Community
Starting School
School Day
Useful Info
School Performance
RSE & Health Education
We want all children to grow up healthy, happy, safe, and able to manage the challenges and opportunities of modern Britain. That is why, from September 2021, all primary age children will be taught Relationships and Health Education within PSHE.
​
These subjects are designed to equip your child with knowledge to make informed decisions about their wellbeing, health and relationships as well as preparing them for a successful adult life. The world for all young people looks very different from the way it did 20 years ago when this curriculum was last updated – these changes bring the content into the 21st century, so that it is relevant for your child.
​
At Greenland we aim to deliver the content in a way that is age and developmentally appropriate and sensitive to the needs and backgrounds of our pupils.
​
Useful resources
Click here to participate in the Relationship and Health Education Parental Engagement Survey
Click here to access Information for Parents and FAQ
Click here to access the Greenland PSHE, RSE and Health Education Curriculum Overview
Click here to access the Department for Education’s Understanding Relationships and Health Education in your child’s primary school: a guide for parents
Click here to access the Department for Education’s Communication to schools on the implementation of Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex and Health Education
Further information
Below are links to additional information that you may find useful.
Online Safety
www.thinkyouknow.co.uk
If you’re concerned about online grooming or sexual behaviour online, report it to CEOP at www.ceop.police.co.uk
If you stumble across criminal, sexual or obscene content on the internet, you should report it to the Internet Watch Foundation at www.iwf.org.uk
Online Bullying
https://www.bullying.co.uk/cyberbullying/
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/what-is-child-abuse/types-of-abuse/
​
Social Media
The age limit to join most social networking sites is 13.
https://www.internetmatters.org/resources/social-media-advice-on-popular
​
Video games
https://www.askaboutgames.com/
​
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco
https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/for-parents/parents-guide-to-support
Domestic abuse
https://www.victimsupport.org.uk/crime-info/types-crime/domestic-abuse
https://www.womensaid.org.uk/information-support/
​
Mental health
https://youngminds.org.uk/(link is external)
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/c/children-and-young-people
​
Physical wellbeing
https://www.nhs.uk/change4life
https://education.gov.scot/parentzone/learning-at-home/supporting-health
​
Looking after your money
https://natwest.mymoneysense.com/home/
https://www.lifesavers.co.uk/(link is external)
​
Being safe – fire, road, sea safety
https://www.think.gov.uk/education-resources/
https://www.rospa.com/Leisure-Safety/Water/Advice/Children-Young-People
​
Peer pressure
https://kidshelpline.com.au/parents/issues/helping-kids-and-teens-deal-p…
https://kidshealth.org/en/teens/peer-pressure.html
​
Stereotypes
https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/news-and-blogs/our-blog/traditional
​
Bereavement
childbereavementuk.org
https://www.winstonswish.org/
​
Growing up
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/sexual-health/stages-of-puberty-what-happen..
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/parents-and-young-people/informa…
​
Below is some more information that you may find useful.
​
Relationships education
Relationships Education will put in place the building blocks needed for positive and safe relationships, including with family, friends and online. Your child will be taught what a relationship is, what friendship is, what family means and who can support them. In an age-appropriate way, your child’s school will cover how to treat each other with kindness, consideration and respect.
By the end of Primary School, pupils will have been taught content on:
-
families
-
caring relationships
-
respectful relationships
-
online relationships
-
being safe
You can find further details by searching ‘relationships and health education’ on GOV.UK
​
Health education
Health Education aims to give your child the information they need to make good decisions about their own health and wellbeing, to recognise issues in themselves and others, and to seek support as early as possible when issues arise.
​
By the end of primary school, pupils will have been taught content on:
-
mental wellbeing
-
internet safety and harms
-
physical health and fitness
-
healthy eating
-
facts and risks associated with drugs, alcohol and tobacco
-
health and prevention
-
basic first aid
-
changing adolescent body
You can find further detail by searching ‘relationships and health education’ on GOV.UK
​
Your parental rights
The important lessons you teach your child about healthy relationships, looking after themselves and staying safe, are respected and valued under this new curriculum. Teaching at school will complement and reinforce the lessons you teach your child as they grow up. Your child’s school is required to consult with you when developing and renewing their policies on Relationships Education. These policies must be published online and be available to anybody free of charge.
