Life Skills

Life Skills Content

RSE Guide for parents

Life Skills Sources of Support

Welcome to Life Skills

Life Skills is focused upon teaching and informing students about the ever-changing society they grow up in. It will provide them with the knowledge and skills to thrive now and in their futures and how to play a positive and successful role within our society. The school’s mission statement to produce articulate, questioning, tolerant and independent young women permeates throughout the Life skills curriculum both in the classroom and beyond. Life Skills is taught through one timetabled lesson each week for each year group and covers Relationships and Sex Education (RSE), Health Education, Citizenship (including British Values) Core RS and Careers. RSE and health education has been a compulsory aspect of secondary schools since 2021.

Sex and Relationships Education (RSE) is part of the curriculum for all pupils and is taught as modules through our Life Studies programme at both KS3 and KS4 and is concerned with the development of the whole person. All lessons are presented in the context of personal morality, the importance of informed choice and the value of family life.

Specific Sex and Relationships Education lessons are provided. Parents have the right to withdraw their daughters from these lessons and should contact the school in writing to do so.