Topic  6 Year 9 PSHE & Citizenship

PSHE & Citizenship
Topic  Life - Employability Skills
No of lessons  7
When is it happening  Summer 2
What will students learn

Navigating accounts, savings loans and financial institutions.

What rights do we have as shoppers and consumers?

How can I stay financially savvy and avoid debt?

What can we learn from successful business people and entrepreneurs.

Should we send aid to foreign countries – is aid the answer?

How can extreme views lead to human rights abuses and atrocities?

How do charities like UNICEF help across the world?
Key Knowledge that students should know at the end of 'Topic' This is the knowledge that students will meet for the first time in this topic  In this unit Students will learn about: Dealing with banks and savings, customer and consumer rights. Being financial educated, Aid, extreme human rights violations and abusive.
This is knowledge that students may have met before but will need to deepen their understanding  Most students will have previously studied aspects of Life  - Living in the Wider World with some students potentially having prior learning and aspirations about their futures.
Key Skills that students should be able to demonstrate at the end of 'Topic' This is the skills  that students will meet for the first time in this topic In order to prepare students for life they must be given the opportunity to develop skills and attributes such as resilience, self-esteem, risk-management, teamworking and critical thinking in the context of three core themes: health and wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world (including economic wellbeing and aspects of careers education).Students will acquire the skills to make healthy financial decisions including successful banking and demonstrating consumer rights. Students will also show how an appreciation of our own freedoms will enable them to develop views regarding the dangers of extremism, human rights abuses and the importance of charity work
This is skills that students may have met before but will need to develop 

Developing empathy, compassion and communication

Developing self-confidence and self-worth

Developing assertive communication, risk management

and support-seeking skills

Key vocabulary that students should know and understand

interest rates ISA loans mortgage

Investments  shares consumer rights

returns policy entrepreneur trailblazer

calculated risk charity aid budget

atrocity UNDHR citizenship

The Big Question  How do I navigate bank accounts, savings, loans and financial institutions?

 

 Key questions that students should be able to answer at the end of the 'Topic'

What rights do we have as shoppers and consumers?
How can I stay financially savvy and avoid debt?
What can we learn from successful business people and entrepreneurs?
Should we send Aid to foreign countries - is Aid the answer?
How can extreme views lead to human right abuses and atrocities?
How do charities like UNICEF help across the world?