A complete six-lesson Catholic Secondary RSHE mental-health unit — statutory-compliant and faithful to Catholic teaching — taught with safe messaging throughout. Understanding mental health and stigma, stress/anxiety/low mood, self-harm and difficult feelings (handled sensitively, with no methods or detail — the focus is compassion, hope and help), grief and bereavement, and building wellbeing and hope. Every lesson names its DfE strand and its Catholic source and signposts help.

Includes six ready-to-teach editable decks, a medium-term plan, a knowledge organiser, detailed lesson plans and a parent information sheet.

Diocesan/RE-adviser and safeguarding sign-off is advised before teaching; deliver with your safeguarding lead aware and current helplines inserted. Health Education — not sex education.

IMPORTANT — SCHOOL REVIEW REQUIRED BEFORE TEACHING. This scheme is a teaching resource, not an approval. The units covering sex education and life issues should be reviewed and approved through your school’s own governance process and, where your school requires it, by your diocese, before delivery. The unit addressing mental health requires safeguarding sign-off from your designated safeguarding lead.

Schools remain responsible for their own compliance, policy and safeguarding decisions. Where a lesson signposts support, your school should source and verify its own current contact details — national services and helpline numbers change, and your school is best placed to confirm them and to add local services and named staff. Support organisations are indicated by name only; the resource deliberately does not supply telephone numbers.

Aligned to the statutory Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education guidance for England (Department for Education, 2019; © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0; source: ), and written within the Catholic understanding of the human person.

This resource is an independent interpretation of the statutory requirements. It does not reproduce the statutory guidance beyond fair citation, and it is not an official, diocesan-approved or Catholic Education Service publication.

Scripture and the Catechism are cited by reference only — no Bible text is reproduced. Catechism and Second Vatican Council material is © Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

Not affiliated with, endorsed by or produced by the DfE, the Catholic Education Service, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales or any diocese.

All lesson content, slides, artwork and wording are original to Verity Education. © Verity Education 2026. Licensed for use within the purchasing school.