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If you’d like to find out more about RSE and how DO… can help you introduce an effective programme to your school, you could try our self-assessment. you build an effective programme in your school, you could try our self-assessment. can help you deliver relevant, engaging lessons for your students, you could try our self-assessment.
Your answers to the questions below will generate instant results, which will highlight some useful resources.
1 Relationships and sex education gives young people essential life skills. How much have you read about the long-term benefits of quality RSE for students and the communities they live in?
2 When time is short, keeping up-to-date with key judgments can be challenging. Would you like organised and easy to access information on what’s required of schools when it comes to RSE?
3 It can be difficult to give RSE the prominence it deserves in the curriculum. Are you confident you have everything you need to start or continue to evaluate your schools provision of RSE?
4 The DO… programme provides all levels of the school faculty with an ‘approach’ to teaching RSE. Are you aware of how it could help you go beyond the basics?
5 DO… can help RSE teachers with insightful resources and lesson plans. Do you think your currently appointed RSE teacher has the support they need to give it the attention it deserves? Sufficient training can help teachers feel better prepared for RSE. How confident do you feel about preparing engaging RSE lessons and discussing challenging topics when they come up?
6 It takes time and effort to review and update RSE polices. Would you like more information on how to help make your structure, whole-school approach and content work together more easily?
7 Research has shown young people need help when it comes to local RSE support services. Would you like to know more about how you can help the students in your school?
Your personalised results
We’re pleased to hear you’re interested in DO…
It’s good to see you’re keen on doing all you can to introduce quality RSE to your school, to ensure your students have access to essential information about relationships and sex.
DO… and the ‘whole-school approach’ can help you make great RSE happen in your school, with practical and inspiring resources that are also compliant with statutory requirements.
Your responses have helped to evaluate the key areas you’re interested in, so we’ve highlighted the resources that are most relevant to you, but of course you can take a look at the other PDFs whenever you'd like to.
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- The long-term benefits of quality RSE for students and the communities they live in
- What’s required of schools when it comes to RSE
- Giving RSE the prominence it deserves in the curriculum
- The ‘whole-school approach’ and how it could make RSE in your school more relevant
- Giving teachers the support they need to give RSE the attention it deserves
- Review and update your policy to give your school the kind of RSE it needs
- More about what you can do to make great RSE happen
When it comes to quality RSE – it seems you’re up to speed
We’re pleased to hear you’re confident the students in your school are getting the sex and relationship education they want and need, and that you’ve heard about DO… and the ‘whole-school approach’.
If you know of anyone who might be interested in how DO… can help them introduce quality RSE to their school, with practical and inspiring resources that are also compliant with statutory regulations, it would be great if you could refer them to our website.
1 The long-term benefits of quality RSE for students and the communities they live in
Discover the evidence
The importance of RSE to young people is supported by an overwhelming amount of evidence. In this resource, you will find a snapshot of the research and data out there that will emphasise what an effective programme from DO… can help achieve.
Content includes:
- Why is RSE so important?
- Are schools and our stakeholders aware of its importance?
- If understanding isn’t the main problem, what is?
- Why are we, as school leaders, best placed to improve RSE?
- What can good RSE mean for your school?
2 What’s required of schools when it comes to RSE
Understand the requirements
An exploration of current Ofsted key judgements of ‘Behaviour and Safety’ changed in September 2015 to ‘Personal Development, Behaviour and Welfare’. This resource will help you understand how the DO… RSE Programme can play an important role in helping your school meet this judgement.
Content includes:
- What do Ofsted changes mean for your school?
- How will Ofsted measure this new key judgement in relation to RSE?
- What steps can you take to ensure your school meets the new key judgement?
- How RSE can contribute to good personal development, behaviour and welfare
3 Giving RSE the prominence it deserves in the curriculum
Build an effective RSE programme
An exploration of the compulsory topics and an overview of how the DO… resources can help you build the foundations for great RSE in your school.
Content includes:
- Current RSE in secondary schools
- Make great RSE happen in your school with DO…
4 The ‘whole-school approach’ and how it could make RSE in your school more relevant
The whole-school approach
A whole-school approach to RSE can help ensure that its values, behaviours and skills pervade your school’s ethos, environment and culture for both staff and students. This resource will help you build or expand your whole-school approach to ensure that RSE is able to support everyone.
Content includes:
- What is a whole-school approach to RSE?
- What are the benefits of a whole-school approach to RSE?
