The Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) curriculum at Mountain Ash Comprehensive follows Welsh Government guidance and covers broad and interlinked learning strands:-
• relationships and identity
• sexual health and well-being
• empowerment, safety and respect.
We cover the following themes in RSE: relationships; rights and equity; sex, gender and sexuality; bodies and body image; sexual health and well-being; and violence, safety and support. These themes are interwoven into the learning strands above. Our curriculum content is inclusive and reflects diversity. It seeks to develop learners’ awareness and understanding of different identities, views and values and a diversity of relationships, gender and sexuality, including LGBTQ+ lives.
Learning about rights and equity runs through all the strands, as well as embedding learning and experience through a rights-based approach to the learning. Our school is currently working to achieve the Rights Respecting School Bronze Award and
Our curriculum is carefully tailored, making connections and developing authentic contexts for learning across the curriculum.
We take care to ensure that our programme is developmentally appropriate for our learners and we have worked closely with parents and learners to adjust the content over the last few years to build a curriculum that suits the children at MACS. We take account of a range of factors including learners’ ages, knowledge and maturity, any additional learning needs and anticipating their physiological and emotional development.
Our RSE programme is taught by a small team of staff and through the use of drop-down days across the year, when specialist agencies come into school to run workshops and training for our learners.
Any queries regarding the RSE programme should be directed to our Leader of Learning for Personal Development, Health and Wellbeing: Mrs H.Hooper-Williams or our Deputy Leader of Learning for Personal Development, Health and Wellbeing: Mr.C.Badman.
