Health Services

As part of 5th grade standards students learn about their own growth and development. This includes helping them to understand the physical and emotional changes they experience during puberty and acknowledging that these changes are a normal part of growth and development.  It also covers discussion about the human reproductive system.  Students will learn how to stay healthy and confident during these changes and to take care of themselves.  We always encourage students to talk with their parents about their feelings and questions.

Our district nurse will present this information to the class.  We will be using materials from the Changing and Growing Up program.

California adopted the California Healthy Youth Act for the purpose of providing students with the knowledge and skills related to recognizing, building, and maintaining healthy relationships that are based on mutual affection and free from violence, coercion and intimidation. This includes teaching decision-making and communication skills and helping students understand the value of and prepare for committed relationships, such as marriage. It also includes information about unhealthy behaviors and risks to their health, such as sexual harassment, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and sex trafficking. It aims to provide pupils with the knowledge and skills necessary to protect their sexual and reproductive health from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and from unintended pregnancy;to promote understanding of sexuality as a normal part of human development; and to ensure pupils receive integrated, comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased sexual health and HIV prevention instruction. (EC 51930-51939)
 

Each school district must ensure that all pupils receive comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education at least once in junior high and once in high school. It is the policy of the Enterprise Elementary School District that this instruction will not extend beyond these required grades. The curriculum is divided so that sex trafficking prevention is taught in 7th grade, and sexual health and HIV prevention are taught in 8th grade. In order to meet this requirement, Enterprise Elementary uses the Positive Prevention Plus curriculum.