PSHCE (with HRSE)

PSHE (Personal, Social, Health, and Economic education) helps our pupils to stay safe, healthy and prepare for life’s opportunities. PSHE incorporates health and wellbeing, relationships and sex education, and topics related to the wider world such as finance and careers.

Each year group have one 1 hour lesson of PSHE every week.

The school has a statutory responsibility making it compulsory by law to provide your child with Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) from September 2020.

RSE lessons include teaching about: healthy relationships, including friendships and intimate relationships, families, growing and changing including puberty, personal hygiene, changing feelings, becoming more independent, keeping safe and consent, digital lives, social responsibility, developing self-esteem and confidence. Pupils also have opportunities to ask questions that help prepare them for relationships of all kinds in the modern world.

All PSHE teaching takes place in a safe learning environment and is underpinned by our school’s Catholic ethos and values. The RSE element is rooted in the Catholic Education Service’s model curriculum, placing the formation of the individual at its core and recognising parents as the prime educators of their children.

We’d like to invite you to follow this link https://www.tentenresources.co.uk/parent-portal/ to find out more about what your child will learn, view the materials and resources being used in lessons and discover how you can best support your child to discuss these topics at home – parental password and user name can be obtained from Mr S Atkin.

Guest speakers from the NHS, fire brigade, police, SmokeFree Lancashire, and Positive Action in the Community (PAC) will also deliver sessions throughout the year to different year groups on topics such as fire safety, water safety, knife crime, on-line safety, domestic abuse, consent, and sexual health.

Parents do not have the right to withdraw their child from Relationships Education or Health Education.

Parents may request that their child is withdrawn from some or all of the sex education elements of RSE, except for any content that is part of the National Curriculum for science (for example, puberty or human reproduction).

Where a request is made, the headteacher will discuss this with parents and, where appropriate, with the pupil. From three terms before a young person turns 16, they may choose to receive sex education even if their parent previously requested withdrawal.

Further information is set out in the Department for Education’s statutory Relationships, Sex and Health Education guidance.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68b8499e11b4ded2da19fd92/Relationships_education__relationships_and_sex_education_and_health_education_-_statutory_guidance.pdf

Parents / carers may contact Mr S Atkin to discuss withdrawal from elements of sex education.

atkin.s@fishermore.lancs.sch.uk