PSHE and RSE
The PSHE curriculum equips learners to become lights within their world. They are encouraged to live healthy, safe, productive, capable, responsible and balanced lives. Learners are encouraged to shine by being supported in making effective decisions, positive learning, career choices and in achieving economic wellbeing. Learners are provided with opportunities to reflect on, clarify their own values and attitudes, and explore the complex and conflicting range of values and attitudes encountered now and in the future. Learners will also develop inter and intra personal skills allowing them to develop team work and personal skills ensuring they shine and are not hidden.
Our intention is that, when students leave the Skegness Academy, they do so with the knowledge, understanding and emotions to be able to play an active role in today's society. We want our students to have high aspirations, a belief in themselves and a confidence in sharing their own thought anything is possible if they put their minds to it.
Within the PSHE curriculum sits RSE. Relationships and Sex Education at the Skegness Academy aims to support young people through their physical, emotional and moral development from childhood to adolescence and into adulthood. We believe that Relationship and Sex Education is an essential part of a broad and balanced curriculum.
It is delivered to all students in accordance with the Academy's Equal Opportunities Policy and is planned alongside the DFE statutory guidance on Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education which is taken from Section 80A of the Education Act 2002 and section 403 of the Education Act 1996. This guidance replaces the Sex and Relationship Education guidance (2000). This guidance will be reviewed three years from first required teaching (September 2020) and every three years after that point.
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The RSHE curriculum equips learners to become lights within their world. They are encouraged to live healthy, safe, productive, capable, responsible and balanced lives. Learners are encouraged to shine by being supported in making effective decisions, positive learning, career choices and in achieving economic wellbeing. Learners are provided with opportunities to reflect on, clarify their own values and attitudes, and explore the complex and conflicting range of values and attitudes encountered now and in the future. Learners will also develops inter and intra personal skills allowing them to develop team work and personal skills ensuring they shine and are not hidden.
RSHE (Key Stage 3)
Key Stage 3 programmes of study include: Living in a wider world, Relationships, identity and safety, Healthy living and responsible health choices, Puberty, emotional health and well being, Sex relationships and conflict, Prejudice, values, extremism and cults, Careers and finance, My goals, behaviour and emotions, Looking after your health, Discrimination, prejudice and challenges, Healthy Relationships With Others And Ourselves, Our Health + Personal Safety, Achieving with Good Mental Health.
Key Themes
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Key Stage 3 |
Key Stage 4 |
Key Stage 5 |
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At this age students are going through the early stages of puberty. The topics covered are: |
The topics covered in Key Stage 4 are: |
There are many topics that are covered to support the development of Sixth Form students. Here are some of the topics we cover: |
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Changes to the body |
Human Fertility - how males and females differ in their fertility |
Healthy Relationships & Friendships |
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Emotions and mental health during puberty |
The impact of the Internet and mobile technology on sexual issues and how this might be different for boys and girls. |
Sex and intimacy |
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Human fertility |
Pornography and the potential for it to affect their relationships and expectations |
Consent |
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Contraception |
Peer pressure and how it may affect the choices they make |
Pornography v relationships |
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Personal responsibility for Health (e.g. personal hygiene, healthy habits, internet use) |
Choices and alternatives to different sexual situations. |
Safe sex |
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The menstrual cycle |
Consent in the context of relationships |
Knife crime |
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Sexual Relationships and an individual’s health (including STIs, HIV and AIDs) |
Self care (breast and testicle examination) |
Media literacy |
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Introduction to consent and thinking about personal boundaries and how to set them |
Healthy and unhealthy relationships |
Body Image |
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Laws relating to sexual harassment |
Teenage parenthood |
Household budgets |
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The effect of the media and the internet on body image |
Positive sexual relationships |
Masculinity and Men |
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Building and sustaining positive relationships |
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International Day of Peace |
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Pornography and the potential for it to affect their relationships and expectation
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World Religion Day |
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Passover |
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Human rights |
Our intention is that, when students leave the Skegness Academy, they do so with the knowledge, understanding and emotions to be able to play an active role in today’s society. We want our students to have high aspirations, a belief in themselves and a confidence in sharing their own thought anything is possible if they put their minds to it.
The Academy undertakes student voice and assesses understanding at the end of each topic. Furthermore, Quality Assurance takes places throughout the academic year in order to monitor and evaluate the coverage across the curriculum.
We follow national guidance in this area and you can read our trust-wide policy here.
In the purple box below is a copy of the RSE Policy for SKA.
Updated: September 2025