Parent meeting Sex and relationships policy

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Parent meetingSex and relationships policy

• Thursday 13th September 2007

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Caring for children

• Within school we meet many standards to ensure
  the well being of the children in our care.
• This includes all children, whatever their race,
  religion, abilities, whatever they think or say
  and whatever type of family they come from.
• We endeavor to protect them from any kind of
  harm, including bullying of any nature.

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DFES 2000

• Our sex and relationship education policy is
  based on the DFES document, Sex and
  Relationships guidance (2000).
• The guidance states that SRE is about,
  understanding the importance of marriage for
  family life, stable and loving relationships,
  respect, love and care. It is also about the
  teaching of sex, sexuality and sexual health.

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New legislation

• To meet new guidelines from the government,
  schools now must be open to discuss same sex
  relationships with children when required.
• This does not mean promoting it, but discussing
  it when needed at a level appropriate for the
  child.

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Code of professional values and practice,
General Teaching Council of England To ensure
the positive development of individual pupils,
teachers work within a framework of equal
opportunities and other relevant legislation,
statutory guidance and school policies. Within
this framework, teachers challenge stereotypes
and oppose prejudice to safeguard equality of
opportunity, respecting individuals regardless of
gender, marital status, religion, colour, race,
nationality, class, sexual orientation,
disability and age
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• Children come from all sorts of families and we
  aim to make all these children comfortable to
  discuss their home life.
• This includes children who come from families
  where their parents are in same sex
  relationships.
• Within our PSHCME lessons, children will be
  taught about various different family types, this
  may include families where there are two mums or
  two dads, in order to teach tolerance,
  understanding and respect for others.
• Teaching at this school will always be relevant
  and appropriate to the age of the child.

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• As part of our equality and inclusion policies,
  we are also dedicated to tackle any type of
  discrimination against others.
• At our school this includes dealing with bullying
  of all types, inculding homophobic comments. As
  well as tackling children using inappropriate
  terms.

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Over three quarters of primary age children
identify the use of the word gay as a way of
attacking or making fun of someone.
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• Calls about homophobic bullying accounted for 27
  of the April 2006 calls relating to sexual
  orientation issues to ChildLine
• Boys account for 55 of the calls in this
  category, even though they represent only 25 of
  all calls to the helpline
• During April 6 of calls relating to sexual
  orientation were from under 11s
• NSPCC

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SRE Policy

• Further information is available within our SRE
  policy.
• Anyone who wishes to see this is more than
  welcome.
• It will soon be available to access freely on the
  schools website, which will be online shortly.