God's Loving Plan - relationship education resources

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Hello, I hope this is OK to post here. I realise this won't be everyone's cup of tea but I've had several battles with schools over relationship education and rainbow influences policies - can anyone confirm whether or not the God's Loving Plan programme is free from ideas of being born in the wrong body etc... from looking at a leaflet I feel full of confidence that it is, but I have been burnt before with deliberate attempts to mislead. Anyone who is familiar with this and could advise I would be most grateful. Thank you

No idea.
However does God's Loving Plan make room for gay relationships? I would be worried it might not.

No idea - but clearly not appropriate for schools which are not/should not be evangelical.

The primary purpose of God's Loving Plan as a syllabus seems to be to promote the Catholic faith. I wouldn't want this to be used in any state school tbh, but obviously there are a lot of religious-funded or branded state schools in this country and where parents sign up to a Catholic ethos I'm sure that fits.

From what I can tell it teaches children that the only appropriate context for sex is a heterosexual marriage. So if that's what you are looking for I think you've found it - personally I would object in the most strenuous terms to my child being taught that this was the case. However your views may be different of course.

For what it's worth, I highly, highly doubt it is pro trans, if that is your sole concern.

Of course, I understand that, this is a Catholic school

I have nothing against people in homosexual relationships - I really don't. I'm happy for this to be covered in the context of loving committed relationships. What I'm afraid of is my child being exposed to the sort of explicit materials promoted by LGBTYS etc

I think that anything called "God's loving plan" produced by a Catholic education service is likely to be sex-realist, but also abstinence only (if it includes sex education) and probably not too positive on LGB relationships, if they are mentioned at all. Likely to be appropriate only for a Catholic school. If your school is not Catholic you might want to query its use!

Also, as a parent you have a right to see materials used in class for sex education and PSHE, even if they are copyrighted. You also have a right to see their PSHE and RSE policies, and question their process of consultation when coming up with the policy and how regularly it's updated. So don't let them fob you off with a leaflet.

The leaflet says they teach God's view of marriage but alongside this a recognition of diverse family structures. My child has many schoolfriends with different backgrounds and home lives and of course they should be included and not made to feel other in any way.

Thank you, this is helpful

Children in catholic schools should also have a right to know how their bodies work, that desire is a normal part of life, and same sex relationships are normal. The fact that Catholic schools are able to opt out of giving information to kids doesn’t make this kind of leaflet “ok for a Catholic school.” It might be legal, but it doesn’t make it ok.

In your opinion.

My DC went to a Catholic primary school and basically what we got told was that the school expected parents to discuss the issues at home first and then the God’s loving plan stuff was done at school. They sent all the materials home before they were discussed in school. It was all fairly straightforward. Possibly the only thing was the life from conception bit but I would not expect DC to be discussing abortion in primary school anyway (they have done in secondary in RMPS).

I am a single parent and I have always been quite open that people also have same sex relationships or indeed no relationships etc.