
RSE Parent Consultation – 18/01/2021
This webinar for parents will provide you with important information about the statutory requirements of RSE. You will learn about how your Muslim school will
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The AMS is leading the development of resources that can used in the classroom to teach RSE, as well as support for leaders in meeting their statutory obligations, all within an Islamic context.
Below you will find webinars, downloadable resources, FAQs and the option to buy our brand new, bespoke RSE curriculum.
Download our template policy, best practice guidance, governors auditing tool, staff and parental engagement/consultation guidance, long term planning for primary and secondary plus much more
Download our primary and secondary powerpoint presentations to use as part of your consultation, as well as advice for parents and schools
For all RSE enquiries email rse@ams-uk.org
This webinar for parents will provide you with important information about the statutory requirements of RSE. You will learn about how your Muslim school will
Join a panel of senior educationalists as we explore how Muslim schools will be delivering the statutory RSE guidance. The webinar will provide the community
Join us for this special webinar where you will learn about some of the more sensitive topics that must be taught under the new statutory
This recording of our webinar presents advice, written especially to support schools to deliver the new RSE curriculum within an Islamic context. We will also
This recording of our webinar presents advice, written especially to support schools to deliver the new RSE curriculum within an Islamic context. We will also
The RSE curriculum will be released over two stages.
For each phase (primary or secondary), you will receive over 70 lesson plans, providing coverage across every year group, meeting all the RSE criteria identified by the DFE. This is a complete RSE curriculum.
We will also be providing free staff training on how to effectively deliver your RSE curriculum.
The DfE states that Relationships Education has been designed to help children from all backgrounds build positive and safe relationships, and to thrive in modern Britain This means taking into account the religious background of pupils when planning teaching, so that topics are appropriately taught.
We will hold a parent session where we will share the lesson plans and resources we will use to teach about different types of families before we deliver these lessons.
This previous guidance was outdated and our government felt that it no longer met the needs of pupils in our schools. More has been shared on this in the presentation we delivered to parents as part of our consultation process. Please see our school website.
From September 2020 in primary schools, parents can withdraw their child from any aspect of Sex Education other than those which are part of the science Curriculum. Sex Education is not compulsory in primary schools.
Parents will continue to have a right to request to withdraw their child from sex education delivered as part of RSE in secondary schools (other than those which are part of the Science Curriculum), which, unless there are exceptional circumstances, should be granted up to three terms before their child turns 16. At this point, if the pupil themselves wishes to receive sex education rather than be withdrawn, the school should make arrangements for this to happen in one of the three terms before the child turns 16-the legal age of sexual consent.
There is no right to withdraw from Relationships Education or Health Education in primary or secondary schools.
We will be using materials that have been prepared by the Association of Muslim Schools. These have been written to meet statutory guidance, as well as help schools to deliver units according to the teachings of the Qur’an and Sunnah.
Everyone is entitled to their own belief, religion and culture. Schools have a duty to promote the protected characteristics, which include religion and belief but also include different families. In this country, no one protected characteristic is more important than another.
While Islam does not recognise all types of different families, our school teaches that according to English law, families can look different.
As a Muslim school we are not expected to promote different relationships, however, we will teach our children that we expect everyone to be respectful and recognise that families will look different in the society in which they live.
In secondary schools we are expected to cover LGBT content in our RSE teaching and this is expected to include age appropriate and developmentally appropriate teaching about different types of relationships in the context of the law.
Children are never too young to learn about respect and we will teach this from a young age. We do not teach about sexual or romantic relationships in school. Instead, we will focus on families and people who take care of us but recognise that in the community in which we live, families can and do look different.
Children will learn about puberty at an appropriate time to them so that they are prepared for the changes that they will go through at this time.
We will not be teaching sex education as it is not statutory for primary schools.
Children will:
• Learn about how boys and girls are different and the same.
• Explore the stereotypes associated with boys and girls.
Teaching about gender identity is not statutory for primary schools.
Yes, you can access these from the link below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-sex-and-health-education-guides-for-schools