MAPPERLEY PLAINS PRIMARY
SCHOOL
SEX & RELATIONSHIPS
EDUCATION
(SRE)
2015
Years 1 to 6
Curriculum Outline
MAPPERLEY PLAINS PRIMARY SCHOOL
Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) 2015
We will be teaching discreet SRE lessons during the second half of the Summer term.
In order for you to see the whole picture of how SRE will be taught in school we have
listed below how we propose to deliver the curriculum as your chid moves through
school.
Details of weekly lessons for your child’s year group have also been included as they
may help to explain why some more unusual questions are asked! And may provide
a starting point for any issues raised in lessons which you may wish to talk about at
home.
Curriculum Outline
Year 1 - Differences
This has the theme of ‘living things’, the difference between male and female, our
feelings and life cycles. In one lesson of this unit the children will be naming body
parts with the correct scientific vocabulary.
Year 2 - How Did I Get Here?
This has the theme of growing and looks at growth and change from the point of
view of the child, considering themselves as babies and thinking about their future as
adults. It also covers the growth of the foetus during pregnancy.
Year 3 - Growing Up
This has the theme ‘Where do I come from?’ and looks at life cycles, growth and
change. It also looks at relationships.
Year 4 - Changes
This explores the physical and emotional changes that take place at the onset of
puberty, and how we feel about ourselves. It considers some of the changes that are
outside our control, and the choices we face in others over which we can have
increasing control as we grow up. It reaffirms that puberty is a normal and natural
process.
Year 5 - How Babies are Born, Puberty
This discusses relationships and feelings and investigates roles and responsibilities. It
focuses on the development of the baby in the womb, the needs of the baby and the
mother before birth, and the inheritance of physical characteristics.
Year 6 - Let’s Talk About Sex, Feelings
This unit examines the development of relationships, as well as the physical changes
that take place during puberty.
Should you require any further information or wish to look at the resources we will
be using in school please let your child’s class teacher know. The DVD used is
available to loan by parents.
Year Group 1
Theme:
Differences
Lesson
Lesson Outline
1.
Male & Female
Discuss physical differences and name body parts
2.
Girls and Boys
Challenging stereotypes
3.
Growing and
Changing
Look at baby photos, discuss changes in what they
could do. Children timelines.
4.
Similarities and
Differences
Children talk about what is special about themselves
and we can all make people feel good about themselves
by being kind.
5.
Feelings
Children explore a range of uncomfortable and positive
emotions and think about how their action causes
feelings in others.
6.
Life Cycles
Introduces the idea of growth and change, and the
idea that these belong to a natural life cycle.
Year Group 2
Theme : How Did I Get Here?
Lesson
1.
What do things
come from?
Lesson outline
All living things come from other living things.
2.
Birth fact File
Children enter the world as babies at a particular time
on a particular date – this is their birth.
3.
Growing Up
Children to reflect on the changes that have taken
place already and the changes that will take place in
the future.
4.
What Can We Do?
What we can and cannot do at different ages
5.
Parts of the Body
6.
Who are we like?
Consider physical changes as we move from child to
adulthood
Babies are made by two grown up people
7.
Nine Months
Babies grow inside the mother’s womb. It takes nine
months and is called pregnancy.
8.
In the Womb
As a baby grows in the womb it develops recognisable
features and becomes active
Year Group 3
Theme Growing Up
Lesson
Whose present?
Lesson Outline
How our needs are different at
different stages of development. As we
grow we are capable of new things
Think about how they are growing and
changing and what might happen in the
future.
What can I do?
Baby Animals
Living things reproduce and females give
birth.
Family Tree
Look at relationships within the family
and extend the idea of a basic time line.
My friend
Think about relationships beyond the
family and why these are also important.
Achievements
Reflect on themselves as special people
Year Group 4
Theme Changes
Lesson
How Do We Change
Lesson Outline
Children to reflect on the physical changes
that occur during puberty. Which are
common to m/f which are particular to each.
Find a Feeling
Sort The Changes
Consider feelings and the contexts in which
positive and negative feelings are generated
Some changes as they grow they can control
others they can’t.
Inside our bodies
The organs of the human body
Big Words…. Little Words
Extend biological vocabulary
Periods - What Do You Know?
Help children understand the physical &
practical implications of periods.
Recipe for A Good Friend
Reflect upon the qualities of a good
friendship.
Year Group 5
Theme: How babies are born
Puberty
Lesson
Looking After Babies
Lesson Outline
Watch Living and Growing
Unit 2 Programme 3 Discuss
How babies grow in the womb
Looking After Babies
Looking at ways of looking after a baby
Families
Discuss the different relationships in
which we are all involved. Consider the
need for trust and love and what
happens if family units break down.
Know and understand about the physical
changes that take place at puberty
DVD Activity Sheets to establish
changes in boys and girls.
Encourage children to think about the
impact a baby has on a family.
Puberty
Building for baby
Growing and Changing
Changing Emotions
Questions and answers
Timeline activity, what happens to them
and when? Take line into the future.
Sorting out problems group activity.
Discuss feelings and actions.
Children write anonymous questions and
place them in a box to be answered.
Year Group 6
Lesson
Puberty
Body Parts
How Does A Baby Start?
Exploring Feelings
Questions in the Box
Someone to Talk To
Questions in the box
Theme Let’s Talk About Sex
Feelings
Lesson Outline
Look at and discuss the physical changes
which occur at puberty.
Growing Up DVD
Look at images of body parts. Use
correct terminology and identify
function.
Establish knowledge of children and
carry out task at appropriate level
Growing Up DVD Discuss a range of
feelings, create a class diary talk about
how we respond to other people’s
feelings and how we read them.
Take questions the children have asked
anonymously.
Help children understand the importance
of communication and identifying adults
they can trust.