RSE Curriculum

The Relationships and Sex Education curriculum below is what is currently planned to be taught in each year group.

Year R

Have a developing awareness of their own needs and be sensitive to those of others.
Understand that they can expect others to treat their needs with respect.
Have a developing respect for their own cultures and beliefs and those of other people.
Find out about events in their own lives, in those of their families and other people they know.

Year 1

Learn how to look and sound friendly, and consider the qualities we look for and need to develop in order to have and be a good friend.
Know that emotions vary in intensity from mild to very powerful.
Know that sometimes we have to share people and things.
Know how we make changes in our lives and cope with them.
To extend their understanding of their own and others’ healthy lifestyles.

Year 2

Year 3

To be introduced to some basic skills of assertiveness.
Become more responsible for their healthy lifestyle.
Know that more than one feeling can be experienced at a time.
To consider some ways in which change is positive, developmental and necessary
To understand that people make their own choices.
To develop their understanding of happiness and excitement, sadness and fearfulness, as well as ways to manage feelings.
To be introduced to the correct terminology for their public and private bodily areas.

Year 4

To be able to resist pressure and influence
To know some of the changes in their bodies as they approach puberty and how to deal with them.
Know that a degree of apprehension about change is normal and that humans have a range of strategies for coping flexibly with it.
Develop strategies to recognise feelings in others and to help others overcome negative feelings.
Use problem- solving skills to generate solutions, decide on a course of action, implement it, and review it.

Year 5

Explore friendship choices.
To revise knowledge of some of the changes in their bodies as they approach puberty and how to deal with them.
To be able to assess risks and make appropriate, safe decisions.
Explore the idea that negative feelings about change do not last for ever.
To learn about every human’s basic rights and the differences between needs, wants and rights.
To be aware of the greater need for personal hygiene and personal space.

Year 6

Know that there are both internal and external body changes during puberty.
Know that each person is made from an egg from a woman and a sperm from a man.
Know how it feels to hold a minority opinion, feel confident in standing up for your beliefs.
To explore the importance of taking responsibility for action and behaviour.
Develop strategies for managing their feelings.
Learn a number of strategies for dealing with embarrassment.
Develop strategies that enable them to manage change more effectively.