All children from Senior Infants to 6th class will be revisiting the R.S.E. Programme with their class teacher during this term. The topics which will revisited are:
Senior Infants – 2nd Class
- Keeping Safe
- Bodily changes during grown and birth (birth to 9 Years)
- Making age appropriate choices
- Appreciating family life
- Recognising and expressing feelings
- Self-care, hygiene, diet, exercise and sleep
- Expressing opinions and listening to others
- Naming the parts of the male/female body using appropriate anatomical terms (Senior Infants, 1st Class & 2nd Class)
- Naming the parts of the male/female body using appropriate anatomical terms and identify some of their functions (1st/2nd)
3rd to 6th Class:
- Bodily changes
- Healthy eating, personal hygiene, exercise
- Keeping Safe
- Expressing Feelings
- Family relationships
- Making healthy and responsible decisions
- Forming Friendships
- Discuss the stages and sequence of development of the human baby in the womb (5th Class)
- Changes that occur in boys and girls with the onset of puberty (Sixth Class)
- Reproductive system of male/female adults (Sixth Class)
- Understanding sexual intercourse, conception and birth within the context of a committed loving relationship. (Sixth Class)
If parents require further information regarding this, they may do so by contacting their child’s class teacher. Copies of our RSE Policy are also available upon request.
