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Relationships and Sex Education at Browick Road Primary & Nursery School

In July 2025, the government updated its guidance regarding the delivery of Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education (RSHE) in schools. This guidance is available HERE. Our RSHE Policy is available on the policy section of our website HERE.

At Browick Road Primary & Nursery School, we aim to provide children with the knowledge and skills they need to stay safe, healthy and prepared for life in modern Britain.

Relationships Education and Health Education are statutory parts of the primary curriculum. Some aspects of human development and reproduction are also taught through the National Curriculum for Science.

Teaching is carefully planned to be age-appropriate and delivered sensitively by trained staff in a safe and supportive environment.

In the following sections, you can find further information about how our Science and RSHE units are covered. Please note that the Science curriculum is statutory.

RSHE lessons are delivered in a safe, supportive and age-appropriate environment. Ground rules are established within lessons and pupils are reminded of trusted adults they can speak to if they have worries or concerns.

Staff follow the school’s safeguarding procedures at all times and answer questions in a factual and sensitive manner appropriate to the age and developmental stage of the children.

Within the National Curriculum, teachers are given guidelines to ensure the required content is covered. 

In Year 1, children should be taught to:

  • identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense

In Year 2, children should be taught to:

  • observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants
  • notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults

In Year 3, children should be taught to:

  • explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal

No specific RSHE-related Science content is listed in the National Curriculum for Year 4.

In Year 5, children should be taught to:

  • describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird
  • describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals
  • describe the changes as humans develop to old age

In Year 6, children should be taught to:

  • recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents

To make sure this information is covered appropriately, we deliver Science using a scheme of work from the CUSP (Curriculum with Unity Schools Partnership) offering. The following units cover the National Curriculum guidance and are briefly outlined including vocabulary used.  If you require more information about any of these units, please get in touch with Mrs Malthouse our Science and RSHE lead.

Year 2: Animals including humans

Lesson 2: How do animals change as they mature?

  • Life cycle of a chicken
  • Life cycle of a butterfly
  • Discussion of frogs’ eggs and butterfly eggs, plus larval and pupal stages
  • Use of vocabulary: reproduce, offspring, metamorphosis

Lesson 3: How do we change as we mature?

  • Discussion of the stages of a human’s life: baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult, older adult

Year 2: Plants

Lesson 1: How do seeds germinate and what happens?

  • Discussion around simple germination

Lesson 2: What happens when bulbs sprout?

  • Discussion around the plant maturing

Year 3: Plants

Lesson 1: What are the parts of a flowering plant? What do they do?

  • Labelling the parts of a flowering plant, including flower, leaves, stem (trunk), roots
  • Discussion of pollination as part of the process of seed production

Lesson 5: What do flowers do?

  • Discussion around attracting insects to cause pollination and create seeds
  • Discussion of male (stamen, anther, filament) and female (pistil, stigma, style, ovule, ovary) parts of a plant
  • Vocabulary used: reproduction (the process of producing babies, young animals or plants)

Lesson 6: What is pollination?

  • Learning about how pollination happens, revisiting the parts of a plant.

Year 5: Animals Including Humans

Lesson 1: What is the human timeline?

  • Use of vocabulary: embryo, foetus, baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult, older adult, womb, natal (in terms of pre-natal and post-natal), fertilisation, human, puberty (in terms of characteristics of development)
  • Discussion of foetal development

Lesson 2: How do we change into adults?

  • Use of vocabulary: adolescence, adolescents, youth, puberty, breasts, pubic hair, underarm hair, chemical changes, emotional changes, spots (skin blemishes & acne), hormones, body odour, unexplained mood swings, testicles, scrotum, penis, glands, semen, nocturnal ejaculations (wet dreams), facial hair, bladder, menstruation, periods, blood, menopause, vagina, female reproductive system, uterus, ovary, cervix, fallopian tube, hips widen, voice deepens.
  • Discussion of appropriate ages for life events such as living by yourself, having a baby, getting married, etc.

Lesson 3: How does human and animal gestation and lifespan compare?

