Marriage and children

Teacher notes

**Lyfta core themes:** Relationships, Community and Citizenship, Health and Wellbeing, Equality and Human Rights. **Lyfta core skills and values:** Empathy and Understanding others, Human Rights, Healthy Living, Decison making, Communication. **SDGs:** 1, 5, 11. **National Curriculum objectives:** KS2 PSHE R3. to learn about marriage and civil partnership as a legal declaration of commitment made by two adults who love and care for each other, which is intended to be lifelong R6. to understand that a feature of positive family life is caring relationships; about the different ways in which people care for one another H33. to learn about the processes of reproduction and birth as part of the human life cycle; how babies are conceived and born (and that there are ways to prevent a baby being made); how babies need to be cared for. KS2 Citizenship 2e. to reflect on spiritual, moral, social, and cultural issues, using imagination to understand other people's experiences, 4b. to think about the lives of people living in other places and times, and people with different values and customs, 4f. that differences and similarities between people arise from a number of factors, including cultural, ethnic, racial and religious diversity, gender and disability KS3/4 PSHE: R35. to learn the roles and responsibilities of parents in families R36. to understand the nature and importance of stable, long-term relationships (including marriage and civil partnerships) for family life and bringing up children. KS2 English Reading: to retrieve information from non-fiction texts Spoken English: to maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments.