This policy contains information on how our school will meet its legal duties, with which schools must comply, when teaching Relationships Education and Health Education.

Our school Values are:-

• Care

• Respect

• Learn

• Succeed

These core values underpin everything we do.

At Wellfield Infant and Nursery School we strive to provide the best education for the children in our care, we provide:

• • a safe, caring, supportive stimulating learning environment;

  • a team of respectful, tolerant, open minded citizens;

  • a community where everyone aspires to be the very best they can be;

  • a community of resilient lifelong learners;

  • a nurturing environment, where all achieve success

This policy has been written in accordance with the statutory guidance from the Department for Education issued under Section 80A of the Education Act 2002 and section 403 of the Education Act 1996. This policy contains information on how our school will meet its legal duties, with which schools must comply, when teaching Relationships Education and Health Education.

We have based our school’s Relationship & Health Education Policy on the DFES Guidance, July 2019.

“In primary schools, we want the subjects to put in place the key building blocks of healthy, respectful relationships, focusing on family and friendships, in all contexts, including online. This will sit alongside the essential understanding of how to be healthy.”

“Teaching about mental wellbeing is central to these subjects, especially as a priority for parents is their children’s happiness.”

“All of this content should support the wider work of schools in helping to foster pupil wellbeing and develop resilience and character that we know are fundamental to pupils being happy, successful and productive members of society. Central to this is pupils’ ability to believe that they can achieve goals, both academic and personal; to stick to tasks that will help them achieve those goals, even when the reward may be distant or uncertain; and to recover from knocks and challenging periods in their lives.” (DFES Statutory guidance July 2019)