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Learning at this Level is likely to be for children in ELC and P1, but it can be earlier or later for some.
How do we learn at school?
Children are curious. They are really interested in how people get on and learning about their bodies. While learning at Nursery or School is important, children are of course very dependent on their parents and carers to look after them, love and care for them and help them learn behaviours and values for life. For children learning at Early Level a lot of our learning together is about talking and playing, so staff will use conversations, Learning Resource Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood education games, drawing and story books to support learning about health and wellbeing.
Learning is divided into 4 organisers.
Click on the year groups to view more information about the content of lessons at each stage.
Positive Relationships
Children will learn about:
That all our families are different, and that people who are important to the children provide care and love.
How to make and keep friendships, thinking about how they get along with other children, play together, co-operate and share.
About the importance of kindness and showing kindness to others.
That there are professional people who help and care for them, like nursery staff, teachers, doctors or nurses.
Physical Changes
Children will learn about:
That people are individual and unique.
About the similarities and differences among children in their group.
To understand that treating someone badly based on a difference is not okay.
Names for parts of their body.
Keeping clean and why this is important – learning about hand washing and brushing teeth.
Sexual Health and Sexuality
Children will learn about:
Personal space and to recognise and respect how another person is feeling.
To recognise and express their feelings, including when they might feel safe or unsafe, happy or worried.
To identify adults that they can go to if they have a question or a worry, introducing the idea of trust.
That parts of their body are private.
Role of the Parent and Carer
Children will learn about:
Where living things come from.
The needs of plants, animals and babies.
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