Jigsaw PSHE

[cityofwomen]

Hi. My son's school has said they will be using Jigsaw PHSE curriculum. I've researched it and had an email exchange with the school and am still concerned. I've spoken to Safe School Alliance too.

Does anyone here have experience of this curriculum? Should I be massively worried?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4036363-Does-anyone-have-access-to-Jigsaw-PSHE-lesson-plans?pg=3

Several other threads on this. Search Jigsaw in titles in Feminism Chat.
Good luck with school.

I have just got detail - more than I have seen on here before - slowly typing them onto this thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4249060-JIgsaw-PHSE-materials-I-have-details?watched=1&msgid=107486174#107486174

Thanks both. Will take a look.

I have been trying to research Jigsaw PSHE after being informed my daughters will be implementing it from September.
I was unable to find anything via google apart from what is on mumsnet. I changed to Yahoo and managed to find the Jigsaw Year 2 medium term plan nechellsacademy.e-act.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2020/09/PSHE-Year-2-Medium-Term-Plan.pdf

Can you please help me articulate the issues with this? Jigsaw www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4286988-can-you-please-help-me-articulate-the-issues-with-this-jigsaw

'At Jigsaw we, of course, understand the difference between ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ .........'

'Jigsaw is very aware of the challenge of a binary-focused English language and does its best to use a mix
of boy/girl language and gender-neutral language e.g' . for names of characters in stories and scenarios etc.
Jigsaw tries to reflect the diverse demographic children are a part of, always emphasising the importance
of being kind, compassionate and accepting, focussing on the qualities of people as human beings, accepting
children who see themselves as boys, as girls, as non-binary etc

'At no point does Jigsaw say there are only two genders but equally it doesn’t suggest there are more;
neither, in the primary programme does it refer to gender fluidity'

Link to document www.sunnymede-jun.ik.org/assets/Ronnie%20Branch/PSHE/How-does-Jigsaw-approach-gender-identity.pdf

I noticed this in the last line of the message above and was unsure what it meant - apparently

1 Gender-fluid people fall under the broad umbrella of non-binary genders. 2 Gender-fluid people can fluctuate between genders at different times. 3 Some gender-fluid people are transgender, and others are not. 4 Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.

Why are primary school children being taught this?

The more I find the more worried I get

www.scienceabc.com/social-science/what-is-gender-fluidity.html

Gender fluidity is a concept of not rendering gender as a fixed point, but rather as a fluid characteristic that can change at any time according to the individual. This means that it goes beyond the LGBTQ+ or cisgenders (people who identify their gender based on their sex, i.e., typical males and females).

To make it simpler, some people in the LGBTQ+ community can also be gender fluid. This means they can be a man one day, a woman on another, or both on the same day, or none at all. For gender-fluid people, their gender expressions can occasionally change. Examples of famous gender-fluid celebrities are Miley Cyrus, Sam Smith, and Ruby Rose. Some even choose to change their pronouns to ‘they/them’ instead of ‘he’ or ‘her’.

Link below for this lesson Year 2 Gender Diversity

So, what is in these lessons?
Age 6-7 years, Celebrating Difference, Lesson 5, ‘Gender Diversity

www.sunnymede-jun.ik.org/assets/Ronnie%20Branch/PSHE/How-does-Jigsaw-approach-gender-identity.pdf

This document states - There are more than 250 lessons in the primary Jigsaw Programme. There is one lesson in KS1 and one in
KS2 where transgender identities could be said to be explicitly reflected, although the term ‘transgender’ is
only explicitly introduced in the materials in one lesson in Year 6 (Age 10-11 materials)

www.sunnymede-jun.ik.org/assets/Ronnie%20Branch/PSHE/How-does-Jigsaw-approach-gender-identity.pdf

My daughter just had the Jigsaw sex ed course.

Apparently, as part of it, the students (year 6) were encouraged to draw the perfect man, if they were a boy, or woman if they were a girl. My daughter said that most of them either drew a stick figure version of Kim Kardashian or The Rock.

Then they said that people didn't need to be like that, which I thought was okay. However, my daughter (who is a great little artist) said she'd drawn a realistic woman with a few curves, because she says, women DO usually have curves, and she felt the perfect woman was whatever woman you actually were.

She still got told "You don't have to be like that", so obviously whoever was doing the training wasn't actually paying very much attention to what the students had actually portrayed. A few of the pictures were smiley faces with arms and legs and these got no comment either.

I've had to teach PSHE using Jigsaw.

The line about 'teacher discretion' in the guidance is very useful...