Book 4

Your Life

by John Foster

Published 20 April 2000
"Your Life" offers a way to meet curriculum requirements for personal, social and health education (PSHE) and citizenship at key stage 3 (P7, P1, S2) The course has a progressive structure, covering four key areas - "Understanding Yourself", "Keeping Healthy", "Developing Relationships", and "Developing as a Citizen" - which mirror the arrangement and content of the curriculum. The three student's books each cover a range of PSHE and Citizenship topics. They are designed for use either on a one-per-year basis or selectively to fit in with existing programmes. The three teacher's books contain guidance and suggestions for further activities which extend the student's books. Each book also has 20 copymasters including self-assessment tasks and stimulus material concerning sensitive topics.

Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.

This new Key Stage 4 Co-ordinator's File offers extra support to those responsible for co-ordinating the delivery of Citizenship and PSHE programmes. Devised and written with input from teachers already using Your Life successfully, it provides detailed lesson plans for every spread of Student's Books 4 and 5. These can be adapted easily using the accompanying CD-ROM. In addition, it features practical guidance and over 40 new photocopiable sheets to support assessment, recording and reporting.

It also contains copymasters, designed for use by non-specialists, consisting of twenty photocopiable activities to support and extend each unit in the accompanying Student's Book. They also provide guidance on planning and delivery and include suggestions for further information and resources therefore ensuring everything is covered.


Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stages 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability. Building on the huge success of the second editions, each full-colour Student's book has been completely updated to provide a range of age-appropriate stimulus material and engaging activities designed to develop student's skills, knowledge and understanding in line with the revised Programme of Study and the National Framework for PSHE. Your Life: * offers a progressive, coherent programme for the Citizenship and PSHE throughout secondary school * reduces preparation time with well-researched, balanced coverage of a huge range of topics * is ideal for use on a year by year or selective basis with a clear flexible structure and self-contained units * offers masses of support for teachers including photocopiable activities and assessment material Contents of Your Life 1 1. You and your feelings - anxieties and worries 2. You and your body - growing and changing 3. You and your responsibilities - beliefs, customs and festivals 4.
You and your time - managing your time 5. You and your values - right and wrong 6. You and your family - getting on with others 7. You and your body - smoking 8. You and the law - children's rights 9. You and other people - bullying 10. You and the media - the power of television 11. You and your money - pocket money, budgeting and saving 12. You and the world of work - developing a product 13. You and your body - drugs and drugtaking 14. You and the community - being a good neighbour 15. You and your money - you as a consumer 16. You and your opinions - how to express your ideas 17. You and your body - eating and exercise 18. You as a citizen - British government 19. You and the world of work - attitudes to work 20. You and the community - taking action: raising money for charity 21. You and other people - people with disabilities 22. You and global issues - resources, waste and recycling 23. You and your achievements - reviewing your progress

The Interactive CD-Roms provide a range of high-impact, low preparation lesson starters for each topic throughout Key Stage 3. This network licence allows you to access the resources on more than one computer in your school.

For product information please see Your Life 1 Interactive Starters.


The Your Life Key Stage 4 (14-16) material is in line with QCA guidelines on the Personal Development Curriculum, and also integrates aspects of Careers and Work-Related Learning.

The Teacher’s Resources will:

• Enhance teaching and learning with over 40 photocopiable sheets to support and extend each unit in the accompanying Student's Book

• Support non-specialists as well as experts with material that is easy to use and offers additional guidance on planning and delivery

• Save time and ensure complete delivery of the subject with suggested lesson plans provided


The Your Life Key Stage 4 (14-16) material is in line with QCA guidelines on the Personal Development Curriculum, and also integrates aspects of Careers and Work-Related Learning.

The Teacher’s Resources will:

• Enhance teaching and learning with over 40 photocopiable sheets to support and extend each unit in the accompanying Student's Book

• Support non-specialists as well as experts with material that is easy to use and offers additional guidance on planning and delivery

• Save time and ensure complete delivery of the subject with suggested lesson plans provided


Student Book 1

by John Foster and Simon Foster

Published 18 August 2014

Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stages 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.

Building on the huge success of the second editions, each full-colour Student’s book has been completely updated to provide a range of age-appropriate stimulus material and engaging activities designed to develop student’s skills, knowledge and understanding in line with the revised Programme of Study and the National Framework for PSHE.

