Intent

At West Row Academy, we want to help our children develop into tolerant, respectful and healthy young people.

We intend to give our pupils the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills to live healthy, safe, productive and fulfilled lives, both now and in the future. We intend to help them take responsibility for their own wellbeing and prepare them for life in the society of Modern Britain and enabling every child to develop and progress in terms of their social, moral, spiritual and cultural development.

We shape our PSHE lessons to ensure they are inclusive and discursive and aim to help children understand how they are developing personally and socially, as well as discussing moral, social and cultural issues that are a part of growing up.

Through Quality First Teaching we:

• Help child gain the skills and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy and safe
• Provide opportunities for children to openly discuss opinions and ideas
• Reflect our school values and beliefs, as well as traditional British Values
• Make direct links between our local and national communities
• Develop children’s vocabulary, reasoning skills and understanding of the world around them to prepare them to be resilient citizens of the future
• Prepare and encourage children to be ambitious within their futures

LORIC

We have high ambitions for all of our pupils and aim to provide an inspirational, challenging and supportive environment where children can excel, no matter what their age, need or background. We implement the PiXL Primary Edge to support this.

This is a programme of attributes and skills to develop key life skills we all need in order to be successful at home, primary school and secondary school. We call this programme LORIC (Leadership, Organisation, Resilience, Initiative, Communication).

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)

As part of your child’s education experience at West Row Academy, we aim to promote personal wellbeing and development through a comprehensive taught programme of Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education.

This will give our pupils the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills to live healthy, safe, productive and fulfilled lives, both now and in the future. It will help them take responsibility for their own wellbeing.

The Department for Education has made changes to relationship and sex education following nationwide consultation which came into effect from September 2020. All schools are required to comply with this updated guidance.

The statutory guidance can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education

This guidance focuses on healthy relationships and keeping children safe in the modern world. It covers a wide range of topics relating to physical and mental health, wellbeing, safeguarding and healthy relationships.

Find out more about Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) at West Row Academy.