The Department for Education (DFE) has published statutory guidance for school for “Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education”.
You can view the full guidance here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education
This is now mandatory for schools to comply with.
The statutory framework for Primary school is divided into two main sections: Health Education, and Relationships Education and has the following sections:
Health Education
- Families and people who care for me
- Caring friendships
- Online relationships
- Being safe
Relationships Education
- Mental wellbeing
- Internet safety and harms
- Physical health and fitness
- Healthy eating
- Drugs, alcohol and tobacco
- Health and prevention
- Basic first aid
- Changing adolescent body
At Colebourne, we deliver the statutory requirements for Relationships and Health Education through our Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) curriculum, which aims is to equip children with the skills and understanding to become healthy, secure, independent and responsible members of society. We prepare our pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences in later life and encourage them to use developing social skills and knowledge to identify risk to make safe decisions for them.
PSHE has an integral part to play in building pupils’ mental wellbeing and their understanding of themselves as part of a family, community and wider society. As our pupils grow, they will understand their rights as global citizens and the responsibility that this brings.
Parents do not have a legal right to withdraw their child(ren) from teaching covered in the statutory guidance.
There are weekly PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) lessons in each year group for approximately 30min per week. These sessions cover all the statutory requirements for Health and Relationships education. Many aspects will also be covered through general day to day interactions, assemblies, stories and through visits and visitors.
At Colebourne, we mainly use a published scheme called Jigsaw for our PSHE curriculum. This has been adapted following consultation with parent, staff and governors. Details of the consultation that took place can be found here:– The consultation web-page
There are 6 units each year for each year group
- Being me in My World
- Celebrating Difference
- Dreams and Goals
- Healthy Me
- Relationships
- Changing me
We also use some external units instead of a few units which can be seen below.
You can also download the PSHS/RSHE Policy here: PSHE – RSHE – Policy
Puberty and Reproduction
In addition to our PSHE work, we also teach elements of puberty and reproduction through our science curriculum. The planning and resources for our Year 5 unit of puberty and the Year 6 unit on human reproduction has been updated (July 2021) to take account of some of the new relationships and health education requirements and to ensure it is suitable for our children and community.
The units and resources are always shared with parents before the units take place. This is usually through a meeting in school or online.
Below, you can see previous letter for Year 5 and Year 6 Parents
Copies of our Puberty and Reproduction resources are accessible via a secure parents area – please click here. Please note you will need the password to view these pages as they contain the teaching materials. Please contact the main office for the password.