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In September 2020, the Department of Education stated that all primary age children will be taught Relationships Education and Health Education. These subjects are specifically 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.

Relationships Education is designed to help children to have positive and safe relationships with family, friends and online.
Health Education will help children to make good decisions about their health and wellbeing and enable them to know how to seek support if any health issues arise for themselves or others

Sex education is not compulsory, but puberty, naming external body parts, human development from birth to old age and reproduction in animals must be taught to all students because they are included in the Science National Curriculum.

The Department for Education recommends that ‘all primary schools should have a Sex Education programme tailored to the age and physical and emotional maturity of the pupils. It should prepare boys and girls for the ‘changes that adolescence brings.’

At our school, we teach our Relationships education, RSE and Health education as part of a wider PSHE curriculum curated by LifeWise. The LifeWise Programme fulfils all statutory requirements laid out by the Department for Education for Relationships education and Health education. LifeWise also provides a broader PSHE curriculum to further develop our students’ life skills. The LifeWise PSHE scheme uses the term RSHE for statutory content.

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