Relationships and Sex Education Welcome Toilets Mobile phones Tuesday 23rd May 2017

Why do schools teach Relationships and Sex Education? Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) PSHE contains 6 different categories: Drug Education Staying Safe (including online safety) Financial Capability Emotional Health and Wellbeing Healthy Lifestyles Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) Show PSHE, RSE and Drugs guidance Will shortly be a statutory subject

What is RSE? It is about relationships not relationship Stable and loving relationships Respect Love Care Sex Sexuality Sexual health IT IS NOT ABOUT THE PROMOTION OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR SEXUAL ACTIVITY RSE plays a HUGE part in safeguarding pupils RSE must be taught in mainstream, academies and free schools but not private school

Preparation for Secondary School Changes in the body related to puberty, such as periods and voice breaking When these changes are likely to happen and what issues may cause young people anxiety and how they can deal with these How a baby is conceived and born ~ sensitivity being given to the various ways children can be conceived and the wide variety of shapes and types of ‘family’ Important to ensure that these are taught prior to secondary ~ pupils need the information before it happens not during or afterwards!

Which elements form part of the science curriculum in Key Stage 1 ? By the end of Key Stage 1 (Year 2) pupils should be taught: ‘that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults’ Notes and guidance: They should also be introduced to the processes of reproduction and growth in animals. The focus at this stage should be on questions that help pupils to recognise growth; they should not be expected to understand how reproduction occurs. Statutory learning is the science element of the curriculum Pupils have fed back that past RSE was ‘too little, too late and too biological’ RSE taught in separate year groups

All About Us: Living and Growing Wren Class ~ Differences Year 1 ~ How Did I Get Here? Year 2 ~ Growing up Show Dvd and talk about the resource. Show booklet Show ‘Growing Up’

Science elements by the end of Key Stage 2 By the end of KS2 pupils should be taught: describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals describe the changes as humans develop to old age. Notes and Guidance: Pupils should find out about different types of reproduction, including sexual reproduction in animals. They should learn about the changes experienced in puberty.

All About Us: Living and Growing Year 3 ~ Changes Year 4 ~ Boy Talk and Girl Talk Year 5 ~ How Babies Are Made Year 6 ~ How Babies Are Born Show Changes Dvd and activities from the booklet

What do OFSTED and the DfE say? PSHE education is crucial to the development of pupils’ personal, health and economic wellbeing because much of what is covered in PSHE education is particular to that subject and does not appear anywhere else in the curriculum…’ (OFSTED) The DfE recommends that all primary schools should have a relationships and sex education programme tailored to the age, physical and emotional maturity of the children. It should ensure that both boys and girls know about puberty and how a baby is born. NC misses out year groups whereas PSHE allows the RSE education to be an on-going and evolving development Units taught at the end of the academic year so that the teaching team know the most about the pupils and that they are as mature in the year group as possible also allows more curriculum time for questions and discussion

Safeguarding Considerations Healthy and unhealthy relationships Developing confidence to talk about their own bodies Understanding that their body belongs to them Maintaining a healthy body Making informed decisions Quality of relationships and sex education varies greatly amongst families ~ own RSE education? Young people report that they found out too little too late Girls menstruating at a much earlier stage now False/inaccurate information out there ~ provide a place for them to get information that they can rely on

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