St. Peter's Catholic Primary School

The statutory requirements of RSHE are delivered through a wider PSHE (Personal Social Health Education) curriculum. We are calling this Personal Development.

Our teaching of Relationships, Sex, Health Education (RSHE) is rooted in our aim to create a Christian ethos of love; an ethos of growth – personally, as a member of the Church family, and with God. Our aim is to ensure that all children ‘let their light shine’ now and in their future lives.

The human person, made in the image and likeness of God, underpins the approach to all education in a Catholic school. Our approach to RSE therefore reflects the Catholic Church’s teaching of the human person. We will nurture human wholeness and embrace the spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional, moral and social development of children and young people through ‘Journey in Love’ - an Archdiocesan recommended resource. We believe that we can promote the development of the whole child, so that children can grow in virtue, wisdom and stature, understanding both the emotional, social and physical aspects of growing spiritually, as well as moral aspects of relationships within a context of a Christian vision for the purpose of life.

With an approach centred around the Gospel Values, we want all children and young people at St. Peter’s to have their spirituality, wellbeing, safety and emotional health enriched and supported by their experience at school. This includes promoting inclusivity within our communities, developing positive relationships, helping all children to feel safe and welcome in school and aiming to ensure that no child, young person, or family feels isolated. RSHE prepares our children and young people for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life growing up in today’s world. We recognise that our children are part of the wider British society, which is multi- cultural and multi-faith in its composition. We also understand that we have a crucial role to play in ensuring that our children become valuable and fully rounded members of society, who treat others with respect and tolerance and are fully prepared for life in modern Britain. We aim to teach, reinforce and develop our inherent British values of Mutual Respect, Individual Liberty, Tolerance for those of different faiths and beliefs, The Rule of Law and Democracy - both within our school practices and within our curriculum coverage.

The documents that we have available are: 

• Curriculum Content 
  - This document shows the sequence of learning throughout each Personal Development topic.  
• Knowledge Organisers
  - This document is for our children, it contains prior knowledge from previous learning, key vocabulary for each Personal Development topic as well as the key knowledge that will be taught throughout the topic.
• Progression of Knowledge and Skills
  - This document shows how learning progresses in Personal Development from Foundation Stage right through to Year 6.
• End of Unit Assessments 
• - This document is used with the children at the end of each topic of work and is there to help the children know more and remember more as well as forming part of our teacher assessment.