PSHE & RSHE Sex Education

Personal Social Health & Economic education  (PSHE)

PSHE Policy (includes SRE)

Which includes Relationship, Sex & Health education (RSHE)

Teaching PSHE is a statutory requirement from September 2021.  At Thorogate School, we have  have  been teaching PSHE for years and think it is great that it is now statutory.  The documentation from the DfE can be found here.  

For primary schools, sex education is not statutory.   However as with PSHE, we have been teaching sex education for years.   This is an opportunity to formalise how we teach sex education and ensure parents are aware of how we approach it.

At Thorogate School we teach sex education predominately through the science curriculum.  We ensure pupils have scientific vocabulary, being able to label body parts correctly and understand the changes that the human body goes through up to and including how a baby is conceived and born.  Again, the focus is on the science rather than any act.

We have chosen to subscribe to a PSHE provider called Jigsaw.  They have a very structured approach across the whole school.  It includes Relationship, Sex & Health education.

PSHE & RSE - JIGSAW

So what do we want to know from you?

Further documentation

Below are a number of documents that you may find useful to read before the consultation.

3i PSHE & SRE
PSHE & SRE Progression Overview Document.pdf