PSHE/RSE

What is Relationships Education?

At St. Botolph’s CE Academy we follow the SCARF program  (Conran Education) for teaching RSE and PSHE.

Overview of SCARF at St Botolph’s

Our relationships Education includes the  fundamental building blocks and characteristics of positive relationships, with particular reference to friendships, family relationships, and relationships with other peers and adults. At Coram Life Education we believe that children should learn about relationships as well as the emotional, social and physical aspects of growing up, human sexuality and sexual health, in an age-appropriate way. This goes beyond learning about relationships, to include puberty, how a baby is conceived and born, body ownership, and safeguarding. Although we refer to our resources as our Relationship Education programme, they also include elements of Health Education as well as non-statutory sex education. Therefore we often refer to the content as RSE: Relationships and Sex Education.

Our RSE lessons are a key part of SCARF – our programme and resources for schools which provides much more than a PSHE scheme of work. SCARF provides the framework for a whole- school approach to improving children’s wellbeing and attainment, based on the five SCARF values of safety (S),caring (C),achievement (A), resilience (R) and friendship (F).

Our Relationships and Sex Education resources help children and young people to be safe, healthy and happy as they grow, and in their future lives. Delivered as part of PSHE (England) RSHP (Scotland) or Science, they help schools meet their current SMSC development, safeguarding, and emotional wellbeing requirements, as well as ensuring that they meet the requirements of the DfE Primary Relationships, Sex and Health Education Curriculum, and National Curriculum Science from 2020.

Overview of SCARF themes

For each year group, there are six suggested themed units which provide a complete PSHE and wellbeing curriculum. They are:

Me and My Relationships

Explores feelings and emotions, develops skills to manage conflict, helps identify our special people and equips children to recognise the qualities of healthy friendships and how to manage them.

Valuing Difference 

Includes a strong focus on British Values, supports children to develop respectful relationships with others, recognise bullying and know their responsibilities as a bystander.

Keeping Myself Safe

Covers a number of safety aspects from statutory Relationships Education including being able to identify trusted adults in their lives, what to do when faced with a dilemma and recognising appropriate and inappropriate touch. 

Rights and Responsibilities 

Explores broader topics including looking after the environment, economic education and the changing rights and responsibilities children have as they grow older.

Being My Best

Includes a focus on keeping physically healthy, developing a growth mindset to facilitate resiliency, setting goals and ways to achieve them.

Growing and Changing

Has age-appropriate plans to cover the physical and emotional changes that happen as children as they grow older, including changes at puberty and how to approach this with confidence. Age-appropriate lessons on relationships and sex education are also included.

Relationships and Sex Education

Relationships Education in primary schools should teach the fundamental building blocks and characteristics of positive relationships, with particular reference to friendships, family relationships, and relationships with other peers and adults. At Coram Life Education we believe that children should learn about relationships as well as the emotional, social and physical aspects of growing up, human sexuality and sexual health in an age-appropriate way. This goes beyond learning about relationships, to include puberty, how a baby is conceived and born, body ownership, and safeguarding. Although we refer to our resources as our Relationship Education programme, they also include elements of Health Education as well as non-statutory sex education. Therefore we often refer to this as RSE: Relationships and Sex Education.

Our Relationships and Sex Education resources help children and young people to be safe, healthy and happy, both as they grow, and in their future lives.  These lessons help to meet safeguarding, and emotional wellbeing requirements, as well as ensuring that schools cover the requirements of the DfE RSHE guidance.