Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)
RELATIONSHIP AND SEX EDUCATION
At St. Bernadette’s we use Ten Ten’s programme for Catholic Primary Schools, Life to the Full, to teach Relationships Education and Health Education.
This programme is taught through the prism of Catholic RSHE. The framework of this programme is taken from the Model Catholic RSE Programme by the Catholic Education Service, which has been highlighted by the Department of Education as a work of good practice.
The children will be taught age-appropriate topics throughout their school life, the programme includes teaching about:
- personal health
- physical and emotional wellbeing
- strong emotions
- private parts of the body
- personal relationships
- family structures
- trusted adults
- growing bodies
- puberty
- periods
- life cycles
- the dangers of social media
- where babies come from
- an understanding of the common good and
- living in the wider world.
The entire teaching is underpinned with a religious understanding that our deepest identity is as a child of God – created chosen and loved by God. The programme is fully inclusive of all pupils and their families.