Dear parents,
As part of the statutory National Curriculum, your child/children will be taught all aspects of the new Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) Curriculum. This includes developing healthy relationships, staying safe, knowing how to look after their mental health and wellbeing, understanding the natural changes to bodies and naming of body parts. We believe that this biological approach needs to be balanced with an emphasis on relationships, feelings, and values. We are particularly concerned to ensure our children know how to keep themselves safe and healthy and develop confidence and self-esteem to ensure they are not vulnerable or exploited in any way.
This year we are using new materials as part of our personal and social health education curriculum. We are delivering Shropshire Respect Yourself: Sex Education programme. This programme has been nationally recognised, is informed by good practice guidance and has received the quality Kitemark from the Personal, Social Health Education Association (PSHE), It includes the transition programme for Year 6, which ensures continuity and age-appropriate progression with the Shropshire secondary programme.
As part of our planning for the delivery of this programme we have ensured that there is consistency with our school’s ethos and related policies, such as safeguarding, equalities and bullying.
The programme will be delivered by classroom teachers. There will be opportunities for children to work in mixed and single gender groups and exercises will be adapted to take into account different levels of maturity and ability. We encourage pupils to ask questions, seek further information and complete activities at home. We see this work as a partnership between school and home.
Please feel free to contact your class teacher or myself if you have any questions about the content we will be covering. Depending on the amount of queries we get, we may also be able to offer an information sharing session for parents if we feel this is necessary.
The topics we will be covering in each year as well as the vocabulary we will be learning is outlined in the document below.
Many thanks,
Miss Roberts