Relationships and Sex Education 3-11: Supporting Children's Development and Well-being

This book provides professionals working with children with strategies to support children's questions about relationships, growing up, and sex, meeting the requirements of the new legislation on relationships education for primary-aged children. It discusses platonic friendships, developing self-respect and respect for others, and enabling personal choice and safety, and includes new chapters on children's development and needs and developing inclusive relationships education.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 248 pages
\n Publication date: 21 March 2019
\n Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The prospect of this age-old question is one that causes significant apprehension for many professionals working with children, but this is not where the anxiety ends. This book argues that it is essential to have clear strategies to support children's questions about relationships, growing up, and sex so that they are enabled to develop positive and confident views about themselves and those around them. It examines important concerns such as the role of media in children's lives in shaping their views on relationships and explores how issues of gender and sexuality are considered more fluidly. Whether working in an academy, free schools, faith schools, the independent sector, or elsewhere, this book supports you to help children deal with a wide range of relationship issues, meeting the requirements of the new legislation on relationships education for primary-aged children as a foundation for relationships and sex education. Drawing on research with teachers about their apprehensions about teaching the subject and children's experiences of its delivery, the authors give a full picture of common concerns and difficulties and how to successfully meet them and support children from 3–11, and the transition to secondary school. Topics covered include platonic friendships, developing self-respect and respect for others, and enabling personal choice and safety.

Sacha Mason and Richard Woolley explore issues surrounding notions of age and stage development. They discuss how children develop at different rates and that each child is unique in relation to learning in this area. They outline a distinct pedagogical approach to managing children's individual needs for relationships and sex education. They also look at supporting children with SEND when co.

\n Weight: 444g\n
Dimension: 242 x 172 x 7 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781350080713\n
Edition number: 2 ed\n