At Lutterworth High School, we teach Personal, Social, Health Education as a whole-school approach to underpin students’ development as people and because we believe that this also supports their learning capacity.

We follow the PSHE association framework with age appropriate content. Some topics may be revisited each academic year but the content will be different for each year group. The learning will therefore deepen and broaden each year. 

This also supports the “Personal Development” and “Behaviour and Attitude” aspects required under the Ofsted Inspection Framework, as well as significantly contributing to the school’s Safeguarding and Equality Duties, the Government’s British Values agenda and the SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social, Cultural) development opportunities provided for our young people.

We also provide assemblies and focus days throughout the year to address topical content aimed at addressing concerns both nationally and locally to each year group.

Statutory RSE and Health Education

“The Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education (England) Regulations 2019, made under sections 34 and 35 of the Children and Social Work Act 2017, make Relationships and Sex Education compulsory for all pupils receiving secondary education… They also make Health Education compulsory in all schools except independent schools. Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) continues to be compulsory in independent schools.”                                                                                                                                                                                                       DfE Guidance p.8.

The DfE Guidance 2019 integrates Relationships and Sex Education at secondary school level.

Most of the DfE outcomes relating to Sex Education sit within the ‘Intimate and sexual relationships, including sexual health’ section of the guidance and include aspects like:

• the facts about reproductive health.
• the facts about the full range of contraceptive choices.
• how the different sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS, are transmitted.
• how to get further advice.
• consent and the law.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             DfE Guidance page 29.

Further information regarding RSE lessons that will be delivered to students is shared with parents ahead of time.

Course Overview

The PSHE Association Programme covers all areas of PSHE for the secondary phase including statutory RSE and Health Education. 

Opt out policy

“Parents have the right to request that their child be withdrawn from some or all of sex education delivered as part of statutory RSE…

… except in exceptional circumstances, the school should respect the parents’ request to withdraw the child, up to and until three terms before the child turns 16. After that point, if the child wishes to receive sex education rather than be withdrawn, the school should make arrangements to provide the child with sex education during one of those Terms”.

DfE Guidance pages 17/18.