Your Life:

  • offers a progressive, coherent programme for the Citizenship and PSHE throughout secondary school
  • reduces preparation time with well-researched, balanced
    coverage of a huge range of topics
  • is ideal for use on a year by year or selective basis with a clear flexible structure and self-contained units
  • offers masses of support for teachers including photocopiable activities and assessment material

Contents of Your Life 1

1. You and your feelings – anxieties and worries
2. You and your body – growing and changing
3. You and your responsibilities – beliefs, customs and festivals
4. You and your time – managing your time
5. You and your values – right and wrong
6. You and your family – getting on with others
7. You and your body – smoking
8. You and the law – children’s rights
9. You and other people – bullying
10. You and the media – the power of television
11. You and your money – pocket money, budgeting and saving
12. You and the world of work – developing a product
13. You and your body – drugs and drugtaking
14. You and the community – being a good neighbour
15. You and your money – you as a consumer
16. You and your opinions – how to express your ideas
17. You and your body – eating and exercise
18. You as a citizen – British government
19. You and the world of work – attitudes to work
20. You and the community – taking action: raising money for charity
21. You and other people – people with disabilities
22. You and global issues – resources, waste and recycling
23. You and your achievements – reviewing your progress


KS3 Co-ordinator’s File

by John Foster

Published 20 February 2005

Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contain extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability

This new Key Stage 3 Co-ordinator's File offers extra support to those responsible for co-ordinating the delivery of Citizenship and PSHE programmes. Devised and written with input from teachers already using Your Life successfully, it provides detailed lesson plans for every spread of Student's Books 1-3. These can be adapted easily using the accompanying CD-ROM. In addition, it features practical guidance and over 40 new photocopiable sheets to support assessment, recording and reporting.

There is extensive guidance on how the scheme can be used to deliver PLTS and SEAL, as well as assessment of KS3 Citizenship.

It also contains copymasters, designed for use by non-specialists, consisting of twenty photocopiable activities to support and extend each unit in the accompanying Student's Book. They also provide guidance on planning and delivery and include suggestions for further information and resources therefore ensuring everything is covered.


The Interactive CD-Roms provide a range of high-impact, low preparation lesson starters for each topic throughout Key Stage 3. This network licence allows you to access the resources on more than one computer in your school.

For product information please see Your Life 3 Interactive Starters.


Student Book 2

by John Foster and Simon Foster

Published 18 August 2014

our Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.

Building on the huge success of the second editions, each full-colour Student’s book has been completely updated to provide a range of age-appropriate stimulus material and engaging activities designed to develop student’s skills, knowledge and understanding in line with the revised Programme of Study and the National Framework for PSHE.

Your Life:

  • offers a progressive, coherent programme for the Citizenship and PSHE throughout secondary school
  • reduces preparation time with well-researched, balanced
    coverage of a huge range of topics
  • is ideal for use on a year by year or selective basis with a clear flexible structure and self-contained units
  • offers masses of support for teachers including photocopiable activities and assessment material

Contents

1. You and your feelings – self esteem
2. You and your body – drugs and drugtaking
3. You and your resonsibilities – other cultures and lifestyles
4. You and your money – gambling
5. You and your values – where do you stand?
6. You and your family – divided families
7. You and your safety – at home and in the street
8. You and the law – the police
9. You and other people – friends and friendships
10. You and the media – the power of advertising
11. You and your time – making the most of your leisure
12. You and the world of work – employment and unemployment
13. You and your body – drinking alcohol
14. You and the community – the school as a community
15. You and your opinions – speaking your mind
16. You and your body – contraception and safer sex
17. You as a citizen – of the European Union
18. You and the world of work – understanding business
19. You and the community – taking action on the local environment
20. You and other people – older people
21. You and global issues – food and water
22. You and your achievements – reviewing your progress


Student Book 3

by John Foster and Simon Foster

Published 18 August 2014

Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.

Building on the huge success of the second editions, each full-colour Student’s book has been completely updated to provide a range of age-appropriate stimulus material and engaging activities designed to develop student’s skills, knowledge and understanding in line with the revised Programme of Study and the National Framework for PSHE.

