Dear Parent/Carer

At Twiss Green Community Primary Schoo, we work hard to promote the safeguarding, health (physical and emotional) and happiness of our pupils, as promoted through our school aims and values.

As you may already be aware the government has released new guidance for the teaching of Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) in schools. We welcome this guidance as an opportunity to further develop our existing good practice as part of our PSHE programme. You can read the guidance in full here.

Our aim is to teach RSHE to the same high standard as our other curriculum areas through the provision of a spiral, development curriculum that is tailored to the age-and-stage of our learners' needs. It will enable learners to build on their learning at an appropriate pace and to re-visit some topics to further develop knowledge, values and skills.

Our experienced and skilled teachers are committed to teaching RSHE within an inclusive and supportive learning environment, using non-biased resources taught through non-judgmental teaching approaches. This will allow learners the opportunity to consider the information and develop their own values, attitudes and opinions relevant to the topic.  

We believe in the importance of parents and carers as primary educators of their children and encourage you to discuss your child’s relationships and sex education with them at home. This is an opportunity for you to share your family values in relation to the topics, building important channels of communication about emotions, the human body and relationships with your child both now and in the future. 

As part of implementing the RSHE curriculum, we would like to consult with you on our proposed policy and curriculum content.  To support your input into the subject we have created an explanatory presentation see below that outlines the key changes and elements of the RSHE curriculum.

We would also like to invite you to complete our survey to share your views: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMxioh6IPnvEb2ryNvv_TPER4XM_uVzhwa89mAE9k88zkXGw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=109588546979695526236 

If you have any queries related to PSHE and RSHE please contact me via the school.

Yours sincerely,

Lynsey Kelly

PSHE Subject Leader/ Deputy Headteacher