RSE (Relationships and Sexuality Education

Article 2 "Your right to equality and non-discrimination."

Article 6 "Your right to grow up and be healthy."

Article 13 "Your right to have information."

Article 34 "Your right to be protected from abuse."

Relationships and Sexuality Education is mandatory from September 2022 and is considered as part of the Health and Well-Being Area of learning, as well as being a cross cutting theme across all learning. Our school curriculum embraces the RSE Code.

Our RSE provision will have a positive and empowering role in our learners’ education and will play a vital role in supporting them to realise the four purposes as part of a whole-school approach. Helping learners to form and maintain a range of relationships, all based on mutual trust and respect, is the foundation of RSE. These relationships are critical to the development of emotional well-being, resilience and empathy. In accordance with Welsh Government legislation, there is no right to withdraw from RSE.

The schools in the North Gower Partnership are participating in the Swansea Bay Healthy Schools and as part of this work we will be teaching Relationships and Sexuality Education through a consistent model aligned with the updated Public Health Wales guidance.

Relationships and Sexuality Education will be introduced to the pupils through:

· Circle time activities

· ‘Growing Up’ resources

· ABM Personal Development and Healthy relationships lessons

· Story books

· Areas of Learning , e.g. RVE

· Personal and Social Education programmes

· Informally as opportunities arise in the classroom.