Dear Parents/Carers,
As a part of your child’s educational experience at Brooke School, we aim to promote personal wellbeing and development through a comprehensive taught programme of Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education that gives children and young people the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills to live healthy, safe, independent, fulfilled and happy lives, both now and in the future.
The Department for Education made changes to relationships and sex education following a nationwide consultation which came into effect from September 2020 and all schools were required to comply with the updated requirements. The statutory guidance can be found at:
The guidance focuses on healthy relationships and keeping children safe in the modern world. It also covers a wide range of topics relating to physical and mental health, wellbeing, safeguarding and healthy relationships which for secondary aged learners includes ‘intimate and sexual relationships, including sexual health’.
Learning about the emotional, social and physical aspects of growing up will give children and young people the information, skills and positive values to have safe, fulfilling relationships and help them take responsibility for their own well-being. Since our Ofsted inspection in May 2022 we have been working hard to improve our PSHE curriculum, implementing new long term plans based on the PSHE Association Planning Framework for Pupils with SEND. The website for which can be found via the following link:
https://pshe-association.org.uk/resource/planning-framework-pupils-with-send.
We are currently reviewing our ‘PSHE, Including Relationship and Sex Education, Policy’ and as part of this process we would like to invite parents/carers to take part in a consultation. Below you will find a draft copy of the revised PSHE Policy to read through and a short questionnaire based around the information provided in the policy. As a school we value the importance of parents/carers in their child/young persons life and education and hope to see as many parents/carers as possible join this consultation.
This will be followed up with a parent workshop on a date to be confirmed in the Spring term to further explain our PSHE curriculum and respond to any issues or questions raised in the questionnaire.
Draft PSHE, Including Relationship and Sex Education, Policy
PSHE Consultation Questionnaire (Closed 26/1/2024)