Dear Parents/Carers,
As we welcome students back this week, I thought I would take this opportunity to write to you to launch our new ‘Virtues’ programme for the year ahead.
Each student in Years 7 – 9 will receive one Virtues lesson a week and years 10 and 11 will receive one Virtues lesson a fortnight. You may well have already read the information on the Virtues curriculum page via our website about the rationale for these lessons. If not, I would encourage you to do so.
Part of the Virtues programme will include Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) lessons which become statutory for all schools during the last academic year. As a school, we will be delivering these lessons via the Ten:Ten theatre company’s provision which meets the statutory requirements and is recommended by the Catholic Education Service (CES).
Ten:Ten have kindly created a parental portal which will enable parents/carers to access the lesson materials in advance, and to further assist the learning of children in the home environment. The information be found at:- https://www.tentenresources.co.uk/login/
Username: opp-em-25
Password: rse-parent-brown
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you wish to discuss or withdraw consent for the Relationships, Sex and Health Education (Ten:Ten)aspect of the virtues programme. We will be commencing delivery of the Ten:Ten lessons from 03/10/2022.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr L. Nicholson
Assistant Headteacher
Lnicholson@ems.bhcet.org.uk