- How to build an effective whole-school approach
Work in collaboration
A whole-school approach to RSE can help ensure that its values, behaviours and skills pervade your school’s ethos, environment and culture for both staff and students. This resource will help you build or expand your whole-school approach to ensure that RSE is able to support everyone.
Content includes:
- What is a whole-school approach to RSE?
- What are the benefits of a whole-school approach to RSE?
- How to build an effective whole-school approach
5 Giving teachers the support they need to give RSE the attention it deserves
Inspire great teachers
The teachers in your school are the key to great RSE, but some of them need support and encouragement. This resource will help you identify teachers who have the potential to drive great RSE in school and inspire their colleagues to get involved; at DO… we call these teachers RSE champions.
Content includes:
- What issues do RSE teachers currently face?
- What makes a great RSE teacher?
- How to identify, train and support RSE champions in your school
Enhance your content
Your colleagues are the key to great RSE, this resource will help you identify those who have the potential to drive great RSE in your school and inspire others to get involved.
Content includes:
- What issues do RSE teachers currently face?
- What makes a great RSE teacher?
- How to identify, train and support RSE champions in your school
Self reflection exercises
Give your colleagues the support they might need to tackle challenging topics, opinions and questions that may arise while teaching RSE. These self-reflection exercises are designed to be used ahead of the RSE lesson, sharing them with your colleagues can help them feel more comfortable about preparing and delivering quality RSE. The skills, values and attitudes great RSE develops are both essential and highly rewarding for both teachers and students. If we all reflect on personal feelings about sex, relationships, education and society – before entering the classroom – it can greatly enhance RSE lessons.
Content includes:
- Why we need to shift the focus of RSE
- Teaching RSE
- Self-reflection exercises:
- Relationships and your sex education
- Hot topics
- What is 'sex'?
- Why do people have sex?
- Why do people have romantic relationships?
- Further training and support
Lesson guidance
In the classroom – lesson guidance
This resource contains useful advice and techniques for quality RSE delivery and covers topics like establishing ground rules, confidentiality and support for students.
Content includes:
- Establishing a group agreement (ground rules)
- Confidentiality and young people
- Different learning methods
- Different learning needs
- Start where they are at – age appropriateness
- Embedding gender and sexual diversity – not just adding it on
- Promote tolerance and respect for difference and diversity
- Faith and values
- Use of language
- Asking and answering questions
- Assessment and evaluation
- Supporting young people in accessing services
Lesson plan 1: Let's start with you
How the way we feel about ourselves can affect our relationships.
We need to look after ourselves and the people in our lives’
Lesson plan 2: What is expected of you
A look at rules associated with relationships and sex.
Society creates expectations based on gender
Different kinds of healthy relationships can nurture us
Lesson plan 4: Communication, consent and sex
The importance of communication and consent.
Recognise how vital it is for situations to be consensual
Lesson plan 5: Safer sex
It's a good idea to look at safer sex in the context of relationships.
It’s a good idea to look at safer sex in the context of relationships
Lesson plan 6: Problem solving
Bringing all the basics of RSE together, with your students.
Combine and apply everything you and your students
have discussed
Sexual inventory
Risks associated with different activities and how to use a condom.
6 Review and update your policy to give your school the kind of RSE it needs
Update your RSE policy
Your school’s RSE policy forms the framework on which your entire programme is built. This resource will help you evaluate your school's policy, to help ensure it promotes everything that’s intrinsic to great RSE and incorporates the views and needs of the people it involves.
Content includes:
- Why is your RSE policy so important?
- What does an effective RSE policy include?
- Updating your RSE policy
Further your safeguarding policy
Use this resource to look at your safeguarding in relation to the sensitive topics taught as part of quality RSE. Ensure that the RSE in your school complements and enhances your safeguarding procedures and therefore protects the welfare of young people in your school.
Content includes:
- How does relationships and sex education help to safeguard young people?
- How to ensure that your school’s safeguarding provision is effective
- Building upon your current safeguarding procedure with DO...
The Review Framework for practitioners of RSE
This is your chance to trial a new quality framework for RSE with the RSE Hub.
7 More about what you can do to make great RSE happen
Increase awareness of services
Professional organisations can help young people and teachers by ensuring they have up-to-date knowledge and services, as well as raising awareness of local concerns. This resource will help you build and increase your partnerships. It will also help you ensure young people have the confidence and understanding of how, when and why they should use them.
Content includes:
- The benefits of a school and sexual health service partnership
- What should additional services include?
- Raising awareness of services in your school
- How to secure additional services
- Services from the DO… Collaboration