PSHE Tasks, Week Commencing 11th November

Key Stage 3 PSHE Topic - Health and Wellbeing: Keeping Healthy – Vaccines, Boosters And Immunisation

Objectives

Understand the importance of taking increased responsibility for own physical health – vaccinations – protection for individuals and society.

 

Information

Vaccination/immunisation/inoculations are terms used when vaccines are injected by syringe, shots, liquids, pills, or nasal sprays into your body to teach your body's immune system to recognise and defend against harmful germs. For example, there are vaccines to protect against diseases caused by viruses, such as flu and COVID-19. Other vaccines protect against bacterial infections such as pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis.  Babies and children in the Western world are given vaccines against fatal illnesses such as diphtheria, Hepatitis B, Hib (haemophilius influenza), polio, tetanus, whooping cough, measles, mumps and rubella.  Young teenagers (12-13yrs) should have the HPV vaccine which protects against diseases such as genital warts and cervical cancer caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV).  Vulnerable and older people are protected against COVID, pneumonia, flu and shingles.  There are also some areas of the world that you need additional vaccines for if travelling to. You may, for example, need vaccines against malaria and yellow fever, which are caused from mosquito and tic bites or vaccines against dysentery, cholera and typhoid which are caused by contaminated water and prevalent after natural disasters.

Boosters provide an additional dose of a vaccine that are given to people who have already received an initial vaccine series against an infectious disease.  These are given throughout childhood and teen years.

Follow the link below to read about the range of vaccines that are given throughout a life-time and the conditions they can prevent.

https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/nhs-vaccinations-and-when-to-have-them/

 

Tasks

1. Create a timeline from birth to old age putting names of vaccines and approximate ages they are given.

2. Produce a poster to inform people your age about the vaccines and boosters they should be having and why.

3. Research and write definitions for the terms epidemic and pandemics.  Give examples of epidemics and pandemics that have occurred both in the past and recent years.

4. Explain the risks to individuals and society of epidemics and pandemics of flu, Covid, measles, mumps, thyphoid.

5. Research statistics and endeavours to conqueror small pox, cholera and the plague.

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Key Stage 4 PSHE Topic – Health, Wellbeing

Objectives

Know the health services available to people; strategies to become a confident user of the NHS and other health services; to overcome potential concerns or barriers to seeking help.

Identify, evaluate and independently access reliable sources of information, advice and support for all aspects of physical and mental health.

 

Information

Everyone, at some time in their life will need to use health and wellbeing services or make life-style choices and decisions. For example, regarding relationships; when to have an intimate relationship; contraception; sexual health; mental health; sleep, diet; exercise; smoking; drugs; medication; treatment to have children; IVF; a termination etc.  It is important to make informed choices so that you will know what will happen and what the benefits and risks are when you make the choices. As you get older, you will have increasing responsibility for looking after your own health and wellbeing and knowing where to seek information, advice and support when needed.

Information, advice and support can be sought from formal sources such as NHS Services, GPS, clinics, registered practitioners, school health and pastoral teams and websites such as NHS, Healthy Minds, Family Planning Association, Brook, Frank.  This information should be reliable, from trained professionals, informed, unbiased, confidential and not based around selling a product or service.

Sometimes people seek informal support from peers, family, friends, adverts, social media, TV programmes, books, ‘blogs’, unregulated websites’,  Facebook, forums and chat groups.  This information, however, may not be reliable, professional, informed, confidential or unbiased.  The information, advice and support might therefore include biased and judgemental prejudice, misinformation, wrong information, exaggeration or trying to get you to buy a product or service.

 

Task

Use the attached sheet to research local health services near you and what support they can give.

How to Access Services

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Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 Careers

Objectives

Realise the benefits of setting ambitious goals and being open to opportunities in all aspects of life.

 

Information

Your aspirational goals are your best hopes for the future that you may need to work or strive for but are also realistic and achievable. 

 

Task

1. Set 3 academic and 3 emotional/social goals for the final part of 2024. Try to add actions you would need to achieve them.

2. Identify a range of big, general life-style goals for when aged 20, 30, 50 and 70. Draw a timeline with these recorded on.

3. Find images and average costs of buying bikes, cars, renting/buying a home, holidays, living costs, saving for a pension.

4. Use the MY Careers Website to find examples of jobs earning salaries of £20,000 a year, £30,000 a year and £40,000 a year.