🧩Important information about our Jigsaw unit in Summer 2: Changing Me 🧩
At KPNS, we follow Jigsaw as our PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) programme.
Next half-term (Summer 2), we will be focusing on the Changing Me unit. This includes, in every year group, 6 lessons to help children understand their bodies, the changes puberty brings, and how human reproduction happens. There is also an important safeguarding aspect to this work.
In the younger year groups, these issues are not taught directly or explicitly. Instead, children focus on learning the correct terminology for body parts and building the foundations for learning in later year groups.
In Year 1, we will be learning the correct names for our private body parts during our Jigsaw sessions. As some of this content may be new to your child, or may prompt questions at home, I wanted to give you a brief outline of what will be covered. If you wish, you may want to discuss this with your child prior to the unit, which will begin in the week commencing 1.6.26.
Vocabulary covered
Children will be introduced to age-appropriate scientific vocabulary, including:
life cycle, baby, grown-up, mature, change, male, female, vagina, penis, testicles, vulva, anus, learn, new, feelings, anxious, worried, excited, coping.
All resources used are provided by Jigsaw and include illustrations only (no photographs).
Please see below for an overview of each session in the unit.
We will ensure that children do not feel embarrassed or ashamed and instead understand that “private” means something special and personal to them. These sessions will be taught alongside the Pantosaurus resource (Talk PANTS: Conversation to help keep children safe | NSPCC(opens in new tab)), helping children understand that their private parts belong to them and that no one has the right to see or touch them without permission.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to get in touch.