RSHE (KS3)

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

                                                                                  (A.A. Milne)

Curriculum Vision

At New Bridge School, Relationships Sex and Health Education (RSHE) is an important part of the journey to prepare our pupils for their Destinations.

Our curriculum provides the foundation for lifelong learning about relationships, emotions, looking after ourselves, different families, sex, sexuality and sexual health.

It is critical that we provide our pupils with vital understanding about recognising and forming healthy friendships and relationships which reduces their vulnerability and exploitation in the community.

Our high quality RSHE creates a safe school community where pupils can grow, learn, and develop confident, appropriate healthy behaviour for life.

Our vision is that RSHE lessons will have a positive impact on pupils’ health and wellbeing, and their ability to achieve aspirational Destinations.

New Bridge has designed and delivers a truly inclusive RSHE curriculum, ensuring that all children and young people are supported to navigate puberty and young adulthood in a safe, healthy and responsible way.

Our aim is to generate discussion amongst young people about health and wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world.

RSHE Lessons at New Bridge School 

RSHE is taught on a weekly basis and delivered in class groups by the form tutor.

This ensures that pupils are taught by familiar adults, who they have a good relationship with, and feel comfortable and supported around sensitive topics in a safe and secure environment.

The RSHE curriculum has been mapped out as a spiral curriculum where each topic is taught every year but with deepening layers of complexities.

At this stage any prior learning is assessed and the programme adjusted and individualised accordingly.

Pupils will then have opportunity to widen and develop their understanding through a variety of teaching and learning strategies which include games, role play and discussion.

They are also inclusive of all pupil need to ensure every pupil has the opportunity to access the content sensitively and express their response to it.

Pupils work towards small step targets and are given regular opportunities to reflect on and identify what they have learned, what needs to be learned next and what they need to do to continue their learning.

Through our rigorous and progressive curriculum, children develop key skills and are prepared for the wider world beyond school, a world in which they can keep themselves safe and healthy and thrive with the support of the positive relationships they forge with those around them.