Relationships and Sex Education Welcome Toilets Mobile phones Thursday 16th May 2019

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 come from 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’

Which elements come from the Science Curriculum in Key Stage 2? By the end of KS2 pupils should be taught to: 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

Changes to PSHE ~ how will it impact primary schools? PSHE will become statutory from September 2020 Relationships Education will be statutory for Primary Schools and Sex Education for Secondary Schools There are no changes to the Science Curriculum therefore the curriculum coverage will remain the same for KS1 and KS2 Many schools have been covering PSHE for over a decade The changes will mean schools review their curriculum but for majority of good or outstanding schools there will be very little change Main review will be for schools to consider if it is age appropriate for pupils in their school to understand that families can consist of different units i.e. LGBT

Our plan for RSE for Year 3 and Year 4 At the start of the session Mr Warren will talk through a code of conduct with the pupils. Mr Warren will send out the plan for the sessions so you can see what is being taught and when. There will be 3-4 sessions for RSE. If pupils ask questions which require a more advanced answer than what we had planned then we tell them that ‘you will learn about that in Year …’ If you aren’t sure how to answer something always come and ask us ~ don’t be embarrassed! Remember every family is different and it is important that family share what they feel comfortable doing but that will also help the child understand how they are changing and be informed to make decisions.

 Any Questions? Thank you! Please do not hesitate to speak to a member of staff with any questions or concerns Thank you! 