  • Use of vocabulary: human gestation period, African elephant gestation period, fertilisation, womb, born (when discussing patterns of gestation), puberty, birth, foetal stage, sex organs differentiate (in terms of the gestation of a human)
  • Discussion of seahorses and sea dragons and how the male produces the young
  • Discussion of the comparative lengths of gestation periods

Living Things and Their Habitats

Lesson 1: Life Cycles: what’s the difference between a mammal and an amphibian?

  • Use of vocabulary: sexual reproduction, embryo, womb, give birth, mother’s milk, young, adolescents, adolescence, reproduce, mature, frogs’ eggs, larvae, tadpoles, metamorphosis, offspring
  • Discussion of the difference between sexual reproduction (organism makes more of itself using two sex cells, two parents (male and female)) and asexual reproduction (organism makes more of itself without sex cells from another organism)
  • Comparing the life cycles of a mammal and an amphibian

Lesson 2: Life Cycles: what’s the difference between an insect and a bird?

  • Use of vocabulary: sexual reproduction, larvae, pupa, biochemical change, hatch, incubator, premature, fertilised and unfertilised eggs, metamorphosis

Lesson 5: The Science of Life: How do living things reproduce?

  • Use of vocabulary: genes, reproduction, types of reproduction (sexual, asexual), male, female, male and female cells combine, variation, sperm, egg, breeding (in relation to animals)
  • Discussion of the difference between sexual reproduction (organism makes more of itself using two sex cells, two parents (male and female)) and asexual reproduction (organism makes more of itself without sex cells from another organism)
  • Sexual reproduction discussion: many animals, including humans, reproduce in this way and the vocabulary egg (female), sperm (male) and fertilisation (female and male sex cells combine).
  • Asexual reproduction discussion: an organism can reproduce without receiving cells from another, all genetic material comes from one parent, so offspring are similar or genetically identical
  • Discussion around why multiple sperm are released, instead of just one, to potentially fertilise an egg.

Lesson 6: Plants: what’s the life process of reproduction?

  • Use of vocabulary: sexual reproduction, pollination, male & female reproductive cells (pollen and ovule), asexual reproduction

Year 6: Evolution and Inheritance

Lesson 3: What is DNA and what does it do?

  • Use of vocabulary: DNA, molecules, genes, genes hold biological instructions that can be passed from parents to their children.

Lesson 4: Are all offspring identical to their parents?

  • Use of vocabulary: reproduction, asexual (direct copy from one parent, cloning, identical) and sexual (two parents, variation in species, inheritable characteristics), diversity
  • Sexual reproduction discussion: many animals, including humans, reproduce in this way and the vocabulary egg (female), sperm (male) and fertilisation (female and male sex cells combine), discussion around inherited characteristics
  • Asexual reproduction discussion: an organism can reproduce without receiving cells from another, all genetic material comes from one parent, so offspring are similar or genetically identical

Our chosen RSHE Curriculum

To cover RSE (Relationships & Sex Education) and PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education), we have chosen a curriculum that covers both. This curriculum is provided by the Oak National Academy and is referred to as RSHE (combining the elements of PSHE and RSE).

The Key Stage 1 curriculum can be seen in full HERE

The Key Stage 2 curriculum can be seen in full HERE

Within this curriculum, there are specific strands running through KS1 and KS2. 

Within KS1, the strands are:

  • Relationships
  • Community
  • Online Safety
  • Wellbeing.

Within KS2, the strands are the same but with an added strand of Growing Up.

Please find below a list of the individual lessons within our RSHE curriculum. Clicking on each unit name will take you to the resources your child’s teacher will be using. Each unit has individual lessons.  For each lesson, there are lesson slides, lesson details, an example video of the lesson presentation, a worksheet and quizzes.

Relationships

Within the strand of ‘Relationships’, there are several lessons across KS1 and KS2.

Year 1 Units

Healthy Relationships: Who’s in my family?

Healthy Relationships: What makes a good friend?

Power in Relationships: When do I feel safe?

Year 2 Units

Healthy Relationships: What does a family look like?

Power in Relationships: Should I keep secrets?

Healthy Relationships: How can we stop bullying?

Year 3 Units

Healthy Relationships: How can I help my family?

Healthy Relationships: Are friendships ever perfect?

Power in Relationships: Who does my body belong to?

Year 4 Units

Healthy Relationships: Do all families look the same?

Healthy Relationships: Are all friends the same?

