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NEW Your Choice
Authors: John Foster and Simon Foster
Address the challenges of being a teenager in the 21st century and implement the new statutory guidance for Health, Relationships and Sex Education.
Your Choice provides a full PSHE course for each year of KS3. The implementation of this flexible resource is at the school’s discretion, based on their assessment of students’ needs and the RSE policy agreed with parents. The books are not labelled by year to give you the flexibility to make choices about what content is most appropriate and most relevant for your cohort at each stage. The Teacher Guide provides further support and guidance. Topics are organised into four strands to offer a coherent, progressive PSHE course for Years 7 to 9. ● Personal wellbeing and mental health – Focus on increasing self-awareness, building confidence and learning to manage emotions. ● Relationships and sex education – Raise awareness of rights and responsibilities in relationships, staying safe and treating others with respect. ● Physical health and wellbeing – Deal with the importance of exercise, sleep, nutrition and leading a healthy lifestyle. ● Social education – Look outwards to the local community and beyond, introducing Citizenship topics.
The Teach Secondary judges' panel said:
User friendly in practice and highly inclusive, it’s also topical in a way that will ensure that teenagers are able to relate its content to their own development and life experiences. Overall, it’s an intensive and comprehensive resource that can be used at all stages of puberty and across different ability groups. Its use of simple language, factual approach and positive tone will enable pupils to develop confidence in learning a very important life skill.
● Age-appropriate information and advice addressing contemporary issues such as exploring your sexuality, grooming and sexting ● Scenarios offering a safe space to explore situations students may face ● Practical techniques for managing time, money, emotions and health ● Activities to help students explore ideas, develop views and make informed decisions about their own lives
The content has been trialled by a team of PSHE teachers and RSE experts.
Opportunities throughout to explore different ideas and develop views

Teacher Guide
Practical tips for dealing with contemporary issues
Samples from Your Choice Student Book 2
● Supports the planning of your school's PSHE provision, including the implementation of the new mandatory curriculum for Health Education and Relationships and Sex Education ● Gives non-specialists the confidence and tools to deliver PSHE effectively and saves preparation time with detailed lessons plans and worksheets for every double-page of the Student Books ● Further sources of information and support are provided for each topic ● Printable PDFs and customisable Word files are available to download online
Price (print book) ebook (1 year licence)
ebook (course licence) Student Book 1 978-0-00-832897-9 £15.99 £5.69 £8.69 Student Book 2 978-0-00-832898-6 £15.99 £5.69 £8.69 Student Book 3 978-0-00-832899-3 £15.99 £5.69 £8.69 Teacher Guide 978-0-00-832900-6 £160.00 Digital download
£1050 +VAT
Authors: Kate Daniels and Simon Foster
Implement the 2020 statutory guidance for Health, Relationships and Sex Education and teach Key Stage 4 PSHE with confidence.
Part of the award-winning Your Choice series, Your Choice for KS4 provides 42 comprehensive and flexible PSHE and RSE lessons for Year 10 and 11 students. Written by experts, the implementation of this flexible resource is at the school’s discretion, and can be adapted into any school timetable. ● Age-appropriate and fully up-to-date content – Implement the new DfE statutory guidance with confidence. ● Easy to use extension material – Develop students’ knowledge with resources suitable for remote education and home learning. ● Detailed guidance and high-quality, adaptable lessons – Support non-specialist teachers and form tutors with core 25-minute lessons and the option to extend to 45 minutes or an hour. ● Flexible ready-made activities, lesson plans and teaching
PowerPoints – Download your accompanying editable files at collins. co.uk.
Learning objectives are clearly listed to support non-specialist teachers and form tutors confidently deliver the new RSHE guidance
Each lesson comes with the option to extend core learning to 45 minutes or an hour
The Teach Secondary judges' panel said:
A comprehensive book that covers units relating to modern life and RSHE modules. Simple, yet effective, it gives teachers an effective way of starting what can often be awkward conversations with pupils.


