The aims of Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education at our school are to: 

• Help pupils to develop self-confidence and have positive self- esteem
• Equip pupils with the strategies and skills they need to recognise and form healthy relationships throughout their lives
• Provide a safe environment in which sensitive issues can be discussed in an age-appropriate way 
• Support children to recognise, manage and express a range of feelings and emotions appropriately and develop strategies to support their own mental health
• Develop a caring and considerate attitude towards themselves, others and their environment 
• Develop an understanding of how society works, including rights and responsibilities and a respect for all 
• Develop children's understanding on how to be safe online
• Develop children's understanding on how to live healthy 

Relationships Education:

Relationships Education is designed to help children to have positive and safe relationships with family, friends and online.  All primary schools are required by the government to teach Relationships Education and parents cannot withdraw children from this section of the curriculum.  The areas this section of the curriculum cover are:

• Families and people who care for me
• Caring Friendships
• Respectful Relationships
• Online Relationships
• Being Safe

Health Education:

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.  The areas it will cover are:

• Mental wellbeing
• Internet safety and harms
• Physical health and fitness
• Healthy eating
• Facts and risks associated with drugs, alcohol and tobacco 
• Health and prevention
• Basic first aid
• The changing adolescent body

Relationship and Sex Education (RSE):

Relationship and sex Education is designed to help children to:

• Understand and respect their bodies
•  Develop positive and healthy relationships appropriate to their age and development, valuing others
• Support children to have positive self-esteem and body image
• Empower them to be safe and safeguarded

There is a statutory requirement to teach pupils about relationships and health, including puberty. The Department for Education (DfE) recommends that all primary schools should have a sex education programme tailored to the age and the physical and emotional maturity of the pupils. The DfE recommends that both boys and girls are prepared for the changes that adolescence brings and – drawing on knowledge of the human life cycle set out in the national curriculum for science – how a baby is conceived and born.

Parents will be informed about these lessons and parents have the right to withdraw their child from some or all  sex education. 

At St Faith's, we have been delivering RSE within our Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) curriculum for many years.  We have reviewed our PSHE curriculum to make sure that our lessons meet the requirements that the government has set out for the content of Relationships and Health Education.   At St Faith's this is taught through Jigsaw.

Below is a summary of RSE coverage within the Jigsaw scheme for each year group:
• Foundation Stage - Growing up: how we have changed since we were babies
• Year 1 - Boys’ and girls’ bodies; naming body parts
• Year 2 - Boys’ and girls’ bodies; body parts and respecting privacy (which parts of the body are private and why this is)
• Year 3 - How babies grow and how boys’ and girls’ bodies change as they grow older
• Year 4 - Internal and external reproductive body parts, body changes in girls and menstruation
• Year 5 - Puberty for boys and girls, and conception
• Year 6 - Puberty for boys and girls and understanding conception to birth of a baby