​
You can express your opinion, and this will help your child’s school decide how and when to cover the content of the statutory guidance. It may also help them decide whether to teach additional non-statutory content. Schools are required to ensure their teaching reflects the age and religious background of their pupils.
​
Right to withdraw
You cannot withdraw your child from Relationships Education because it is important that all children receive this content, covering topics such as friendships and how to stay safe.
​
In Year 6 at Greenland, we aim to teach Sex Education at the end of the Summer term before the transition to secondary school. If you do not want your child to take part in some or all of the lessons on Sex Education, you can ask that they are withdrawn. At primary level, the head teacher must grant this request.
The science curriculum in all maintained schools also includes content on human development, including reproduction, which there is no right to withdraw from.
Questions & Answers
The Department for Education is introducing compulsory Relationships Education and Health Education for primary pupils, this will be compulsory.
​
Through these subjects, we want to support all young people to be happy, healthy and safe – we want to equip them for adult life and to make a positive contribution to society. Throughout our engagement process as we developed this curriculum, we have heard a number of wide ranging concerns.
​Below, we have explained some of the common misconceptions around the subjects.
​
Q1: Will my child’s school have to consult with me before teaching these subjects?
A1: Schools will be required to consult with parents when developing and reviewing their policies for Relationships Education and RSE, which will inform schools’ decisions on when and how certain content is covered. Effective consultation gives the space and time for parents to input, ask questions, share concerns and for the school to decide the way forward. Schools will listen to parent’s views, and then make a reasonable decision as to how they wish to proceed. What is taught, and how, is ultimately a decision for the school and consultation does not provide a parental veto on curriculum content.
​
A school’s policies for these subjects must be published online, and must be available to any individual free of charge. Schools should also ensure that, when they consult parents, they provide examples of the resources they plan to use, for example the books they will use in lessons.
​
Q2: Will my child be taught sex education at primary? This is too young!
A2:We are not introducing compulsory sex education at primary school.
​
We are introducing Relationships Education at primary, to put in place the building blocks needed for positive and safe relationships of all kinds. This will start with family and friends, how to treat each other with kindness, and recognising the difference between online and offline friendships.
​
Some primary schools choose to teach sex education (which goes beyond the existing national curriculum for science), and in those instances we recommend you discuss this with the school to understand what they propose to teach and how- this would usually be at the end of Year 6. If you continue to have concerns, you have an automatic right to withdraw your child from these lessons.
​
Q3: Does the new Relationships Education and RSE curriculum take account of my faith?
A3: The subjects are designed to help children from all backgrounds build positive and safe relationships, and to thrive in modern Britain.
​
In all schools, when teaching these subjects, the religious background of pupils must be taken into account when planning teaching, so that topics are appropriately handled. Schools with a religious character can build on the core content by reflecting their beliefs in their teaching.
​
In developing these subjects, we have worked with a number of representative bodies and faith organisations, representing all the major faith groups in England. Several faith organisations produce teaching materials that schools can choose to use.
​
Q4: Has the government listened to the views of my community in introducing these subjects?
A4: A thorough engagement process, involving a public call for evidence and discussions with over 90 organisations, as well as the public consultation on the draft regulations and guidance, has informed the key decisions on these subjects. The consultation received over 11,000 responses from teachers, schools, expert organisations, young people and parents – these responses have helped finalise the statutory guidance as well as the regulations that have been laid in Parliament.
​
Q5: Will these subjects promote LGBT relationships?
A5: No, these subjects don’t ‘promote’ anything, they educate.
​
Pupils should be taught about the society in which they are growing up. These subjects are designed to foster respect for others and for difference, and educate pupils about healthy relationships. RSE should meet the needs of all pupils, whatever their developing sexuality or identity – this should include age-appropriate teaching about different types of relationships in the context of the law.
​
Pupils should receive teaching on LGBT relationships during their school years – we expect secondary schools to include LGBT content. Primary schools are enabled and encouraged to cover LGBT content if they consider it age appropriate to do so, but there is no specific requirement for this. This would be delivered, for example, through teaching about different types of family, including those with same sex parents.
