At Belong School Gloucestershire we are committed to providing a personalised curriculum with the individual student at the heart of everything we do. We provide a broad and balanced, enriched and extended curriculum tailored to individual needs. The curriculum is planned to recognise and meet the specific learning needs of each pupil and is differentiated to ensure learning opportunities are both challenging and appropriate.

We provide stimulating activities which will help pupils to build resilience, better understand themselves and the world around them, supporting our students to make a successful transition to adulthood and to be active and responsible citizens.

Our curriculum is built around three key areas:

To truly engender a sense of belonging in our students we provide a rich curriculum focussing on teaching our students to become independent and valued members of the community, both at school and beyond. We focus upon building our students’ willingness to engage with learning and their ability to regulate themselves with decreasing support. We aim to instil our students with confidence in their own ability and to build resilience as they explore the wide range of learning activities and developmental opportunities on offer to them.

Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) is taught within the personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education curriculum. Biological aspects of RSE are taught within the science curriculum, and other aspects are included in religious education (RE) at KS3.

RSE is also a core part of our provision, tailored to meet the need of the individual and forms an essential part of their learning. Students also receive stand-alone sex education sessions delivered by a trained health professional.

RSE focuses on giving young people the information they need to help them develop healthy, nurturing relationships of all kinds including Families, respectful relationships (including friendships), online content and media, being safe and Intimate and sexual relationships, including sexual health.

All areas of learning are taught within the context of family life taking care to ensure that there is no stigmatisation of children based on their home circumstances (families can include single parent families, LGBT parents, families headed by grandparents, adoptive parents, foster parents/carers amongst other structures) along with reflecting sensitively that some children may have a different structure of support around them (for example: looked after children or young carers).

To find out more about Belong School Gloucestershire’s approach to RSE, please see our Relationship and Sex Education policy using the link below.