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Relationships and Sex Education
The Department for Education announced changes to relationships and sex education (RSE). These changes will come into effect from September 2020 when all schools will be required to comply with the updated requirements.
Click here to read a summary of what pupils are expected to know by the end of primary school.
In Spring 2022, we undertook a review of the school's policy and curriculum, which included a consultation with parents. Click here to read the updated school policy and curriculum.
Outline of our RSE Provision
No parent is keen for their child to grow up too quickly. However, it cannot be denied that we live in an increasingly sexualised society where TV programmes, magazine articles and advertising increasingly portray and promote sexuality. Sadly, the UK also continues to have the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe.
Following consultation with parents and staff, Governors concluded that the Jigsaw materials, used by many other primary schools, provide the most appropriate scheme for introducing necessary but potentially sensitive issues. The Jigsaw scheme of work for PSHE, which incorporates RSE learning within the scheme of work, is a mindful approach to PSHE and RSE with a comprehensive scheme of learning which includes emotional literacy, social skills and spiritual development alongside Health and Relationships Education.
Discussions in class are based on a series of lessons taken from the Jigsaw curriculum. The content has been created following the DfE RSHE guidance and Jigsaw. The topics covered are as follows:
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Puberty and Human Reproduction in Jigsaw 3- 11 |
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EYFS |
Growing up |
How we have changed since we were babies |
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Year 1 |
My changing body |
Understanding that growing and changing is natural and happen to everybody at different rates |
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Boys’ and girls’ bodies |
Appreciating the parts of the body that make us different and using the correct names for them |
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Year 2 |
The changing me |
Where am I on the journey from young to old, and what changes can I be proud of? |
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Boys and girls |
Differences with boys and girls- how do we feel about them? Which parts of me are private? |
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Year 3 |
Outside body changes |
How our bodies need to change so they can make babies when we grow up – outside changes and how we feel about them |
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Inside body changes |
How our bodies need to change so they can make babies when we grow up – inside changes and how we feel about them (animations used – shorter version female and male reproductive systems) |
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Year 4 |
Having a baby |
The choice to have a baby, the parts of men and women that make babies and – in simple terms – how this happens (animations used – the female reproductive system) |
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Girls and puberty |
How a girl’s boy changes so that she can have baby when she’s and adult- including menstruation (animations used – the female reproductive system) |
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Year 5 |
Puberty for girls |
Physical changes and feelings about them – importance of looking after yourself (animations used – the female reproductive system) |
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Puberty for boys |
Developing understanding of changes for both sexes – reassurance and exploring feelings (animations used – the male reproductive system) |
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Conception |
Understanding the place of sexual intercourse in a relationship and how it can lead to conception and the wonder of a new life (animations used – the female and male reproductive systems) *Non-statutory |
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Year 6 |
Puberty |
Consolidating understanding of physical and emotional changes and how they affect us (animations used – the female and male reproductive systems) |
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Girl talk/boy talk |
A chance to ask questions and reflect (single sex) (animations used – the female and male reproductive systems) |
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Conception to birth |
The story of pregnancy and birth (animations used – the female and male reproductive systems) *Non-statutory |
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