Personal Development ( Statutory RSHE) Consultation

As a part of your child’s educational experience at Chawton CEPrimary School, we aim to promote personal well-being and development through a comprehensive taught programme of Personal Development education that gives children and young people the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills to live healthy, safe, productive and fulfilled lives, both now and in the future.

The Department for Education has made changes to relationships and sex education following nationwide consultation which came into effect from September 2020 and all schools are required to comply with the updated requirements. The statutory guidance can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education

The  guidance focuses on healthy relationships and keeping children safe in the modern world. It also covers a wide range of topics relating to physical and mental health, well-being, safeguarding and healthy relationships.

Learning about the emotional, social and physical aspects of growing up will give children and young people the information, skills and positive values to have safe, fulfilling relationships and help them take responsibility for their own well-being.

Consequently, from September 2020, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE), along with Health Education, will be statutory, and form part of the National Curriculum.

We have reviewed our Personal Development curriculum and policy so we can be sure our  provision is appropriate for our pupils based on their:

• Age
• Physical and emotional maturity
• Religious and cultural backgrounds
• Special educational needs and disabilities

As part of this process, the school has consulted with parents, staff and governors. This helped to inform our school decisions on when and how certain content is covered.

The Consultation Questions were as follows:

1. Would you like support at home, on how to speak to your child about relationship and sex?

2. Are there any changes or additions that you think should be made to the RSE Policy?

3. Are there any changes or additions that you think should be made to the RSE Curriculum Outline?

4. Thinking about relationships and sex education, what do you believe is the most important subject area that should be taught for different age groups/key stages and why?

5. Thinking about relationships and sex education, is there an area that you think should not be taught for different age groups/key stages and why?

This consultation enabled us to reach a general consensus and we made adjustments to our policy and curriculum based on this feedback.

The right to withdraw children from some lessons is explained in the FAQs which is available (see below).

To help you understand the curriculum requirements, please look at the information below which provides more detail.

Please find below:

• A summary of what all pupils are expected to know by the end of primary school,
• A PowerPoint presentation for parents (also saved as a PDF) gives an overview of our Personal Development curriculum  (RSHE) and the rationale behind the curriculum changes
• FAQ sheet
• Our Personal Development Long Term Curriculum Map
• Our  Policy for Personal Development
• DfE guidance that outlines statutory requirements.