Y6 SRE Lessons

Dear Parents/Guardians of Year 6,
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Sex and Relationship Education

As part of the school’s Personal, Social and Health Education programme your child will soon receive lessons on relationships and puberty. 
 
The purpose of Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) is to provide knowledge and understanding of how the human body changes during puberty and about relationships based on love and respect.
If young people can start their transition into adulthood with good information and the confidence and knowledge to understand what is happening to them, they will hopefully grow into confident and healthy adults able to make positive choices. This can start with learning the basics about growing up and the sessions in school may reinforce what you are already doing at home.
 
The SRE programme includes watching a series of videos from BBC Active and input from the class teachers.  All teaching materials are appropriate to the age and emotional maturity of the pupils concerned and the teachers will aim to present the programme in an objective, balanced and sensitive manner.
 
The programme will cover:

• Growing up and the physical changes associated with it.
• The cycle of life, from birth to death.
• Feelings, respecting other people's feelings and managing our own

Parents can withdraw their children from all or part of sex and relationship education that does not form part of the statutory National Curriculum. 

If you wish to withdraw your child from all or part of the school’s sex and relationship education programme, please email to your child’s class teacher before the programme starts. Emails are [email protected] and [email protected]. Class teachers in Year 6 will begin the programme Thursday 17th June 2021.

Yours sincerely,
 
 
Miss Bjorck / Mrs Bowden / Mrs Orr / Mrs Chapman -Allen