St. John’s Primary School – Personal, Social and Health Education and RHE Curriculum 

At St. John’s Primary School we want every child to be happy and enthusiastic learners of RHE - Relationships and Health Education- and to be eager to achieve their very best in order to fulfil their God-given talents. We firmly believe that the recipe for success is high quality  teaching, which is central to the life of our happy, caring school.

In the academic year 2020/21, Relationships Education and Health Education (RHE) became statutory in all primary schools in England.  

As a Catholic school, our mission is to support the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of all of our pupils, rooted in the wisdom and teaching of the Church. The education of children in human sexuality is an important, precious and privileged responsibility.  The Church teaches us that this is very much a partnership with parents, in which parents are the ‘first educators’ of their children on these matters; ultimately, you confer on us the right to co-educate your children with you.

We have been researching various programmes that are available and have adopted Life to the Full by Ten Ten Resources. Ten Ten is an award-winning Catholic educational organisation that is well-respected and very experienced in this field of work.

Life to the Full has been approved by our diocese.  Furthermore, Ten Ten have entered into a partnership with the Catholic Education Service and the Department for Education to provide training for teachers in Catholic schools on the subject of the new statutory curriculum. Therefore, we are confident that this programme is a very good fit for our school.