Personal, Social & Health education (PSHE) including Relationship and Sex Education (RSE)
At Brooklands Primary School, through our ethos of Kind, Safe and Proud we provide a safe, friendly, stimulating and challenging environment where children’s individuality is celebrated and respected. We strive to ensure that every child has dreams, aspiration and reaches for their goals.
We believe that the relationships we create and maintain throughout our lives are fundamental to our emotional well-being therefore we aim for all children to be able to build positive, successful and healthy relationships in all aspects of their life. By teaching quality PSHE and RSHE at Brooklands, this will help our children grow into active citizens who have a respect for our school and our local, national and global communities. As such, the PSHE and RSHE curriculum promote the teaching of British values and challenges stereotypes, promoting empathy, tolerance and acceptance of diversity in all forms.
The statutory Government guidance that we must follow can be found at:
The aims of PSHE and RSHE at Brooklands are:
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To provide our pupils with the fundamental building blocks and characteristics of positive, healthy relationships.
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To provide our pupils with a framework in which sensitive discussions can take place.
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To provide our pupils with the ability to take turns, and to treat each other with kindness, consideration and respect.
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To provide our pupils with an understanding of the importance of honesty and truthfulness.
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To provide our pupils with an understanding of personal privacy both in person and online.
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To prepare our pupils for both their physical and mental developmental journey as they grow.
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To provide our pupils with an understanding of the importance of good health and hygiene and an understanding of sexual development.
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To provide our pupils, from youngest to oldest, with an understanding of consent and how this is exercised.
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To provide our pupils with an understanding of the differences between appropriate and inappropriate or unsafe contact.
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To equip our pupils with the correct vocabulary to describe themselves and their bodies and to articulate themselves and their feelings clearly.
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To challenge thinking around protected characteristics promoting acceptance of diversity and difference in all its forms.
Relationship Education
Relationships Education will put in place the building blocks needed for positive and safe relationships, including with family, friends and online.
Your child will be taught what a relationship is, what friendship is, what family means and who can support them. In an age-appropriate way, your child’s school will cover how to treat each other with kindness, consideration and respect.
By the end of primary school, pupils will have been taught content about:
- Families and People who Care for me
- Caring Friendships
- Respectful Relationships
- Online Relationships
- Being Safe
Health Education
Health Education aims to give your child the information they need to make good decisions about their own health and wellbeing, to recognise issues in themselves and others, and to seek support as early as possible when issues arise.
By the end of primary school, pupils will have been taught content on:
- Mental Wellbeing
- Internet Safety
- Physical Health and Fitness
- Healthy Eating and Lifestyles
- Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco - Facts and Risks
- Health and Prevention
- Changing Adolescent Body
What are your Parental Rights?
The important lessons you teach your child about healthy relationships, looking after themselves and staying safe, are respected and valued at Stanstead. Teaching at school will complement and reinforce the lessons you teach your child as they grow up.
The Right to Withdraw
You cannot withdraw your child from Relationships Education, as it is a statutory requirement, this ensures that all children receive lessons covering topics such as friendships and how to stay safe.
If you do not want your child to take part in some or all of the lessons on Sex Education, you can ask that they are withdrawn. At primary level, the Headteacher must grant this request.
The science curriculum in all maintained schools also includes content on human development, including reproduction, which there is no right to withdraw from. If you want to know more about what will be taught as part of the RSE, speak to Mr Daniel, or your child's class teacher, and read the documents from Gov.UK:
If you would like to review the resources to be used in a particular year group in more detail, please contact us and we can arrange to discuss these with you.