Relationships, Health and Sex Education (RSE)
Many of our adventures across the school include aspects of RSE. These include:
KS1
- How to make friends.
- How to be a good friend and not make people feel lonely.
- What to do if friends make us unhappy.
- What is a caring relationship?
- What does it look like?
- Understand that caring relationships make us feel happy.
- Families are important as they should give us love, safety and stability.
- Understand why bullying is unacceptable.
- Respect other people’s families.
- Knowing and respecting people are different based on their physical appearance and personality.
- Knowing how to show respect for others’ differences.
LKS2
- Knowing people are different based on their physical appearance, personality and beliefs.
- Using manners.
- Being themselves and kind to themselves.
- How to treat people kindly at school and at home with examples.
- Show awareness of it being unacceptable to be unkind (bullying).
- That people sometimes behave differently online.
- That the same principles apply to online relation-ships as to face-to face relationships.
- The rules and principles for keeping safe online.
- How to critically consider their online friendships and awareness of people they have never met.
- How information and data is shared and used online.
- Understand the need for privacy online, keeping data safe however it is not always right to keep secrets if they relate to being safe.
- How to respond safely and appropriately to adults they may encounter online.
UKS2
- Develop deeper understanding of family dynamics and what different families look like across the wider world.
- What families do – care, spend time, protect and keep safe.
- Understand the choice of marriage – what it is and that people choose to marry or choose not to.
- Show awareness of what would make an unhappy or unsafe feeling within a family and what to do about it.
- How do families help each other in a time of difficulty.
- People sometimes behave differently online, including by pretending to be someone they are not.
- That the same principles apply to online relation-ships as to face-to face relationships, including the importance of respect for others online including when we are anonymous.
- The rules and principles for keeping safe online, how to recognise risks, harmful content and contact, and how to report them.
- How to critically consider their online friendships and sources of information including awareness of the risks associated with people they have never met.
- How information and data is shared and used online.
Please download the policy here: Relationships, Health and Sex Education
Department for Education guidance is also available here.