RHE
St Michael and St John’s RC Primary considers that Relationships and Health Education (RHE) is an integral part of the Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) and Citizenship curriculum, and has links to that through Science. We aim to offer pupils a carefully planned programme on human development, relationships, sexuality and family life within a safe and comfortable atmosphere, delivered to the pupils by their teachers. The programme is set within a moral framework and matched to the pupils’ level of maturity. We aim to encourage the development of the ‘fully alive’ person in each area of their relationships. We do this in the context of supporting parents as the first educators of their children.
To grow in friendship with themselves
- to know that they are uniquely loved
- to appreciate their personal worth and talents
- to recognise and positively respond to their limitations
- to respect and care for themselves
- to make informed choices and accept personal responsibility
- to understand their physical development respecting and reverencing the wonder of their bodies
To grow in friendship with others
- to know that others are also uniquely loved
- to deepen their appreciation of their relationship with their parents
- to appreciate and respect the worth and talents of others
- to respect the beliefs, values and cultures of others
- to develop friendships and positive relationships
- to cope with difficulties in relationships
- to understand and appreciate the wonder of human love and the creation of new human life
- to understand their social responsibilities
- to enable them to become responsible citizens
- to encourage a progressive understanding and engagement in commitment
To grow in friendship with the world around
- to appreciate the goodness of creation as loved by God
- to appreciate the wonder of the beauty of the natural world
- to learn to respect and care for the natural world
- to understand the importance of our natural environment and grow in understanding for our responsibility for it
To grow in friendship with God
- to appreciate that God loves us first and forever
- to appreciate and value relationship with God as integral to human fulfilment
- to appreciate the whole of creation as a sign of God’s love
- to develop their personal relationship with God through prayer and meditation
- to develop their relationship with God through shared prayer and worship.