Relationships Education and Relationships and Sex Education (mandatory)
HFL Education support for Relationships and Sex Education in the curriculum
The HFL Education Wellbeing team offer schools, academies and MATs training opportunities and consultancy services aimed to equip staff with the knowledge and teaching strategies to deliver the curriculum well.
- training for new subject leaders
- training to build staff knowledge and confidence to teach effective puberty and sex education
- annual conference to highlight best practice
- training in fully inclusive RSHE
- consultancy support in meting needs of parents and carers
- a full review process for PSHE – One day in school plus report
- a policy review service – written feedback and support phone call
Please contact wellbeing@hfleducation.org for more information.
Useful resources
This resource was been produced by the Wellbeing Team at HfL at the request of the CCSU to support schools in recognising and addressing National Hate Crime Awareness week in 2021.
The resource provides age-appropriate activities for KS2 pupils (Years 5 & 6) as well as KS3 and 4 students. These activities have also been linked to the RSHE curriculum.
The resource addresses the following topics by helping young people to explore:
- hate crime
- hate incidents
- the law and hate crime
- reporting hate crime
- understanding and empathy
The ‘Expect Respect’ healthy relationships toolkit, has been developed by Women’s Aid in partnership with Yves Saint Laurent, to educate children and young adults about intimate partner violence, with a commitment of reaching the global goal to educate 2 million people by 2030 through the Abuse is Not Love campaign.
The prevention toolkit will help schools to lead sessions around healthy relationships for children and young people aged 4yrs to 18yrs. It contains age-appropriate activities that can be used in a range of spaces and will help you to hold conversations about the root cause of violence.
Each session in the toolkit is designed to be active, fun and engaging, but also challenging. Whilst not all of the session plans raise domestic abuse directly, they have been written using themes found to be effective in tackling domestic abuse.
You can find out more on the Women’s Aid website:
Practical training materials for primary and secondary schools to use to train staff to teach about being safe.
The abortion care factsheet is a free resource for professionals in secondary schools to use in relationships and sex education (RSE) lessons. It aims to ensure that professionals involved in educating young people have a factually accurate, unbiased and evidence-based source of information about abortion in the UK.
The aim of the campaign is to prevent young people, both boys and girls aged 12 to 18 years old, from becoming perpetrators and victims of abusive relationships.
The Home Office have produced a range of partner support materials to help you use the resources with the young people that you work with and promote it within your local area. These include posters, social media assets and materials developed specifically for LGBT young people.
Campaign assets are available to download from:
Jigsaw PSHE is a comprehensive PSHE Programme from Foundation 1 and 2 up to year 6. The scheme of work provides a structured and developmental PSHE programme focused on building emotional literacy and social skills within a whole-school approach. It places mindfulness at the heart of its lessons using calm me sections of its lessons. Over 60 schools in Hertfordshire are currently using this resource. For further information please see:
PSHE Association: Programme of Study for PSHE Education (Key stages 1–5)
'Teaching SRE with Confidence in Secondary Schools’ from CWP Resources has the PSHE Association Quality Mark.
These resources coupled with their primary resources offer schools a robust set of lesson plans and resources to support teachers delivering Sex and Relationship Education Lessons. Visit the CWP website for more information on the resource and how to order:
Already being used in over 42 counties across the UK, this interactive bank of life skills resources has been created to support PSHE, SMSC development, and safeguarding, and has recently been updated to support the new statutory changes in Health Education and Relationships Education.
The 5-8 and 8-11 primary programmes have been fully kitemarked by the PSHE Association.
The Sex Education Forum has guidance and teaching resources for RSE for primary and secondary school teachers, parents and those working in special schools.
“The DO… resources can help you build a solid framework for a quality RSE programme. They have been created to help you work with your colleagues to make a real difference in your school.”
DO... : Free, inspiring teaching resources
HfL run training for tutor teams or year groups PSHE Teams on using high quality SRE and the DO SRE lesson plans and activities. Get in touch with shelagh.jennings@hfleducation.org