Editable PowerPoint slides link to the lesson plans, giving teachers clear support to deliver PSHE in their own way Lessons boost pupils' understanding of social issues with age-appropriate and up-to-date content


All resources are fully editable, allowing teachers to adapt learning specifically for their cohort Worksheets can be used in class or adapted for extended learning at home

Your Choice – Complete PSHE Programme for KS4 978-0-00-843401-4 £210.00
Authors: Kate Daniels and Simon Foster
50 inclusive and adjustable KS5 PSHE and RSHE lessons for 16–18-year-olds, written and reviewed by leading experts.
● Age-appropriate and fully up-to-date content builds on the new DfE statutory guidance for 11-16 and is in line with the PSHE Association’s
Programme of Study for KS5 ● Includes new topics and challenges that have been developed with student feedback to ensure it meets their requirements ● Easy to use for any school, sixth form or college with a clear and modular structure that can be slotted into any timeframe ● Equips non-specialist teachers and form tutors with detailed guidance and background resources for information and inspiration ● Develops knowledge and understanding in Years 12 and 13 as it builds on the award-winning
Collins Your Choice resources for KS3 and KS4
● Access, adapt and print all files in an editable format with the download on collins.co.uk
Suggestions to boost teacher knowledge and confidence
9.4 Discrimination and stereotyping focus – Ali’s story
Learning objectives:
• To understand what it is like to live in the UK as a second-generation Arab migrant • To challenge stereotypes and assumptions • To consider how racism affects our identities
Resources:
• PowerPoint 9.4 • Worksheets 9.4a, 9.5b • Videos 9.4.1 (4.30 mins), 9.4.2 (5.30 mins)
Key vocabulary:
racism, discrimination, stereotypes, multilingualism, dehumanise, othering
Teacher resources for information and inspiration:
• Ali’s poetry on YouTube: ‘World Poetry Day 2021 with Manchester City of Literature and Manchester Poetry
Library’, ‘The Stories We Thread’ (at 7.15) and ‘Resistance is my mother tongue’ by Young Identity (at 5.22) • ‘Mother Tongue, Other Tongue’ – multilingual poetry competition that celebrates cultural diversity and the many languages spoken in schools, colleges and in the UK • Stephen Spender Prize – competition for poetry translation into English, with categories and resources for under-18s
Kickstart | 5 mins • Show Slide 1. Introduce the lesson by outlining that students are going to meet someone who is challenging stereotypes (do not say how.) Go to the ‘World Poetry Day film 2021’ on the Manchester City of Literature website or on YouTube. Play Ali’s poem, ‘The Stories We Thread’ (7.15–9.40) to the end.
Don’t tell students anything about Ali at this stage.
Activate | 20 mins
• Show Slide 2, which introduces Ali as a British Arab poet engaged with multilingualism as a means to counter racism. • Watch Video 9.4.1 in which Ali explains why he chose ‘The Stories We Thread’ to introduce conversations on racism, particularly the negative stereotyping of Arabs in the British media, and its effects. At the end he asks a question, which is addressed in the worksheet activity below. (Explain, if necessary, that the word ‘Mullah’ in the poem means a Muslim scholar, teacher or religious leader.) • Hand out copies of Worksheet 9.4a. Go through this with students and then allow them time to complete it independently. Discuss what emerged, particularly with regard to stereotypes. • Go to Slides 3, 4 and 5 to show some facts for Worksheet 9.4a to dispel stereotypes. (See slide notes.)
Ask: ‘How can our lack of knowledge be damaging?’ (Ali suggests in his video that the lack of Arab stories in Britain dehumanises this group, allowing violence against them (through wars) to repeat.) Wrap it up | 5 mins • Revisit everything students have learned today. Ask them what they can take out of this. Ali recommends embracing your own culture – look for films, things written by people with names like yours. For others, to go and read or absorb something from somewhere you haven’t learned about before. • Remind students that any form of racism is a hate crime, and illegal. Flag who they can talk to in college/school, then go to show Slide 6 and signpost where they can go to get help and support online regarding any form of racism and discrimination. Extending | 20 mins • Show Video 9.4.2 in which Ali talks about how racism and othering personally impacted him, and how he overcame it. Ali asks how much more he, and others, could succeed in life if they were not having to navigate racism. Ask the class how this affects us individually. ‘How has being othered affected Ali? If we have the privilege of not being othered, what part can we play?’ • Worksheet 9.4b is a ‘takeaway’ worksheet, which includes the transcript of Ali’s poem ‘In the House of
Colonialism’, referenced in Video 9.4.2 (explain to students that […] indicates that some of the text has been missed out). It includes Ali’s explanation of the poem, which is presented as his own personal journey to resist the impact of racism. Students can watch the poem by searching for ‘Resistance is my mother tongue’ by Young Identity on YouTube. Ali reads the poem between 5.38 and 9.17 minutes.