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Scarning’s Golden Code: “Treat others as you would want to be treated.”At Scarning, we value the personal, social, emotional and health development of all children. Our aim is to put in the key building blocks of healthy, respectful relationships; focusing on family and friendships in all contexts including online. We want to make sure that our plans are transparent and the content is age and developmentally appropriate and sensitive to all backgrounds and beliefs of parents, carers and children.Within the new RHSE statutory framework, we want to encourage a positive and enabling learning environment while addressing the needs of the whole child. We want happy, secure, self-aware and confident pupils. We endeavour to provide the children with skills and attributes that foster a sensitivity, understanding and respect of their own families, relationships and friendships and of those of others at school and within the wider community.We enable the children to understand and manage their feelings, emotions, and appropriate behaviours in a positive and supportive way. We give the children the opportunity to understand their own and others health and well-being. Through this exploration, children learn about health and prevention, changing adolescent bodies and mental wellbeing as they grow and go through puberty and be able to know whom they can turn to for support, help and guidance.Through the RHSE curriculum and other events such as assemblies, lectures, debates and buddy groups, we promote positive relationships and friendships. Our curriculum plan recognises that all families can look different and that well-judged and sensitive teaching will be required, however, we recognise families in whatever form have several same goals such as care, nurture, love, respect and kindness.Through our extensive RHSE programme, we enable children to understand how to make choices and decisions that will help them adapt and prepare for lifestyle choices now and for the future. We give them opportunities to explore situations, knowing which are safe and how to respond when they are unsure. (Including online relationships.) Many of these topics and areas will feature as part of other subjects and timetabled lessons such as PATHS, Concept Threads, “Yasmin and Tom” (FPA), Science, E-Safety, PE and DT will complement the objectives taught in RHSE. We recognise the above is the statutory curriculum for all children at our school.As the children move into upper KS2 (Year 5 and 6), they have the opportunity to explore specific sex education topics, such as how babies are conceived. This is the element in which parents have the right to withdraw their child if they so wish.Our RSHE curriculum also reacts to the needs and concerns of our children in the moment. Pupil voice is essential in the planning of our curriculum and this is enabled in various ways: through in depth discussions and debates in class, through pupil surveys, via regular feedback from the school pastoral lead, meetings with the school council and learning ambassadors, as well as the important ad-hoc conversations that take place within the wider school community between pupils, parents and staff every day.
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