For Key Stages 3 and 4
Are you OK? Is a local Torbay website, aimed at supporting people around domestic abuse, safer relationships and sexual violence and abuse. A lot of campaigns resources and guidance, as well as a local directory. Also features a range of TALK Toolkits, which have been designed to encourage discussion and raise awareness of various themes associated with domestic abuse and safer relationships – check out the ‘exploring healthy relationships’ toolkit.
Rise Above
A website full of up to date content written by and for young people covering bullying, relationships, body image, friends and mental health. Credible and quality content, great for signposting, peer support and advice for young people.
Rise Above for schools contains flexible (and free!) lesson plans and quality film content - some content suitable for year six.
Topics include:
- Bullying and Cyberbullying
- Smoking
- Online stress and FOMO
- Alcohol
- Exam stress
- Body image in a digital world
- Forming positive relationships
Screwball
A comedy drama for SRE (or RSE) lessons about Ryan and Natalie - two young people struggling through their first sexual encounter, and having to deal with each other's expectations, a shiny trumpet and way too many cats. It's ideal for opening up discussion about consent, peer pressure and the internet's influence on relationships. It's aimed at Key Stage 4, but if you teach Key Stage 3 it’s worth having a look as well, because you may find that it's suitable for your lower year groups. The younger the better, really. The film has been made to help teach young people the skills they need to develop positive relationships from the start, rather than having to learn from painful mistakes.
FPA
The FPA (formerly Family Planning Association) provide quality training for professionals and a range of resources to support discussing a wide range of topics including puberty, privacy, relationships and friendships, STIs, pregnancy, contraception, masturbation, lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans identities and more.
Puberty and Sexuality for Children & Young People with a Disability
This award winning teaching pack has been developed to be taught to learning disabled children and young people between the ages of 9-18 years old. It is acknowledged however that depending on the age and the cognitive ability this may vary.
It has been designed to include the needs of children and young people with severe learning disability to deliver extensive knowledge appropriate to this group but equally comparable to their mainstream peers. The pack is based on information from a variety of sources and supporting evidence. It uses an array of visual and tactile resources to enable children to maximise their learning including dance and movement, anatomically correct dolls, role play and experiential learning. It can be used with both individuals and groups of children and is effective in school, residential and home environments.
This pack was developed by the Children's Learning Disability Nursing Team (Leeds) in 2009 - much of the content is still current and relevant.
Download Puberty and Sexuality for Children & Young People with a Disability
AMAZE
AMAZE - Age appropriate info on puberty for tweens and their parents
Faculty for Sexual and Reproductive Health have produced this abortion care factsheet to support RSE lessons FSRH-RCOG abortion care factsheet to support RSE lessons - Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
The Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) launched a free resource on abortion care to support teachers with relationships and sex education (RSE) lessons in secondary schools in the UK.
RCOG/FSRH launch abortion care resource for secondary schools
The joint FSRH-RCOG factsheet aims to ensure that professionals involved in educating young people about pregnancy choices have a factually accurate, unbiased and evidence-based source of information about abortion care in the UK, one of the key points included in the DfE draft RSE guidance. It counters myths such as that abortion causes infertility, breast cancer and mental illness.
The FSRH-RCOG abortion leaflet is officially endorsed by PHE, Sex Education Forum and PSHE Association. The fact sheet and an article in the Times which highlights the anti-choice misinformation in some RSE lessons which this factsheet aims to tackle.