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Sex and Relationship Education

Sex and Relationship Education within PSHE

Year Topic Area Learning Objectives
7
  1. Friendships
  2. Bullying
  3. Personal Safety
  4. Health Session with school nurse
  • Skills in managing and sustaining relationships.
  • Strategies for coping and dealing with the problem.
  • Identifying that risks and consequences are inherent in behaviour choices.
  • To consolidate knowledge about puberty and adolescence (in addition to a range of other health issues).
8
  1. Behaviour
  2. Bullying
  3. Family Life
  4. Personal safety
  5. Drugs (including alcohol)
  • To develop skills of assertiveness to resist peer pressure.
  • As above to develop methods to tackle and diffuse bullying situations.
  • To develop empathy with the values inherent in family life.
  • To develop appropriate strategies for keeping safe as a result of becoming increasingly independent.
  • (relevant to SRE) The risks associated with excessive alcohol drinking and drug misuse and teenage pregnancy.
9 Relationships To develop skills to :-
  • Form new relationships
  • Sustain existing relationships
  • Manage changing relationships
  • Cope with the pressures within relationships.
10
  1. Family and Relationships
  1. To know the benefits of marriage / a stable relationship in bringing up children.
  2. An understanding and tolerance of the diversity of personal and sexual preference in relationships.
  3. How different forms of contraception work and the sources of help and advice available locally to young people.
  4. The law in relation to sexual activity.
  5. The importance of guarding against HIV and other STIs
  1. Moral Issues (Core RE)
  1. The argument around such issues as Abortion, euthanasia and genetic engineering.
  2. Forming a personal opinion.
11 Parenting Issues
  1. The skills and qualities required to be A good parent.
  2. How becoming a parent affects peoples’ lives; economically, socially and personally.


Sex and Relationship Education within Science

Year Topic Area Learning Objectives
7 Reproduction In this topic, pupils:
  • Extend their earlier ideas about human reproduction and consider how offspring are protected and nurtured
  • Consider and compare reproductive patterns in other animals with those in humans
  • Relate what they know of the way their bodies change during adolescence to knowledge about human reproduction, growth and the menstrual cycle.
At the end of this topic, pupils will:
  • Identify and name the main reproductive organs and describe their functions.
  • Describe fertilization as the function of two cell nuclei
  • Describe egg and sperm cells
  • Explain how the fetus obtains the materials it needs for growth
  • Describe the differences between the gestation periods and the independence of the young of humans and other mammals and describe the menstrual cycle.
10/11 Inheritance and Selection In this topic, pupils:
  • Explain inheritance in terms of information carried on chromosomes.
  • Explore the use of selective breeding, cloning and (higher tier only), genetic engineering, to produce plants and animals with preferred characteristics.
  • Study a selection of simple patterns of inheritance in humans:
    1. The determination of sex
    2. The inheritance both of diseases caused by dominant alleles and diseases caused by recessive alleles.
  • Examine and evaluate the hormonal control of fertility in human females.

The policy on sex and relationships education can be viewed by contacting the school.