Relationship, Sex and Health Education (RSHE)

Personal, Social and Health Economics (PSHE)  Education

Curriculum Statement

Intent

At Frizington Community Primary School, we all work together to support our children to grow up healthy, happy and safe - prepared for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of childhood, adolescence and into adult life. Through our teaching of RSE and health education, our objective is to:

• Give pupils the knowledge and develop the self-esteem, confidence and self-awareness to make informed choices and decisions;
• Encourage and support the development of social skills and social awareness;
• Enable pupils to make sense of their own personal and social experiences;
• Promote responsible attitudes towards the maintenance of good physical and mental health, supported by a safe and healthy lifestyle;
• Enable effective interpersonal relationships and develop a caring attitude towards others;
• Encourage a caring attitude towards and responsibility for the environment;
• Help our pupils understand and manage their feelings, build resilience and be independent, curious problem solvers;
• Understand how society works and the laws, rights and responsibilities involved

Implementation

We use the Coram Life Education’s SCARF resources (Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship) and the Kidsafe Mental Health and Safeguarding programme as a basis for our curriculum.   This is organised into an EYFS programme and a two-year rolling programme for Key Stage 1, lower Key Stage 2 and upper Key Stage 2.  Each week, a range of teaching styles are adopted to aid the delivery of sessions which is supplemented by a robust assembly plan that incorporates NSPCC assemblies and the Picture News Assembly Programme. 

E-safety is also a priority, this is taught weekly through our computing sessions, where we use ‘Teach Computing’.  This is reinforced by staff each time the children use computing technology.  In addition, each February we participate in ‘Internet Safety Week’ which includes workshops for parents and regular communications on how to support their children to be safe online.

In all sessions, staff will ensure that appropriate language is used in the classroom and that nobody is made to feel uncomfortable or unable to participate and that the Fundamental British Value of ‘Mutual Respect’ is observed at all times.  There may be occasions where classes will be split into gender groups for certain lessons. RSHE lessons will be rigorously planned, and the content will be both medically and factually correct, treating sex as a normal fact of life. Throughout School, staff and pupils will use the correct terminology when referring to the main external and internal sexual and reproductive parts of the body.  The content of the RSHE curriculum is outlined within the SCARF scheme of work. It is delivered by teaching staff, although non-teaching staff may be involved in a supportive role in some RSHE lessons. Both teaching and non-teaching staff play an important pastoral role by offering support to pupils. 

Impact

By the end of primary school, pupils will have been taught content based on:  Families and People who Care for Them, Caring Friendships, Respectful Relationships, Online Relationships and Being Safe. The positive impact is evident through the well-rounded, confident, tolerant and independent pupils that leave us at the end of Year 6.

The pupils’ attitude, behaviour and demeanour around School, within lessons, at playtimes and out in the community, demonstrates the respect, tolerance and high aspirations that our pupils have of themselves and each other.

Pupils leave us ready for their next step into secondary school and are armed with skills, knowledge and understanding that they can take forward into adulthood. They have the tools they need to succeed, keep themselves safe and thrive.