What should schools prioritise when kids go back?

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When our kids go back to school surely they should prioritise bringing the kids up to speed with literacy and numeracy and other core subjects.
But schools are going to have to start teaching relationships and sex ed as a new subject. Have they had time to train the teachers properly on this?
And have you been consulted by your school about RSE? - schools HAVE TO DO THIS AND SHARE RESOURCES WITH YOU...have you heard from your school about this?
Don't you think this can wait and lets get back to normal first and catch up?

Surely this is due to start in September, and has been planned for a fair while? Why are you getting your knickers in a twist about it?

Interesting thing to register and post about as your first post, too. Almost like you have some sort of agenda...

I am sure that the priority will be effective handwashing and social distancing and then maybe getting pupils back into the idea of learning.

Saftey ....

re-establishing friendships and social interactions after isolation.

Sounds like exactly the sort of thing that comes under the relationships part of the curriculum, so excellent foresight OP and I 100% agree they should, well done for reminding schools of the relative importance, literacy and numeracy are such a long game that you're right missing out on a bit more time now is completely irrelevant and you can't speed up acquisition of it anyway.

health and safety of staff and children?

Most schools already taught RSE and only some slight tweaking was needed.

The policy should be on the school website.

As we are only accepting Reception children it will be about getting them used to the new routine, new start times, mixing within their groups only and catching up with where they are and filling gaps.

Talking, laughing, debate,

How is this new my 16 year old was taught relationship and sex Ed from reception in an age appropriate way.
Reception - Pants rule, considering others feelings
Year 2 - development of babies and birth
The above are the most memorable points, but I remember different family make ups that all relationships are normal not matter shape they come in.

How is this new my 16 year old was taught relationship and sex Ed from reception in an age appropriate way

It's now compulsory, previously it was just something all but the most bonkers schools did because it was sensible, sadly there were some schools (particularly religious ones obviously) who ignored it.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education

I rather hope that apart from a greater emphasis on healthy behaviour, things return to as they were before. But I do hope school governors and inspectors are keeping an eye for religious nut jobs trying to exploit the situation by misusing a contrived squeeze on curriculum time to promote an agenda of keeping kids in ignorance of key life issues.

But schools are going to have to start teaching relationships and sex ed as a new subject.

Explain.

Idk, I don't think anything needs prioritising over anything else. Timetable allocation already allows for core subject priority. Doing nothing but numeracy and literacy all day will just turn children off.

I'm not saying online teaching is in any way good enough or a substitute for real lessons but at least it works for academic subjects. Our pupils are still making progress in English, maths, science etc. But I teach performing arts and my online lessons are fairly awful. My online 'productions' in particular barely deserve to be given the word production. They're practically pointless and it's really depressing.

I'm not claiming that drama and dance are as important as English and Maths to most children but they get 1 hour of performing arts a week and 5 hours of maths. I don't think it would benefit anyone for them to do 6 hours of core subjects and lose arts or sport or sex ed or whatever. They need the full balance.

Plus I'd lose my job...

Of course correct hand washing is important using plenty of soap and water and adequate time taken but, inevitably, some children will not wash their hands properly leaving contamination on the hands. In addition to washing, how children dry their hands is also important. Some schools provide electric hand dryers for children. These can blow germs, including viruses including coronavirus, off the hands and into the toilet environment where they will contaminate surfaces, other children and can be inhaled as aerosol droplets (the respiratory tract being a prime infection site for coronavirus). The high-speed, jet air dryer type of hand dryer where the hands are moved up and down inside a chamber with open sides is especially likely to transmit contamination on the hands into the air. Some of these have claimed air speeds of over 400 mph (600 kph) and have been shown to transmit virus on the hands at least 3 metres and for virus to be detectable in the air over 15 minutes after use. Also, maximum contamination is blown out sideways at the height of a small child's face. Due to the pandemic, some shops and universities abroad have removed jet air dryers from their washrooms. UK schools should do the same and provide disposable paper towels which are far more hygienic.