Padstow School

PSHE/RSE

PSHE
 
At Padstow School, personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education is an embedded part of our broad and balanced curriculum. Pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development is at the heart of our school ethos. British Values (BV) are promoted through the overarching aims and objectives of PSHE by supporting our children to become healthy and responsible members of society, as well as preparing them for life and work in modern Britain.
 
 
PSHE education enables our children to become healthy, independent and responsible members of a society. It aims to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that is a part of growing up. We provide our children with opportunities to learn about rights and responsibilities and to appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. Our children are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.
 
The curriculum demonstrates appropriate subject knowledge, skills and understanding to fulfil the duties of the Relationships Education, Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) and the Health Education (HE) guidelines whereby schools must provide a ‘balanced and broadly based curriculum promoting the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and preparing them for the opportunities and responsibilities and experiences of later life.
 
 
Relationships and Sex Education
 
The programme for Relationships and Sex Education forms an important element of the Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education curriculum. It is carefully integrated to form part of the work on Growing and Changing, and develops from an understanding of families, growth from baby to child to adult, the different stages in a person’s life, to understanding the physical and emotional changes that take place during puberty. Most importantly, it focuses on the importance of trusting, caring relationships where respect and the rights of the individual form the basis of all healthy relationships.
 
The SCARF programme provides a structured curriculum for the teaching of relationships and sex education appropriate to children’s age and stage of development. Parents / guardians are welcome to discuss this programme more fully and should contact the school for further information if required. Legally, parents / guardians are also permitted to withdraw their child(ren) from these lessons, though we do urge parents to discuss this with the school prior to doing so.
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