PSHE & RSE
PSHE and RSE at Sharley Park Community Primary School
At Sharley Park Community Primary School we encourage all children to achieve their full potential in all aspects of the curriculum. Our vision is to prepare and motivate our children for a rapidly changing world by instilling in them critical thinking skills, a global perspective and core values of respect, resilience and compassion. By understanding the nature and importance of relationships, how they are formed and maintained, we hope to prepare our children for the challenges of tomorrow.
We aim to promote personal wellbeing, and development through a taught scheme of Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) education that gives children and young people the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills to live healthy, safe, productive and fulfilled lives, both now and in the future.
The aims of relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) at our school are to:
- Provide a framework in which sensitive discussions can take place
- Prepare pupils for puberty, and give them an understanding of sexual development and the importance of health and hygiene
- Help pupils develop feelings of self-respect, confidence and empathy
- Help pupils to understand what forms a positive and healthy relationship/friendship
- Create a positive culture around issues of sexuality and relationships
- Teach pupils the correct, anatomical vocabulary to describe themselves and their bodies at all times.
Policy
PSHE/RSE policy uploaded here (via a link?)
Scheme of work
As a school, we use the Derbyshire County Council scheme of work PSHE Matters, alongside Clued up to Growing up. This scheme has been updated and is in line with the new DFE requirements for teaching PSHE and RSE which came into effect in April 2021.
PSHE matters is a spiral curriculum. This means that your child will revisit key themes several times throughout their learning journey with us. For example, ‘Being responsible’ is taught in year 1, year 3 and year 5. Each year they will revisit prior learning and build upon this. We hope that by delivering the curriculum in this way will allow children to gain and in depth understanding of each aspect covered and prepare them for life outside of Sharley Park Community Primary School.
Please see the spiral curriculum below.
|
Year Group |
Term 1 |
Term 2 |
Term 3 |
Term 4 |
Term 5 |
Term 6 |
|
Y1 |
Being Healthy |
Difference and Diversity |
Exploring Emotions |
Relationships |
Being Responsible |
Bullying Matters |
|
Y2 |
Drug Education |
Being Me |
Changes |
Growing up- Including lessons from clued up to growing up |
Money Matters |
Being Safe |
|
Y3 |
Being Healthy |
Difference and Diversity |
Exploring Emotions |
Relationships |
Being Responsible |
Bullying Matters |
|
Y4 |
Drug Education |
Being Me |
Changes |
Being safe |
Money Matters |
Growing up- Including lessons from Clued up to growing up |
|
Y5 |
Being Healthy |
Difference and Diversity |
Exploring Emotions |
Relationships- Including lessons from clued up to growing up |
Being Responsible |
Bullying Matters |
|
Y6 |
Drug Education |
Being Me |
Changes |
Being Safe |
Money Matters |
Growing up- Including lessons from Clued up to growing up |
Relationships and Sex Education at Sharley Park Community Primary School
The DFE statutory guidance for RSHE can be found below
The guidance focusses on healthy relationships and keeping children safe in the modern world. Children will learn about the emotional, social and physical aspects of growing up and it will provide them with the information, skills and positive values to have safe, fulfilling relationships and help them to take responsibility for their own well-being.
From September 2020, relationships along with health education will be statutory and form part of the national curriculum. However, the DFE continue to recommend that all primary schools should have a sex education programme tailored to the age and the physical and emotional maturity of the pupils.
Parents do have the right to withdraw their child from sex education but not from statutory Relationships Education, Health Education or what is taught in the science national curriculum.
Why is RSE important?
Why is RSE important?
- Our ability to make, maintain and perhaps even end healthy, positive and productive relationships is part of what makes us human and is fundamental to a caring and supportive society.
- Our relationships come in a wide variety of forms: colleagues, family, casual acquaintances, close friendships and eventually sexual.
- Our children learn by looking at and listening to all the messaged they experience.
- In our society, children are confronted with sexual images in advertising and stories and message about celebrity lifestyles and relationships in the media. Pornography is readily available on the internet.
- Using their natural curiosity combined with wonderful ‘child logic’, our young children often put together their own complex ideas about where babies come from. This understanding can be a mixture of correct, almost correct and completely incorrect ideas.
- Many children will also enter puberty whilst still at primary school. This can be a confusing, embarrassing and even distressing time for some.
Overview of RSE at Sharley Park Community Primary School
Please see below a brief summary of our RSHE curriculum coverage.
Guidance for RSE
Parents FAQ about RSE: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education-faqs
Useful websites:
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/support-for-parents/pants-underwear-rule/
https://www.ceop.police.uk/Safety-Centre/
https://www.ceopeducation.co.uk/
https://www.educateagainsthate.com/
https://www.outspokeneducation.com/