Health & Wellbeing
PSHE · Pioneers 11–15 · Year 7
Transition, friendships and mental health
What helps when everything changes?
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What you will learn
- Recognise signs of stress and use evidence-based coping strategies
- Understand friendship changes, peer influence and bullying responses
- Know where to get help in school and online and how to help a friend
- Practise assertive communication
Helpful to know first: Feelings vocabulary
Your next step: DiscoverGo
Discover
Think first: What helps when everything changes? Say or jot one idea before you read on.
Learn — core route
- Stress bucket model
- Friendship scenarios
- Help-map
Lessons in this subject: Learn Topics · PSHE
Practise — check a common mix-up
Asking for help is weak.
Real friends never disagree.
Apply / Create — My Wellbeing Toolkit
Create a personal toolkit: 3 strategies with evidence, a help-map, and an assertive script for a friendship scenario; reflect after two weeks.
Evidence type: reflection · accessible alternative always allowed (speak it, draw it, or show an adult).
How it is judged (rubric)
- Beginning: Lists strategies
- Developing: Toolkit made
- Secure: Evidence-based toolkit, help-map, script, reflection
- Extending: Supports a peer and evaluates impact
Explain — say what you did
Review later
We'll offer a quick memory check in 7, 21 and 45 days. Mark this done and your Today page will remind you gently.
For grown-ups · framework mappings
- aligned to UK PSHE · KS3 Health & wellbeing; Relationships
- aligned to SEL frameworks · CASEL: self-management
Status: Live · reviewed
What's next?