RSE - Summer Term

At Melbourne Junior School we believe that effective Sex and Relationship Education is essential for young people to make responsible and well-informed decisions in their lives. It will be known as RSE and the RSE programme is integrated into the PSHE curriculum within the school. This promotes positive behaviour, good mental health and wellbeing, resilience and achievement, helping children to stay safe online, develop healthy and safe relationships, making sense of media messages, challenging extreme views and having the skills and attributes to negotiate and assert themselves now and in the future.

Year 3 lessons                      

Growing and Changing 

• Different types of relationships (Relationship Tree)
• Appropriate touch and NSPCC PANTS (Body Space)
• When to keep a secret and when not to (Secret or Surprise?)

Keeping Myself Safe 

• Smoking and alcohol (Alcohol and Cigarettes: the facts)
• Medicines (Help or Harm?) 

Year 4 lessons

Growing and Changing 

• Changes and feelings (Moving House and My feelings are all over the place)
• Body parts and Puberty (All Change)
• When to keep a secret and when not to (Secret or Surprise?)
• Puberty and menstruation (Preparing for periods and My Changing Body)
• Marriage and relationships (Together)

Keeping Myself Safe 

• Smoking and alcohol (Know the norms)
• Medicines (Medicines: check the label) 

Year 5 lessons

Growing and Changing 

• Emotions (How are they Feeling?)
• Trust and appropriate touch (Taking notice of our Feelings)
• Body parts, puberty and hygiene (Changing Bodies, Feelings & Growing Up and Changing Bodies)
• Dealing with changing emotions (Help! I'm a teenager - get me out of here!)
• When to keep a secret and when not to (Dear Ash)
• Stereotypes and prejudice (Stop, Start, Stereotypes)

Keeping Myself Safe 

• Drugs (What sort of drug is…? & Drugs: it’s the law)
• Alcohol (Alcohol: What is normal?)

​Year 6 lessons

Growing and Changing 

• Emotions and dealing with them (Helpful or unhelpful? Managing change)
• Body image, stereotypes and media (I look great! & Media Manipulation)
• Pressure and appropriate touch (Pressure Online)
• Body parts, puberty and hygiene (Is this normal?)
• Conception and pregnancy (Making Babies)

Keeping Myself Safe 

• Drugs (Drugs: True or False?)
• Smoking (Smoking: What is normal?)

To help support the delivery of RSE, follow the link to find some resources you may find useful:

Helping your children understand changes at puberty (coramlifeeducation.org.uk) 

Also, the following books are recommended: