Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)

 PSHE Curriculum

From September 2020, PSHE is became a statutory subject in the National Curriculum. At East Bergholt, although it is identified as a 'non-statutory' subject it has always been taught and is a highly valued subject within our curriculum. To ensure we are meeting the new teaching requirements of this subject, whilst following the Government guidance we have re-written our whole PSHE curriculum, which is split into four main themes:

-Myself and My Relationships

-Citizenship

-Economic Wellbeing

-Healthy and Safer Lifestyles

Within these themes are different units of work which will be taught on a two year rolling programme. We have added the curriculum frameworks at the bottom of this page, showing what the children learn at each stage of their primary education and how this links to the wider curriculum for Personal, Social, Health and Economic education.

Relationships and Sex Education

In school we aim to help children to learn to respect themselves and others and move safely from childhood, through adolescence, into adulthood. As part of this work, we deliver an ongoing programme of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE). We believe that by working in partnership with parents we can encourage children and young people to make healthy choices as they grow and change.

RSE has an important part to play in learning about emotional, social and physical aspects of growing up.  It enables young people to develop the essential life skills for building and maintaining positive, enjoyable, respectful and non-exploitative relationships. It also supports learning about identity and the importance of staying safe, both physically and emotionally, including on and off line.  

Our programme of learning begins as soon as children arrive in school and continues until the end of primary school. There is more information on our programme inside the leaflets at the bottom of the page.