Personal Development & RHSE

As well as 25 minutes of taught lessons on 3 days every week our personal development programme is backed up by 'Votes for Schools' topics at KS3, study skills sessions at KS4 and a weekly assembly. We also have guest speakers and special assemblies to cover topics such as sexual health, CSE, law and order etc.

Citizenship is fully embedded in the personal development curriculum.

The Department for Education provides statutory guidance that all schools need to be delivering a balanced and fair Relations, Sex and Health Education Curriculum from September 2020. We are proud that here at Rawlett we have been complaint with the current legislation for many years.

Links

Rawlett RSHE Policy

Understanding relationships, sex and health education at your child’s school: secondary (DfE document)

Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education (DfE document)

For more information please contact Richard Kingstone (Director of Character & Community).

Date of consultation: 16th - 27th September 2024

Method: All parents emailed twice with a link to a Google Quiz containing links to the RHSE policy and associated documents along with a series of questions. The questions are based on the PHSE Association recommendations.

Parental comments:

“Clearly set out what will be taught.. I think it’s good teaching about marriage and respect within marriage. I was never taught that at school, just basic sex education. It’s good to also teach about respect and understanding your actions or words can hurt others feelings on a deeper level.”

“Just think some particular topics may need more than 3 lessons. Anti bullying needs to be something visited more frequently and often.”

“Not sure if this already happens but smaller group sessions and single sex sessions may be effective and appropriate for some of these topics.”

“Really happy with the content, very comprehensive.”