Aims

• Enable children to understand how to keep themselves and others safe
• Develop the personal skills needed by pupils for them to establish and maintain relationships, to recognise what a healthy relationship looks like, to form healthy relationships, ensuring respect and dignity for themselves and others
• Explore how to live well together, including behaving well towards others, disagreeing well, forgiving and repairing broken relationships
• Develop the skills to express their own views and make their own informed decisions, providing a framework in which sensitive discussions can take place
• Help pupils develop feelings of self-worth, self-respect, confidence and empathy, to cherish themselves and others as unique and wonderfully made
• Create a positive culture around issues of sexuality and relationships
• Teach pupils the correct vocabulary to describe themselves and their bodies
• Prepare pupils for puberty, by giving them an understanding of the importance of health and hygiene
• Enable children to make responsible and informed decisions about their health and well-being.