Your Life:

  • offers a progressive, coherent programme for the Citizenship and PSHE throughout secondary school
  • reduces preparation time with well-researched, balanced
    coverage of a huge range of topics
  • is ideal for use on a year by year or selective basis with a clear flexible structure and self-contained units
  • offers masses of support for teachers including photocopiable activities and assessment material

Contents

1. You and your body – adolescence
2. You and your responsibilities – racism, prejudice and discrimination
3. You and your decisions – how to make decisions
4. You and your family – becoming an adult
5. You and your values – human rights issues
6. You and your money – banking and ways of saving
7. You and your feelings – dealing with loss
8. You and your body – drugs and drugtaking
9. You and the law – crimes and punishments
10. You and other people – being assertive
11. You and the world of work – investigating careers
12. You and the media – the power of the press
13. You and your body – eating disorders
14. You and your choices – for years 10 and 11
15. You and the community – local government
16. You and your opinions – which political party do you support?
17. You and your body – safer sex, STIs and AIDS
18. You and your money – you as a consumer
19. You as a citizen – of the world
20. You and the community – pressure groups and campaigning
21. You and other people – people with mental illnesses
22. You and global issues – poverty
23. You and your achievements – reviewing your progress


Student Book 4

by John Foster, Simon Foster, and Kim Richardson

Published 22 February 2010

Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The fourth editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.

Section 1: Personal wellbeing
1. Developing your identity and image
A sense of identity
Behaviour and self-image

2. Managing your emotions and moods
How do you manage how you feel?
Assertiveness

3. Changing relationships
Friends and family
Exploring love

4. Coping with crises
Separation and divorce
Bereavement
Leaving home

5. Thinking ahead – planning your future
Assessing your skills and investigating careers
Why work experience
Getting started on work experience

Section 2: Social education
6. Britain – a diverse society
How did Britain begin
Is there a national identity and culture in Britain
Is Britain racist?

7. Human rights
What are human rights?
What are responsibilities?

8. Rights and responsibilities
Parental responsibility
What is work?/The law at work
Consumers and traders

9. Challenging offensive behaviour
Understanding prejudice
Fighting discrimination

Section 3: Keeping healthy
10. Healthy eating
Eating and body shape
Healthy eating and junk food

11. Safer sex and contraception
What is the right time to have sex?
Practising safer sex

12. Drinking and smoking
Understanding why people drink and smoke

13. Health matters
Keeping healthy
Healthcare check

Section 4: Citizenship
14. The law of the land
What is the law?/Making the law
Civil law and criminal law

15. Crimes and punishment
Criminal responsibility
The Youth Justice system
Punishment and sentencing

16. It’s your government
The UK Parliament
Government Finance
Voting and elections
Devolution
Democracy

17. It’s your council
Local government

18. Working for change
How can you change things
National Pressure groups
Youth Projects

Section 5: Citizenship – Economic and financial capability
19. Managing your money
Budgeting
How to manage your finances

20. Financing businesses
Money for businesses
Business cost and budgeting

21. Enterprise challenge
What is an enterprise challenge?
Making a business plan

Section 6: Reviewing
22. Reviewing and recording learning


Student Book 5

by John Foster, Simon Foster, and Kim Richardson

Published 20 March 2010

Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The fourth editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.

Section 1 – Personal well-being
Developing your own values
1. Confronting social and moral issues
2. Exploring social and moral issues

Managing your time and studies
3. Coping with revision
4. Coping with exams

Marriage and commitment
5. Attitudes to marriage and commitment
6. Long term relationships

Parenthood and parenting
7. Becoming a parent
8. Parenthood

Thinking ahead
9. Your options at 16
10. Further education and training
11. Applying for jobs

Section 2 – Social education
Human rights
12. Protecting and Enforcing Human Rights
13. Human Rights Abuse
14. Refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants

Global challenges
15. Poverty
16. World health
17. Education

Media matters
18. The news agenda
19. A free media?
20. Privacy versus Public Interest

Challenging offensive behaviour
21. Sexism and sexual harassment
22. Homosexuality and homophobia

Section 3 – Keeping healthy
Managing stress and depression
23. Stress
24. Depression
Safer sex
25. Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
26. HIV and AIDS

Drugs and drug taking
27. Drugs – the risks
28. Drugs – the law

Emergency First Aid
29. First aid – coping with an emergency
30. Shock and resuscitation

Section 4 – Citizenship
The UK’s role in the world
31. The European Union
32. The UK and the EU
33. The UK and NATO
34. The UK and the Commonwealth
35. The United Nations

Global challenges – wars, weapons and terrorism
36. Wars, weapons and arms races
37. What is terrorism?
38. Fighting terrorism

Global challenges
39. Environmental issues
40. Taking action to protect the environment

Working for change
41. Campaigning for change
42. Campaigning for change

Co-operating on a community project
43. Volunteering
44. Getting involved in a community project

Section 5 – Economic and financial capability
Managing your money
45. Borrowing money
46. Work and pay

Economy
47. The UK economy
48. How the UK economy works
49. How the global economy works

Section 6 – Reviewing
50. Reviewing and recording your learning


Copymasters 1

by John Foster

Published 20 December 2004

The Copymasters are designed for use by non-specialists, consisting of twenty photocopiable activities to support and extend each unit in the accompanying Student's Book.

