Relationships and Sex Education is taught in discreet PDC lessons, through additional events organised by the PDC department, through assemblies and Thought for the Day. It also permeates the whole of the school community: we foster positive relationships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and beyond.
The School is currently working towards the BERT (Building Effective Relationships Together) Bronze Award.
Curriculum Intent
What is statutory?
The Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education Regulations 2019 require all schools from September 2020 to deliver Relationships and Sex Education in secondary schools. Health education is compulsory.
What are our aims?
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Our aim is for pupils to learn to respect the views, needs and rights of others, including people of different ages, genders and cultures to themselves.
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We wish to develop and improve the health and emotional wellbeing of all of our pupils.
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We want to give our students the skills necessary to keep them safe, including keeping them safe in an ever-changing virtual world.
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Our curriculum aims to develop the knowledge, understanding, language and skills and strategies in our students needed to make positive life choices, both now and in the future.
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Through our PDC programme, the SMSC which is present across the curriculum, our assembly programme and pastoral support programme we aim to achieve high standards of personal behaviour, including a caring attitude towards other people and an appreciation of the diversity and richness of other cultures.
