RSHE 

You in Your World: 

Our Relationships, Health and Sex Education (RSHE) curriculum helps students embrace the challenges of living happy and successful adult lives. It guides students in their quest for the knowledge they will need to enable them to make informed decisions about their wellbeing, health and relationships, to build their self-confidence in adult life and to empower them with a voice that will equip them for life and learning in the world beyond school.

Our curriculum is taught as part of the Key Stage Three and Key stage 4 timetable. In both key stages the content reflects the Government’s PSHE guidance. For key stage 3 the topics are organised into six linked focus areas:

• Being me in My World

• Celebrating Difference

• Dreams and Goals

• Healthy Me

• Relationships

• Changing Me

In Year 11, with the curriculum focusing around life after Secondary School, the focus areas are as follows:

• Building for the Future 

• Next Steps 

• Communication in Relationships

• Independence

• Families

These focus areas, which spiral upwards through the curriculum each year, have been carefully developed using some of the most up-to-date, expert written resources available and are consistent with the aims of the PSHE Association and Portsmouth Local Education Authority. In addition to the taught curriculum, we also deliver the curriculum through assemblies, drop down days and with the use of guest speakers, reacting to local, national and global issues of importance to our students as they arise. We develop reading skills to ensure students are able to access relevant and up to date information regarding their own development as human beings.

Our Relationships & Sex Education Policy was written in consultation with parents. This consultation resulted in 100% backing of the Academy's RSE policy with 91% of respondents believing the Academy should answer any questions a student may have about relationships or sex education. From this consultation, we also intend to establish regular parent surveys in order to maintain an open dialogue about this important subject. It is our expectation that all parents will want their children to take part in all aspects of RSHE; should you have any concerns about the sex education element of the Relationships Sex and Health Education, please contact Miss Selby, the curriculum lead for RSHE,  who will discuss this with you. Parents will be informed and consent given before a sex education lesson is taught.