As part of PSHE at Rice Lane Primary School, during the Spring term, children throughout the school learn, in an age appropriate way, about relationship and sex education (RSE) within their lessons (Year 6 start this unit after their SATs tests).
Rice Lane Primary School RSE Overview:
We use a range of resources throughout school including The Christopher Winters Project, Channel 4 living and growing and a range of story books. All of the resources are used at age appropriate stages and the lessons have been carefully chosen for each year group. An outline of the lessons has been set out below:
Year One:
‘Growing and caring for Ourselves’
Lesson 1 – Keeping Clean
Lesson 2 – Growing and Changing
Lesson 3 – Families and Care
Year Two:
‘Differences (Channel 4, Living and Growing clips)'
Lesson 1 – Boys and Girls
Lesson 2 – Male and Female
Lesson 3 – ‘It’s Ok to be different’ Todd Parr
Year 3:
‘Valuing Difference and Keeping Safe’
Lesson 1 – Personal Space
Lesson 2 – Family Differences
Lesson 3 – Naming the Body Parts
Growing up (Channel 4, Living and Growing clips)
Year 4:
‘Growing Up’
Lesson 1 – Growing and Changing
Lesson 2 – Difference: Male and Female
Lesson 3 – ‘Up in Heaven’ Emma Chishester Clark
Lesson 4 – ‘Dinosaurs Divorce’ Laurie and Mark Brown
Year 5:
‘Puberty’
Lesson 1 – Talking about Puberty
Lesson 2 – Puberty and Hygiene
Lesson 3 – Girl Talk / Boy Talk (Channel 4, Living and Growing clips)
Year 6:
‘Puberty, Relationships and Reproduction’
Lesson 1 – Understanding Relationships
Lesson 2 – Puberty and Reproduction
Lesson 3 – Conception and Pregnancy
Lesson 4 – Communicating in Relationships
How babies are made and how babies are born (Living and growing clips)