Grade by Grade
New Brunswick · Grade 8

Personal Wellness

Includes health, sexual health education and career education.

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

AWellness

Food security and culture; substances and brain health; legal implications; digital profiles, luring and misinformation

BMental Fitness

Resilience; self-care; negative thought cycles; peer influence; credit, saving and investing

CHuman Growth and Development

Uneven adolescent development; values about sexual activity; consent laws in New Brunswick; media and gender stereotypes

DRelationships

Power and control; ending relationships; respectful disagreement; social justice and intervening against discrimination

ECareer Connected Learning

Post-secondary options; career conversations; transition to high school