Dear Parent/Carers,
Please see setials below of the school’s Relationships and Sexuality Education Programme.
The school is involved in relationships and sexuality education precisely because of our Christian beliefs about God and about the human person. The belief in the unique dignity of the human person made in the image and likeness of God underpins the approach to all education in a Catholic school. Our approach to RSE therefore is rooted in the Catholic Church’s teaching of the human person and presented in a positive framework of Christian ideals.
RSE will be firmly embedded in the Personal Development & Mutual Understanding (PDMU) and the Religious Education (RE) Curriculum as it is concerned with nurturing human wholeness and integral to the physical, spiritual, emotional, moral, social and intellectual development of pupils. It is centred on Christ’s vision of being human as good news and will be positive and prudent, showing the potential for development, while enabling the dangers and risks involved to be understood and appreciated.
RSE Teaching Resources will:
- Reflect the ethos of the school
- Be age appropriate, inclusive and sensitive to the pupils’ needs and experiences and
- Be factually accurate, up to date and make clear distinctions between fact and opinion.
Inappropriate images will not be used under any circumstances and we will ensure that we protect pupils from accessing unsuitable material on the internet. We will inform parents or carers about any materials that pupils will be exposed to particularly if these are of a sensitive nature.
The main resource that we will use to teach RSE in school is called ‘Flourish’. This resource has been developed by the Council for Catechetics of the Irish Bishops Conference, with the support of CPSMA. Please click the links below to see the detail of the lessons taught each year across the school.
Teachers will inform you the day before lessons are taught so that you can discuss the lesson with your child as appropriate.