Department Information
RSE (Relationships and Sex Education) is delivered by form tutors, weekly during form time.
We use the JIGSAW package, which ensures consistency of information and delivery. Jigsaw is an excellent on-line package which updates
regularly in line with any new DFE guidance, this ensures that our students are receiving the very latest information. Jigsaw is also used in a number of our feeder schools, so students already have experience of this type of delivery.
RSE is also supported through year group assemblies and through consultation days where we work with a variety of external (expert) providers:
· Strong Young Minds
· WMRASAC- – West Mercia Rape and Sexual AbuseCentre
· School Nursing Team
· Police
We also use the Women’s Aid – Expect Respect resource to deliver content surrounding ‘Healthy Relationships’.
Aside from the above students who require extra or individual programmes are supported through work in the LINC or within the SEN
department.
Intent
• Relationships Sex Education (RSE) is at the heart of our school values and ethos and runs throughout all that we do.
• Our RSE curriculum aims to enable our children to become healthy, safe, independent, responsible members of society who demonstrate respect and tolerance and who are prepared to face and manage the challenges and opportunities of an ever-changing modern Britain.
We will:
• help pupils to aspire to be the best they can be, to have dreams for their future and know what is required to reach them.
• provide opportunities for our pupils to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a valuable member of an ever-changing diverse society. We will help them to understand and consider many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up in Modern Britain.
• deepen our pupils’ understanding of the fundamental British values of democracy, individual liberty, the rule of law and mutual respect and tolerance
• develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.
• stimulate, challenge and nurture children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural curiosity.
• help pupils to understand the importance of their physical and mental health, understand emotions and feelings and have strategies to help them become resilient and confident so they are ready for the transition to post 16 education.
• help pupils to have a good understanding of themselves, to have empathy, an ability to work with others and to form and maintain positive relationships treating everyone equally with tolerance and respect.
• teach our pupils’ age-appropriate understanding of healthy relationships through appropriate relationship and sex education.
• teach our pupils about personal safety (online and off-line) and we will ensure pupils know where and how to get help if needed.
• encourage all of our pupils to be the best version of themselves that they can be!
Implementation
RSE is taught within the Pastoral Programme set out in tutor time/Consultation Days and is supported and promoted in year group assemblies. Biological aspects of RSE are taught within the science curriculum, and other aspects are included in religious education (RE).
Pupils also receive stand-alone sex education sessions delivered by a trained health professional.
RSE focuses on giving young people the information they need to help them develop healthy, nurturing relationships of all kinds including:
- Families
- Respectful relationships, including friendships
- Online and media
- Being safe
- Intimate and sexual relationships, including sexual health
These areas of learning are taught within the context of family life taking care to ensure that there is no stigmatisation of children based on their home circumstances (families can include single parent families, LGBT parents, families headed by grandparents, adoptive parents, foster parents/carers amongst other structures) along with reflecting sensitively that some children may have a different structure of support around them (for example: looked after children or young carers).
Impact
We are proud of the RSE work that we deliver, the evidence being seen through our well-rounded, confident, tolerant and independent pupils.
• 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 and are armed with skills, knowledge and understanding that they can take forward into adulthood.
• Our pupils leave us prepared for life in an ever-changing modern Britain. They have the tools they need to succeed, keep themselves safe and thrive.
We measure impact by the triangulation of lesson observations, learning walks and pupil voice.