

- New environments and meeting new people

- Online relationships and online activity

- Contraception and sexual health including STI’s

- Harmful Sexual Behaviours

- Understanding mental health

- Anxiety, depression, eating disorders, OCD and self-harm

- Suicide awareness and male mental health

- Managing risk including alcohol and drug use

- Drive Safety

- CV Writing and preparing for interviews

- Online digital Resilience

- Employment rights

- Work experience support and professional conduct in the workplace

- How to be critical consumers of information

Year 13:

- Discrimination, prejudice and inclusion

- Respecting faith, forced-marriage and honour-based crimes

- Stalking and Harassment

- Harmful Sexual Behaviours

- Self – harm, suicide awareness and male mental health

- Managing risk including alcohol and drug use

- Drive Safety

- Stress Management

- Healthy Diet and Budgeting

- Money and Budgeting including taxes, National Insurance, borrowing money, Trade Unions

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