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Friendship – Respect – Relationships – Trust – Consent

Healthy Relationship High School Teachers Toolkit

Today’s school pupils are growing up in a world full of opportunities but with many risks and anxieties too. While some risk-taking behaviours, such as substance misuse, appear to be in decline, other issues are emerging, particularly in relation to pupils’ mental health, relationships and safety, both offline and, increasingly, online. PDHPE education is the school subject which addresses pupils’ personal safety and their mental health while preparing them for life and work in a changing world. There is huge demand for this kind of holistic, ‘curriculum for life’ from pupils, parents and business leaders and strong evidence that it boosts attainment and life chances, particularly amongst disadvantaged pupils.
​The aim of the Healthy Relationship High School Teachers Toolkit is to give young people the information they need to help them develop healthy, nurturing relationships of all kinds, not just intimate relationships. It should enable them to know what a healthy relationship looks like and what makes a good friend, a good colleague and a successful marriage or other type of committed relationship. It should also cover developing intimate relationships and resisting pressure to have sex (and not applying pressure). It should teach what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in relationships. This will help pupils understand the positive effects that good relationships have on their mental wellbeing, identify when relationships are not right and understand how such situations can be managed.
 
This toolkit is designed to provide a menu of options for starting or deepening a conversation about relationships and consent.

Understanding and teaching about consent

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​Consent has to be the single most important topic within relationships and sex education (RSE).
 
Teaching young people about consent is important. This resource provides definitions, explanations, and resources to help health professionals and educators teach youth about consent.
 
Consent is an essential part of all interpersonal relationships. All people, including children, have the right to set boundaries related to their bodies, their possessions, and their actions. Consent is about respecting those boundaries. When consent is examined this broadly, it is clear that it applies to more than sexual interactions.
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​Sexual consent – a Teen Talk kit from Monash Education.
This toolkit is designed to provide a menu of options for starting or deepening a conversation about consent.
 
This toolkit could be used to: 
• Include new resources in sexual violence prevention education 
• Supplement school health curricula 
• Assist with planning a consent campaign
​Sexual consent – a Teen Talk kit from Monash Education.
 
What age group are the lesson plans intended for?
The guidance is relevant for all teachers. The lesson plans are intended for use with age group 11 -16. The lessons are designed to be used flexibly. Older adolescents should have an opportunity to discuss a wide range of relationships (including romantic and sexual ones) and may themselves be starting to become sexually active. Therefore lessons about consent and boundaries should acknowledge the importance of consent when it comes to sexual activities.
 
Contents:
Ten hours of consent lessons outlined in detail. Each lessons has:
  • Context and overview
  • Learning objectives
  • Intended learning outcomes
  • Climate for learning
  • Starter activity
  • Main activity #1
  • Main activity #2
  • Assessment for and of learning
  • Extension activities

INTRODUCTION
Consulting parents 
Laying the foundations 
  • Building teaching about consent into a planned PSHE education programme 
  • The importance of creating a safe classroom environment 
  • Pupils’ prior knowledge, understanding, skills, beliefs and attitudes 
  • Reflection and assessment 
  • Teaching in a non-judgemental way 
  • Ensuring teachers get the right support 
  • Grounding teaching in ‘real-life’ contexts 
  • Normative education and consent 
  • Taking sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and background into account 
  • The impact of sharing of sexual images and pornography on pupils’ attitudes towards consent 
  • Key concepts relating to consent 
  • Sexual consent and the law 


TEACHING ABOUT CONSENT  
  • Choosing which lessons to teach 
Lessons cover:
  • Lesson 1: Introducing and recognising consent
  • Lesson 2: Consent and the law
  • Lesson 3: Avoiding assumptions relating to consent
  • Lesson 4: The right to withdraw consent
  • Lesson 5: Capacity to consent
  • Lesson 6: Persuasion, pressure and coercion
  • Lesson 7: Pornography, sexual images and consent
  • Lesson 8: Rape myths and victim blaming
  • Lesson 9: Boundaries and respectful relationships
​Plus a large library of support resources and lesson plans.
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Guidance for teachers
1. Give yourself time to plan session structure and content. Have two or three learning outcomes and a good sense of where you’d like the lesson to go. 

2. Less is more. Don’t plan too much into any one lesson, leave space for discussion, sharing thoughts and views 

3. When starting out, use tried and tested lesson resources. They help you gain confidence and knowledge within the topic area. 

4. Don’t assume young people will know the basics already. If they haven’t had relationships and sex education before you will need to go over these.

 5. Familiarise yourself with laws around consent. 

6. It’s about more than “no”. Consent is often approached from the viewpoint of whether someone has said “no” or not. But sex should be something that you do wholeheartedly, with someone, not to someone. So talk about ensuring that the person you’re going to do sexual activities with gives a willing and enthusiastic “yes”, however it’s communicated.

7. Discuss capacity. To give willing and enthusiastic consent you have to be both old enough and have the capacity to give that consent. Things that affect capacity are being too young, alcohol, drugs, ill health, additional learning needs, fear and manipulation.

8. Always signpost young people to where they can get further information or help. There will be at least one person who needs this information. 

9. Always assume you have someone who is LGBT in your lesson (even if they themselves don’t know it yet) and make sure that your lesson is inclusive to them. 

10.Consent is a lifelong issue. If teaching any RSE consent material triggers unwanted feelings about experiences you’ve been through, please use this as an opportunity to seek the help and support you need.

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The amount of sexuality education young people receive is typically too little, too late. The amount of education relating to sexual consent is almost nonexistent and happens even later, if it happens at all. If we truly want young people to learn to treat others with respect; if we truly want to support them in growing to be sexually healthy adults; if we truly understand that youth have as much right to give their consent to sexual relationships as they do to refuse sex, we must start discussions earlier and keep them going throughout their childhood, adolescence, and young adult years.
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Sample resources

consent_introduction.pdf
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lesson_3.pdf
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lesson_6.pdf
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teaching_about_consent_sample.pdf
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cross_the_line_gender_violence_bo.pdf
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