RSE POST-PRIMARY

Over recent years the Council for Education of the Irish Episcopal Conference has overseen the publication by Veritas of a guidance document and of two suites of RSE resources,  the first oriented toward Junior Cycle students, and the second, Senior Cycle students.

  GUIDANCE

Relationships and Sexuality Education Guidance for Catholic Post-Primary Schools (ROI)

This document has been developed to support leaders and teachers in Catholic Post-Primary schools in their work in the area of Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE). It has benefitted from the contributions of a number of organisations and experts in the area of RSE, as well as a very broad consultative process that included very many students, parents, teachers, principals and chairs of Boards of Management in Catholic primary and post-primary schools.

The RSE guidance document seeks to provide guidance in two ways. Firstly, it provides the rationale for RSE in a Catholic school. This includes important guiding principles underpinning a Catholic school’s RSE provision, important contextual background for RSE in a Catholic school, and aims and objectives for RSE in a Catholic school.

Secondly, it seeks to assist Catholic schools in the area of RSE by providing important information and practical guidance for the school’s work on the development of the school’s own RSE policy. 

Click here to download this guidance: RSE Post Primary Schools – Republic of Ireland.

RESOURCES

JUNIOR CYCLE

Living Love – Relationship and Sexuality Education resource

All Catholic schools are encouraged to take up this resource, i.e. in light of the guidance offered above.

Feedback from schools is also welcome and should be addressed to the school’s trust or patron.