Student Book One

Your Choice Book 1 covers the 2019 Health, Relationships and Sex Education curriculum, offering advice and practical techniques for managing students’ time, money, emotions and health.

4 Star Winner in Health & Wellbeing in the Teach Secondary Awards 2020

Topics are organised into four strands to offer a coherent, progressive PSHE course for Years 7 to 9. Each unit can be taught on its own, at any point during Key Stage 3 that the school thinks is appropriate.

In Student Book 1:

· Personal wellbeing and mental health units focus on increasing self-awareness, building confidence and learning to manage feelings.
· Relationships and sex education units make students aware of their rights and responsibilities in relationships, to help them stay safe and treat others with respect.
· Physical health and wellbeing units deal with the importance of exercise, sleep, nutrition and leading a healthy lifestyle.
· Social education units look outwards to the local community and beyond.

The content has been reviewed and trialled by a team of PSHE teachers and RSE experts. The series is accompanied by a detailed teacher guide.

Reviews

Your Choice creates a safe and healthy context for exploring, sharing and researching the situations students might find themselves in. It helps them identify, assess and manage
positive and negative risks, supports enquiring minds, and intelligently connects values, beliefs, decisions and actions.

✓ A highly accomplished series for smart decision-making
✓ Packed with sophisticated questions and active teaching and learning techniques
✓ Helps students differentiate between ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ situations
✓ Encourages students to stop and think and make responsible choices

John Dabell, Teach Secondary review

About the author

John Foster is the author of numerous PSHE textbooks, including the Your Life and Your Choice series. His books for teachers include Jumpstart! PSHE and Jumpstart! Study Skills. He is also a well-known children's poet and anthologist having written 12 books of his own poetry. His anthologies have sold over 2 million copies and include the bestselling Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar.

Kim Richardson has been a writer and editor of educational materials for over twenty-five years, specialising in PSHE and English for schools. He has also been an accredited psychotherapist.

Simon Foster is a head of economics at an FE College in Hampshire, where he has also taught politics. He is one of the UK's leading PSHE and citizenship authors, with 24 books and numerous teacher resources published. A former councillor and political campaigner, he has worked on elections in the UK, Croatia, Canada and the USA. He is based in Southampton where he lives with his wife and two step-children.