The Copymasters will:

• Enhance teaching and learning with twenty photocopiable activities to support and extend each unit in the accompanying Student's Book

• Support non-specialists as well as experts with material that is easy to use and offers additional guidance on planning and delivery

• Give you confidence in complete delivery with suggestions for further information and resources to ensure everything is covered


Copymasters 2

by John Foster

Published 20 December 2004

The Copymasters are designed for use by non-specialists, consisting of twenty photocopiable activities to support and extend each unit in the accompanying Student's Book.

The Copymasters will:

• Enhance teaching and learning with twenty photocopiable activities to support and extend each unit in the accompanying Student's Book

• Support non-specialists as well as experts with material that is easy to use and offers additional guidance on planning and delivery

• Give you confidence in complete delivery with suggestions for further information and resources to ensure everything is covered


The Interactive CD-Roms provide a range of high-impact, low preparation lesson starters for each topic throughout Key Stage 3. This network licence allows you to access the resources on more than one computer in your school.

For product information please see Your Life 2 Interactive Starters.


our Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability. Building on the huge success of the second editions, each full-colour Student's book has been completely updated to provide a range of age-appropriate stimulus material and engaging activities designed to develop student's skills, knowledge and understanding in line with the revised Programme of Study and the National Framework for PSHE. Your Life: * offers a progressive, coherent programme for the Citizenship and PSHE throughout secondary school * reduces preparation time with well-researched, balanced coverage of a huge range of topics * is ideal for use on a year by year or selective basis with a clear flexible structure and self-contained units * offers masses of support for teachers including photocopiable activities and assessment material Contents 1. You and your feelings - self esteem 2. You and your body - drugs and drugtaking 3. You and your resonsibilities - other cultures and lifestyles 4. You and your money - gambling 5.
You and your values - where do you stand? 6. You and your family - divided families 7. You and your safety - at home and in the street 8. You and the law - the police 9. You and other people - friends and friendships 10. You and the media - the power of advertising 11. You and your time - making the most of your leisure 12. You and the world of work - employment and unemployment 13. You and your body - drinking alcohol 14. You and the community - the school as a community 15. You and your opinions - speaking your mind 16. You and your body - contraception and safer sex 17. You as a citizen - of the European Union 18. You and the world of work - understanding business 19. You and the community - taking action on the local environment 20. You and other people - older people 21. You and global issues - food and water 22. You and your achievements - reviewing your progress

Copymasters 3

by John Foster

Published 20 December 2004

The Copymasters are designed for use by non-specialists, consisting of twenty photocopiable activities to support and extend each unit in the accompanying Student's Book.

The Copymasters will:

• Enhance teaching and learning with twenty photocopiable activities to support and extend each unit in the accompanying Student's Book

• Support non-specialists as well as experts with material that is easy to use and offers additional guidance on planning and delivery

• Give you confidence in complete delivery with suggestions for further information and resources to ensure everything is covered


Teaching Resources 3

by John Foster

Published 20 March 2001
"Your Life" offers a way to meet curriculum requirements for personal, social and health education (PSHE) and citizenship at key stage 3 (P7, P1, S2) The course has a progressive structure, covering four key areas - "Understanding Yourself", "Keeping Healthy", "Developing Relationships", and "Developing as a Citizen" - which mirror the arrangement and content of the curriculum. The three student's books each cover a range of PSHE and Citizenship topics. They are designed for use either on a one-per-year basis or selectively to fit in with existing programmes. The three teacher's books contain guidance and suggestions for further activities which extend the student's books. Each book also has 20 copymasters including self-assessment tasks and stimulus material concerning sensitive topics.

Teaching Resources 1

by John Foster

Published 20 April 2000
"Your Life" offers a way to meet curriculum requirements for personal, social and health education (PSHE) and citizenship at key stage 3 (P7, P1, S2) The course has a progressive structure, covering four key ar eas - "Understanding Yourself", "Keeping Healthy", "Developing Relationships", and "Developing as a Citizen" - which mirror the arrangement and content of the curriculum. The three student's books each cover a range of PSHE and Citizenship topics. They are designed for use either on a one-per-year basis or selectively to fit in with existing programmes. The three teacher's books contain guidance and suggestions for further activities which extend the student's books. Each book also has 20 copymasters including self-assessment tasks and stimulus material concerning sensitive topics.