Power in Relationships: What does a healthy relationship feel like?

Year 5 Units

Healthy Relationships: Is there such a thing as a perfect family?

Healthy Relationships: How can I be a great friend?

Power in Relationships: How do I get help if I don’t feel safe?

Year 6 Units

Healthy Relationships: How can we live in harmony?

Healthy Relationships: How can we have healthy boundaries?

Power in Relationships: What are my boundaries?

Community

Within the ‘Community’ strand there are lessons in KS1 and KS2.

Year 1 Unit

Communities: Who am I? Who are you?

Year 2 Unit

Communities: Who is in my community?

Year 3 Unit

Communities: What does it mean to be British?

Year 4 Unit

Communities: How are we all different?

Year 5 Unit

Communities: How can we ensure fairness and respect for women and girls?

Year 6 Unit

Communities: How can we show respect to people of different races and cultures?

Online Safety

Within the strand of ‘Online Safety’, there are several lessons across KS1 and KS2 (some of this learning may be done through Computing instead).

Year 1 Units

Media Influence: How do I decide what to do online?

Our Online Lives: What should I do if I feel safe online?

Year 2 Units

Media Influence: Is everything I see online true?
Our Online Lives: Who should I talk to online?

Year 3 Units

Media Influence: How do I keep myself safe online?

Our Online Lives: How can I be kind and happy online?

Year 4 Units

Media Influence: What is fake news?

Our Online Lives: How do I decide who to trust online?

Year 5 Units

Media Influence: Who decides what I experience in the online world?

Our Online Lives: How do I thrive online?

Year 6 Units

Media Influence: How do I decide what is true online?

Our Online Lives: What should I share online?

Wellbeing

Within the strand of ‘Wellbeing’, there are several lessons across KS1 and KS2. As part of the ‘Wellbeing’ strand, there are some lessons on physical health and some of the Physical Health learning may be done through PE.

Year 1 Units

Emotions:  How do I feel today?

Physical Health: How can I look after my body?

Staying Safe and Healthy: How can I look after my body?

Year 2 Units

Emotions: What helps me to be happy?

Physical Health: How do I eat a balanced diet?
Risky Substances: How do I stay safe at home?

Staying Safe and Healthy: How can I take responsibility for my health?

Year 3 Units

Emotions: How can I manage my emotions?

Physical Health: How can I get active and eat well every day?

Staying Safe and Healthy: How can I stay safe while out and about?

Year 4 Units

Emotions: How can we add to our emotions toolkit?

Physical Health: What makes a balanced lifestyle?

Staying Safe and Healthy: How do I avoid getting ill?

Year 5 Units

Emotions: How can we manage challenges?

Physical Health: Is it hard to be healthy?

Risky Substances: Why do people get addicted?

Staying Safe and Healthy: How can I avoid harm?

Year 6 Units

Emotions: How can we manage our emotions through periods of change?

Physical Health: How do I plan a healthy week?

Risky Substances: Why do people use alcohol and drugs?

Staying Safe and Healthy: How can I save a life?

Growing Up

Within the strand of ‘Growing Up’, there are several lessons within KS2 across two units. Please note that the teaching of puberty, in particular menstruation, has moved from Year 5 to Year 4. Girls can start puberty as young as 8 and we want to ensure they are informed appropriately.

Year 4 Unit

Puberty: How will I change as I grow up?

Year 6 Unit

Puberty: What happens during adolescence?

Parental Right to Withdraw

Parents do not have the right to withdraw their child from:

  • Statutory Relationships Education
  • Health Education
  • National Curriculum Science

Our chosen curriculum does not include any additional sex education beyond the requirements of National Curriculum Science, Relationships Education and Health Education.

Parents are encouraged to contact Browick Road Primary & Nursery School if they wish to discuss the curriculum further.

8-12 Browick Road, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 0QW

Telephone: 01953 603061

When you contact the school, your enquiry will be dealt with by a member of our administration team: Miss Paula Bilverstone (School Administrator), Miss Julie Clarke (Finance Officer) or Mrs. Hannah Jones (Administration Assistant).
Email: office@browickroad.norfolk.sch.uk

SENDCo: Miss Vicki Wild
Email: senco@browickroad.norfolk.sch.uk

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