RSHE 

Curriculum Vision

At New Bridge, RSHE is a crucial part of the journey of preparing our pupils for their Destinations.  Good relationships are fundamental to our ethos and our pupil’s success.  Our curriculum at Key Stage 4 builds on the foundations delivered in Key Stage 3 to ensure pupils sustain their lifelong learning about relationships, emotions, looking after ourselves, different families, sex, sexuality and sexual health.  It is critical that we continue to support 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. It is our intentions that RSHE will strengthen core skills like communication, listening, asking for and identifying sources of help.  It will teach our pupils how to negotiate, recognise pressures from other people and how to resist them, how to deal with challenging prejudice and the difference between accurate and inaccurate information.

Our intent 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 has a key part to play in the personal, social, moral and spiritual development of our young people.

RSHE Lessons at Pathways

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

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.

The curriculum is divided into five strands as below:

• Families - Pupils are taught about the characteristics of healthy family life and the diverse way in which families exist. They learn about different types of committed, stable relationships and how these relationships contribute to health and well-being. They learn about marriage, parenting, and how to determine whether other children, adults or sources of information are trustworthy.
• Relationships and Friendships – The curriculum supports pupils to develop positive and healthy friendships, in all contexts including online. It teaches them about stereotypes and the damage these can cause.  It includes activities which cover different types of bullying and the impact of this as well as violent behaviour and coercive control.
• Online and Media – Pupils explore their rights, responsibilities and opportunities online, including that the same expectations of behaviour apply in all contexts. They learn about online risks and where to get support to report material or manage issues online as well as understanding the impact of viewing harmful content such as sexually explicit material. 
• Being Safe – The curriculum covers appropriate boundaries in friendships and the concept of privacy. We teach body awareness and the differences between appropriate and inappropriate or unsafe physical, and other, contact. Pupils learn the importance of consent and how people can actively communicate and recognise consent from others.
• Intimate and sexual relationships, including sexual health – The topics are written to cover:
  • the characteristics and positive aspects of healthy one-to-one intimate relationships
  • facts about fertility, reproductive health; contraceptive choices; pregnancy and miscarriage; sexually transmitted infections
  • strategies for identifying and managing sexual pressure
  • how to get further advice

Through our rigorous and progressive curriculum, pupils 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.

Pupil Voice

I really enjoy RSHE, I can share how I am feeling and learn about my friends feelings too.