Health & Living Life – KS5 Personal Development / PSHE Unit (Ages 16–18)
Support your Sixth Form students as they transition into independent adulthood with this engaging and thoughtful KS5 Health & Life Skills Unit. This 7-lesson unit helps learners explore personal wellbeing, safety, lifestyle choices, and health-related social issues that affect young adults today.
📦 What’s Included:
• 7 x Fully Editable Lesson PowerPoints
• 7 x Homework Ideas
• 7 x Confidence Checker End-of-Lesson Assessments
• 1 x Team-Based Healthy Eating Quiz
💬 Lesson Topics:
- Talking About Taboos: Breastfeeding & Period Pain
- The Realities of Parenting: Choices, Dilemmas & Responsibilities
- Road Safety for New Drivers
- Mental Health Stigma: Breaking the Silence
- How to Eat Healthy on a Budget
- Personal Safety When Traveling Abroad
- Healthy Lifestyle Choices & Cancer Prevention
🎯 Each Lesson Includes:
• Fully editable PowerPoint with rich, high-quality visuals
• Clear Learning Objectives and Success Criteria
• Confidence Checker and Mini Assessment Opportunities
• Video clips, discussion questions, and real-world tasks
• Links to websites and resources for deeper exploration
• Teacher guidance notes and extension activities
• Fully mapped to PSHE Association guidance and DfE personal development framework
✅ Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
• Discuss social taboos and challenge stigmas around health and the body
• Explore the demands and challenges of modern parenting
• Learn critical road safety skills as young drivers and passengers
• Analyze the impact of mental health stigma on individuals and society
• Understand how to maintain a healthy diet on a limited budget
• Develop personal safety strategies when traveling abroad
• Explore how lifestyle choices relate to long-term health, including cancer prevention
🧠Key Vocabulary Includes:
Taboo, stigma, parenting, responsibility, contraception, decision-making
Mental health, awareness, advocacy, wellbeing
Road safety, hazard perception, risk, peer pressure
Budgeting, nutrition, portion control, food labels
Vaccination, screening, prevention, health literacy
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