RSHE
RSHE – Relationship, Sex and Health Education
at Sacred Heart Primary School
RSHE will be taught through PSHE and Religious Education. However, it will be delivered through many other subject areas such as PE, Science, Geography, and History.
From September 2020, all primary-age children will be taught Relationships and Health Education. The DFE guidance and FAQ’s can be found below
These subjects are designed to equip your child with knowledge to make informed decisions about their wellbeing, health and relationships as well as preparing them for a successful adult life.
Our children will develop their understanding of loving and personal relationships through ‘A Journey in Love’. This programme has benefitted our children by preparing them for positive relationships with themselves and others. Please see the link below for the booklet outlining their learning units in each year group.
Our PSHE programme is embedded within our curriculum and forms part of our planned themes for collective worship, including annual events such as ‘Anti-Bullying Week’ (Friendship Week), Mental Health Week, and ‘Behaviour Awareness Week’ with the NSPCC. We pride ourselves on the holistic nature of PSHE at Sacred Heart through day-to-day school life and focused visits to ‘Crucial Crew’ which is a variety of workshops including; RNLI, Community Nurses for healthy eating, British Transport Police, lifeguards, Bully Busters, road safety, railway police and Young Carers. We also have a Careers month bringing in specialists and experiences from all different industries from Global retailers, University students, to Sports Therapists and Dragon Boat Racers.
Relationships Education will put in place the building blocks needed for positive and safe relationships, including with family, friends and online. The children will be taught what a relationship is, what friendship is, what family means and who can support them. In an age-appropriate way, our learning and teaching will cover how to treat each other with kindness, consideration and respect. It will be taught across the curriculum from Early Years to Year 6 in an age appropriate way. We will deliver this teaching through the prism of Catholic RSHE. The framework of our programme is taken from the Model Catholic RSE Programme by the Catholic Education Service, which has been highlighted by the Department of Education as a work of good practice.
Our curriculum has been written with due regard to the DFE statutory requirements Click here for the DFE parent guidance
to ensure the children are supported to be healthy, safe and prepared for modern life. At the heart of all our learning is our faith. In order to fulfil the whole range of learning intentions and build on each year groups learning, our parents, children, staff and governors have agreed on The Journey In Love programme of study for RSHE supplemented by Ten:Ten Life to the Full.
A Journey in Love
A Journey In Love is a resources created by Sister Jude Groden of BRES. It is the recommended programme of study for Catholic schools for Sex and Relationship Education, and has been written as a progressive scheme of work that supports the Religious Education, PSHE and Science curricula taught within the school.
As children progress through the school, they discover more and more about themselves and the wider world. The thirst for learning new things is fostered by the school, who attempt to create a safe and stimulating environment for learning and supporting all children in their development.
A Journey in Love supports children in growing and developing healthy and holistically towards an understanding of their gender and its implications for successful relationships, for this is happen children must be at ease with themselves and grow in self knowledge.
Throughout ‘A Journey In Love’ an aspect of the mystery of love is focussed upon in each group, children and young people are encouraged to marvel at the wonder and beauty of God’s creative love. This is reflected in each stage of a person’s growth in the Primary Years through a series of suggested, progressive and developmental tasks, activities and reflections which focus on physical, social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual development.
As with all aspects of learning, children are naturally curious and many will have questions related to their lessons. Opportunities to discuss questions form part of the lessons and again these are treated with care and understanding.
A Journey In Love, highlights the importance of parental input, you may withdraw your children from Sex Education at any time if you wish to do so, however, all children must participate in Relationship and Health Education.
Ten: Ten – Life to the Full
Ten: Ten – Life to the Full
The Life to the Full programme is based on ‘A Model Catholic RSE Curriculum’ by the Catholic Education Service which was highlighted as a work of good practice by the Department of Education. Therefore, we have confidence that the programme, alongside Journey In Love will be fit for purpose in supporting the growth and development of your child. Life to the Full is much more than a series of lessons. It is an entire platform of creative resources that will engage, inform and inspire our children and, indeed, you as parents. This includes interactive video content, story-based activities, employing a wide range of teaching tools, original worship music and an accompanying programme of classroom prayers.
Please do not hesitate to contact Mrs J McCallum or Miss Jordan for further information or see the following links: