At Longmoor Primary School our RSE curriculum is firmly embedded within our PHSE curriculum, the Jigsaw scheme. 
Jigsaw combines PSHE, emotional literacy, mindfulness, social skills and spiritual development. 
 

From September 2020, primary schools in England are required to teach Social, Relationships and Health Education as compulsory subjects and the Department for Education strongly recommends this should also include age-appropriate Sex Education – we will be teaching this following the ‘Jigsaw’ program.  These materials are available to view and discuss with staff should you have any concerns.

Relationships & Sex Education

An important part of the Jigsaw PSHE programme is delivered through the 'Relationships' and 'Changing Me' puzzle pieces.

There are four main aims of teaching RSE:

• To enable children to understand and respect their bodies
• To help children develop positive and healthy relationships appropriate to their age and development
• To support children to have positive self-esteem and body image
• To empower them to be safe and safeguarded.

Each year group will be taught appropriate to their age and developmental stage. At no point will a child be taught something that is inappropriate; and if a question from a child arises and the teacher feels it would be inappropriate to answer, (for example, because of its mature or explicit nature), this information with be shared with you by your child’s class teacher. The question will not be answered to the child or class if it is outside the remit of that year group’s programme.

Below is a summary of RSE coverage within the Jigsaw scheme for each year group:
• Year 1 - Boys’ and girls’ bodies; naming body parts
• Year 2 - Boys’ and girls’ bodies; body parts and respecting privacy (which parts of the body are private and why this is)
• Year 3 - How babies grow and how boys’ and girls’ bodies change as they grow older
• Year 4 - Internal and external reproductive body parts, body changes in girls and menstruation
• Year 5 - Puberty for boys and girls, and conception
• Year 6 - Puberty for boys and girls and understanding conception to birth of a baby

The aim of our teaching is to help our children to learn to respect themselves and others and to move with confidence from childhood through adolescence into adulthood and to develop happy, healthy and safe relationships.

RSE Day - 30th June 2022

On Thursday 30th June 2022, Longmoor took part in the national RSE day, the theme of the day was 'Celebrating Difference - Everyone Can Sparkle'. The purpose of the day was to celebrate great Relationships and Sex education in schools and various other settings. The children across the school participated in relationships activities during the day.