Relationships, Sex and Health Education
Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) at Causeway Green Primary
‘We want all children to grow up healthy, happy, safe, and able to manage the challenges and opportunities of modern Britain. All primary age children will be taught Relationships and Health Education.’
Department for Education, 2020
At Causeway Green Primary School, we also share the same vision as the one stated by the Department of Education above. That is why we have invested time consulting, resourcing and developing our RSHE curriculum. We follow a trusted scheme of work called Jigsaw. This is a progressive scheme of work that has been created by a team of teachers and health professionals that assures all of the statutory requirements of the RSHE curriculum are taught to your children. We supplement our curriculum with visits from our School Nurse Health Team, Safety Seymour (carbon monoxide safety), Road Safety, Online Safety presentations, Rail Safety, Health Weeks, WOW (walk once a week), PSCO presentations, Anti-Bullying events and much more, ensuring that our children get the life skills and education that they need to navigate the world around them.
What is Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE, and how does it work?
- Jigsaw is a whole-school approach and embodies a positive philosophy and creative teaching and learning activities to nurture children’s development as compassionate and well-rounded human beings, as well as building their capacity to learn.
- Jigsaw is a comprehensive and completely original PSHE Education programme (lesson plans and teaching resources) for the whole primary school from ages 3-11 (12 in Scotland). Written by teachers and grounded in sound psychology, it also includes all the statutory requirements for Relationships and Health Education, and Sex Education is also included in the Changing Me Puzzle (unit).’
- We have provided further information for our parents below so that you can read what the statutory requirements are for the curriculum and how we teach them to all of the children within our school.
We offer opportunities during the school year to share and discuss the lessons your child shall be taking part in and the resources used to support them. If you would like to discuss any of the curriculum further then opportunities to meet with your child’s class teacher, the PSHE lead and the Headteacher can be arranged. Our PSHE lead is Miss K Blackwell.
We hope you find this information useful and that it reassures you as to why it is important to teach children about RSHE at Causeway Green Primary School.