Relationships & Sexual Education (RSE) at Greenlands Primary
RSE Curriculum
The teaching of PSHE at Greenlands Primary School is underpinned by the the Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE), and Health Education guidance 2019 and we include statutory Relationships and Health Education within our whole-school PSHE Programme.
Direct teaching of Relationships Education and Sex Education is within Terms 2 and 6, through the topics of Families & Relationships and Safety and the Changing Body, respectively.
Families and Relationships
In Term 2, the Families and Relationships topic focuses on a range of topics such as families, friendships, respectful relationships and change and loss.
Throughout the term children will learn strategies to deal with conflict, their own strengths and self-esteem. Children will have the opportunity to identify different roles and responsibilities in different families, looking at a variety of stereotypes. They learn about managing their friendships positively and strategies for when things go wrong. All of the lessons will be delivered in an age-appropriate way, including through books and stories, to meet the children's needs.
Safety and the Changing Body
In Term 6, the Changing Body part of this topic focusses on the naming of body parts and how children change as they grow older, from young to old, throughout their teenage years.
Throughout Term 6, each class will look at moving ahead, to a new year group, new teachers and, for Year 6, the transition to secondary school. Life cycles and how babies grow and change into adults are treated sensitively and are taught to meet the children's needs at an age appropriate level. In Years 4, 5 and 6 this includes puberty. This topic links with the Year 5 Science curriculum when teaching children about life cycles, babies and puberty.
In Year 6, we teach a sex education unit of work focussed on how a baby is conceived and develops. The content of this will be shared with parents at the beginning of term 6 and you will have the option to withdraw your child from this aspect of RSE.
Below please see the progression in Changing Body topic:
RSE Policy
Statutory Guidance
Please find below government guidance
