RSE
At NET, we are committed to providing a high-quality, comprehensive approach to Relationships and Sex Education (RSE). We do this by combining the My Happy Mind and Jigsaw programmes.
My Happy Mind is an NHS-backed programme which focuses on science-based, preventative habits that support and promote good mental health in all children. My Happy Mind is delivered over 5 modules; each child shall experience all the modules below over the course of an academic year. Each module builds progressively, year on year, as the children continue throughout their primary school journey.
- Meet Your Brain: Understanding how your brain works and how to ensure we look after it so that we can manage our emotions and be at our best.
- Celebrate: Understanding your unique Character Strengths and learning to celebrate them.
- Appreciate: Understanding why gratitude matters and how you can develop gratitude as a habit.
- Relate: Understanding why positive relationships matter and how to build them.
- Engage: Understanding how to set meaningful goals that matter and how to stay resilient in times of challenge.
Throughout the year, the children shall also cover 3 of the Jigsaw PSHE units, which again build progressively year on year. These units are:
- Healthy Me: Understanding about physical health and mental wellbeing through lessons on topics like healthy eating, personal hygiene, exercise and staying safe (on and offline).
- Relationships: This focuses on teaching children how to form and maintain healthy, respectful relationships with themselves and others, covering topics such as friendships and families.
- Changing Me: The unit teaches children about the physical, emotional, and social changes that occur as they grow from babyhood to adulthood. It covers topics such as consent, puberty, body image and positive self-esteem.
We also recognise the current and ever-changing risks to children online. Along with the e-safety lessons, which the children cover in our RSE curriculum, the school also supplements this with further e-safety lessons using the platform ProjectEvolve. These e-safety lessons are delivered in an age appropriate manner and start from Nursery right through to Year 6.