RSHE

Skill

It is required that all of our students to have the opportunity to discuss sensitive topics in a safe environment where we encourage curiosity but insist that the topics are approached respectfully. This subject is not only to impart knowledge and raise awareness, but to understand how students can express their views and experiences in a professional space which serves as a model for their later lives.

Character

We want students to have the facts that will contribute to their lives inside and outside of academic achievement. Discussion by its very nature will not only reveal their character but develop it, honing their articulation and approaches to situations and conversations. We want students to become more confident speakers, purveyors of fact and respect in the everchanging world around them.

Experiences

Students will have the opportunity to engage with experiences of real people, encouraging them to contribute their opinion to scenarios that range from healthy eating to relationship dynamics. We strive to ensure our students are more empathetic to the community but to also one another, understanding that their own life experiences imbue them with a unique perspective that should be valued.

Criticality

RSHE is designed to develop students’ ability to think critically about the world around them and to carefully consider their own contributions to it. This subject will encourage them to understand the human experience and their position in it, developing the emotional intelligence necessary to articulate their own thoughts and feelings but also understanding the thoughts and feelings of others.

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)

The purpose of relationship and sex education (RSE) is to provide knowledge and understanding of how the human body changes during puberty and the processes of human reproduction, within the context of relationships based on love and respect. It should develop understanding and attitudes which will help students to form relationships in a responsible and healthy manner and to appreciate the value of stable family life, including the responsibilities of a healthy relationship.

There is a vast amount of, sometimes confusing, information about relationships and sex on the internet, on TV and in magazines, which young people may have access to, and this can sometimes make an already confusing time seem even more complicated! Therefore, at times, throughout your child’s education at Tudor Grange Academy, staff, and occasionally outside speakers will deliver sessions focusing on relationship and sex education.

If young people can start their transition into adulthood with factual information and the confidence and knowledge to understand what is happening to them, they will hopefully grow into confident and healthy adults able to make positive choices. This can start with learning the basics about growing up and these sessions at the Academy may reinforce what you are already doing at home.

From September 2020 RSHE has been statutory for all schools across the country. Our curriculum has been fully designed for students at Tudor Grange Academy Redditch following the Department of Education statutory guidance to ensure we are providing the most appropriate and factual provisions for our students.

The Sex education part of this curriculum can cause some anxiety for parents. We have planned our curriculum to ensure that only suitable, factual age-appropriate content is delivered to support a safe and healthy understanding of this part of life. Content does not promote sexual exploration but informs about making mature and safe decisions in life.

If parents do not wish their child to attend Sex Education they can choose to withdraw them, and students will receive extra RSHE lessons on other aspects of the curriculum at this time. Students are not able to be withdrawn from RSHE lessons which cover the same content that is delivered in Key Stage 3 Science lessons such as puberty or any other aspect of the RSHE curriculum.

The Department for Education advise that if a parent removes their child from Sex education that this content should be delivered at home.

Since September 2020 parents can only opt to withdraw their child from sex education elements of RSHE (not relationship elements), up to and until three terms before the child turns 16. After that point, if the child wishes to receive sex education rather than be withdrawn, the school must make arrangements to provide the child with sex education during one of those terms.