Announcement

We are now inviting your comments on PSHE, which incorporates the new statutory guidance.

The DfE statutory guidance states: ‘Parents should be given every opportunity to understand the purpose and content of Relationships Education and RSE. Good communication and opportunities for parents to understand and ask questions about the school’s approach help increase confidence in the curriculum.’

We are therefore:

• Communicating with our parents/carers about PSHE education.
• Highlighting the guidance and giving you the opportunity to comment and feed back on our intended delivery of topics to our students.
• Conducting a Parent Consultation – establishing parents’/carers’ current understanding of RSE, giving opportunities to raise any questions or concerns and highlight any particular needs you feel your child has when learning about RSE or PSHE topics.
• Directing you to the PSHE education curriculum on the school website, which can be found here.
• Directing you to the Statutory Guidance from the DfE as well as their documents for parents/carers.

The Statutory Guidance from the DfE can be found here:

Statutory Guidance – Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) for Secondary Schools

The Guide for Parents and FAQs can be found here:

Guides for parents and FAQs

Information on our Personal Development curriculum can be found on the school website here:

Personal Development curriculum

You can participate in the Consultation by emailing Mrs Bowers, Deputy Headteacher, at bbowers@st-birinus.oxon.sch.uk, and putting PSHE Parent Consultation in the subject of the email, or by writing to:

Mrs Bowers, Deputy Headteacher

PSHE Parent Consultation

St Birinus School

Mereland Road

Didcot

OX11 8AZ

by the closing date of Friday 18^th December 2020

Mrs Bowers' letter, below, contains further information.