Hi, I wanted to ask a question to primary Citizenship teachers. I left teaching a few years ago, but used to be a secondary Head of Citizenship, but have a question as a parent.
My children are in Years 3 and 4 and have come home today after a PSHCE lesson knowing a lot of detail about terrorism, which I presume is taught as part of the Prevent strategy. I had assumed that Prevent would cover areas such as tolerance, community cohesion, online safety, shared values, free speech Vs hate speech, self-confidence to not follow a crowd, etc. I didn't expect at lower KS2 that they would come home having been told the details of the Manchester Arena attack, 9/11, tube bombings, and suicide bombing in general.
I just wondered if this was normal for a Year3/4 citizenship lesson? They seemed to have learned an awful lot of detail for a 30 minute lesson. I'd like to speak to the school, but am I being over-protective and naive? Is this just a normal part of teaching the Prevent strategy? I can't find a specified POS for teaching Prevent. Is there one?
Many thanks to those who can help she'd a little light on this.