Health and Relationships Curriculum (HRE)

Our goal is for our children to be prepared for the world they are growing up in:

To have respect for other people according to the Equality Act 2010.
To stay healthy and safe.
To have a knowledge of their own body.
To form positive, healthy relationships with others.

Tower Hamlets is a place where we celebrate our differences and see our diversity as strength. Our borough is ‘No Place for Hate’ and we work to tackle all forms of hate and intolerance. We want our schools to be places which champion this diversity and can make all children, and their families, feel welcome in the school community and within our borough (Guidance from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets for all schools).

What do we teach in Health and Relationships lessons?

Our curriculum for Health and Relationships directly follows the statutory government expectations – see the link to the following document.

DFE Statutory document - Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education

HRE lessons are taught once every 2 weeks for 45 minutes. The teachers teach carefully planned and resourced lessons that have been written, following the school policy and using the government guidelines. Each term the lessons are taught covering the following six knowledge categories:

Families and people who care for us
Caring friendships
Respectful relationships
Being safe
Mental wellbeing
Physical health

Click here for some frequently asked questions answered by Tower Hamlets Education Authority.

Statement of Support for the teaching of aspect of the HRE Curriculum fromL

London Borough of Tower Hamlets (LBTH) Safeguarding Partnership. Click here.

The chair of the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), the London-wide Local Medical Committee and the GP Care Group. Click here,

Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) contact information

Please find a one minute guide to the LADO role and when to refer, contact details and then a safeguarding statement along with the LADO referral paperwork that the schools could use as, if and when they wish.

Melanie Benzie

Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)

Relationships and Sex Education

The Non Statutory part of the curriculum, Sex Education, will be taught in Year 6 only. Sex Education is sexual reproduction in humans, reproductive cycle in humans and conception. It is one lesson, not a series of lessons.

Parents have the option to withdraw their children and parents will be informed of this every year before the lesson.
A meeting will be held for Year 6 parents a half term before this lesson (every year) and the resources we will use will be shown to the Year 6 parents (every year).
Year 6 Sex Education lessons will be in single sex groups, boys taught by a male teacher (if we have one) and girls by a female teacher.

Here is our Sex and Relationships policy.

HRE Curriculum Overview - Curriculum Intent

- Please click the link below for a detailed breakdown of what is taught in each year from Year 1 to Year 6.

HRE Curriculum Overview.

This link will take you to the the Globe Curriculum page where you will find the curriculum map for each year. These give an overview of what is taught in subject area, our curriculum intent.

How we Implement our Health and Relationships Curriculum

HRE is taught fortnightly for 45 minutes. We do not block our subjects as we want children to return regularly to the subject knowledge and concepts in order that they are regularly retrieving the tuaght knowledge and concepts, embedding these in their long term memory. This enables them to make progress - know more and remember more.

Health and Relationships Education Policy

An example of a Milestone 1 Lesson

An example of a Milestone 2 Lesson

An example of a Milestone 3 Lesson

Subject Specific Vocabulary

We teach children a rich and broad vocabulary in order that they develop a deep understanding of the subjects they study. We carefully select this subject vocabulary, teaching it in context. Here is the health and relationshipa education vocabulary we teach in each milestone.

Milestone 1

Milestone 2

Milestone 3

Early Years - Nursery & Reception Curriculum

Early Years Foundation Stage - what does Health and Relationships look like in the Early Years?

In Early Years HRE is part of the Personal, Social and Emotional Development area of the Early Years curriuclum.

Personal Social and Emotional Development (PSED) supports children to have a positive sense of themselves, respect for others, social skills, emotional well-being and a positive disposition to learning. These are all crucial for school readiness.

PSED is about children:

developing confidence and independence
making friends and getting on with others
learning about right and wrong
self-regulating their emotions
understanding about their own and others’ feelings
feeling good about themselves
being interested, excited and motivated about their play and learning
gaining self-respect for themselves
developing respect for their own culture and beliefs and those of others

The document below outlines in more detail the specific art and design objectives within the Early Years curriculum, what it looks like in practice, and demonstrates the links between the Early Years and the KS1 HRE and PSED curriculum. It also highlights key vocabulary taught within our Early Years and at Key Stage 1.

Globe's Whole School Cultural Capital, Trips and Experiences Plan

Beyond the National Curriculum - Cultural Capital Experiences

Cultural capital is the essential knowledge that children need to prepare them for their future success. We want to ensure that children at Globe have a wide and varied range of experiences as they progress through our school. We want them to know about their world; to build a schema of knowledge and to do this through first hand experiences. We intend to provide our children with opportunities to develop not just their knowledge but their interests and talents. Our aim is to prepare them for a successful future.

Our school is in an area of high socio-economic deprivation. We are focused on addressing this disadvantage. Our curriculum is the main provider of cultural capital however there are other aspects of school life which provide essential cultural capital and should not be overlooked. We have planned the cultural provision that goes beyond the curriculum and this plan can be found below. This plan is to capture, illustrate and to strategically plan for the breadth and range of cultural capital experiences we will provide for our children as they move through the school. We are not leaving such an essential element of our school’s provision to chance or individual teacher interest. When a child leaves Globe in Year 6, we will be certain of what they have learnt and experienced and know that they will be prepared for the next step in their learning and personal development.

Globe's Whole School Cultural Capital, Trips and Experiences Plan

Curriculum and Expectation Booklets for Parents

These booklets give an overview of our Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 curriculum. They explain what is taught in each subject area as well as outlining some of the expectations we have for children. Parents are given these booklets at the start of each year and they are sent electronically with each term's newsletter.