Health and Wellbeing
Relationships, Sexual Health and
Parenthood Organiser
Context
‘Respect and Responsibility’
(Delivering Improvements in Sexual Health Outcomes
2008- 2011)
Recommendations for provision of SRE, delivered through Curriculum
for Excellence and the entitlement to a broad general education
SRE linked to other curricular areas
Delivered by well trained and supported staff
Planned and delivered with partners
Promotes skills development
Takes account of local contexts
Health and Wellbeing
Framework
Mental,
emotional,
social and
physical
wellbeing
Planning
for choices
and
changes
Relationships,
sexual health
and parenthood
Where does Relationships, Sexual Health and
Parenthood feature in the Health and Wellbeing
framework? Responsibility of All aspects in BOLD.
Physical
education,
physical
activity and
sport
Food and
health
Substance
misuse
Introductory Statement:
“Learners develop an understanding of how to maintain
positive relationships with a variety of people and are aware
of how thoughts, feelings, attitudes, values and beliefs can
influence decisions about relationships, and sexual
health. They develop their understanding of the complex
roles and responsibilities of being a parent or carer.”
What skills do we need to teach
children and young people to be
able to do this?
How will we know how much
and how well children and
young people have learned?
Why is learning and
teaching in this
area important?
Getting it right can positively influence
life choices and chances!
 Builds vital life skills • empathy
• valuing differences
• decision making
• evaluating risks
 Helps to develop the skills and knowledge needed to
form positive relationships e.g. friendships, family,
work, sexual
 Can be influential in the timing of initial sexual activity
and reducing homophobic attitudes
Key Themes
An emphasis on building positive relationships
A need to invest time and resources in ensuring in building
practitioners’ skills and confidence
Developing parenthood skills in children from an Early Level
Challenges
 Confidence building / training for practitioners
 Building quality, sustainable partnerships
 Engaging parents
 Measuring impact shorter term?
 Ensuring that RSHP is not delivered in isolation.
Balancing the need to encourage delay with recognition that
there may be those who are already sexually active
Giving clear non judgemental messages about sexual
health
Creative Approaches
(see SFS materials for further detail)
•Collaborative work streams
•Learning community approach to SHARE model
•Health Buddy project
•Cluster approaches
•Methodologies such as storyline
•Teaching Parenting skills to primary children
•Innovative ways of engaging parents
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