RSHE audit toolkit: secondary - intimate and sexual relationships including sexual health
DfE: statutory guidance on relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education
Intimate and sexual relationships including sexual health - outcomes from statutory document
Pupils should know:
how to recognise the characteristics and positive aspects of healthy one-to-one intimate relationships, which include mutual respect, consent, loyalty, trust, shared interests and outlook, sex and friendship.
- that all aspects of health can be affected by choices they make in sex and relationships, positively or negatively, e.g. physical, emotional, mental, sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing.
- the facts about reproductive health, including fertility, and the potential impact of lifestyle on fertility for men and women and menopause.
- that there are a range of strategies for identifying and managing sexual pressure, including understanding peer pressure, resisting pressure and not pressurising others.
- that they have a choice to delay sex or to enjoy intimacy without sex.
- the facts about the full range of contraceptive choices, efficacy and options available.
- the facts around pregnancy including miscarriage.
- that there are choices in relation to pregnancy (with medically and legally accurate, impartial information on all options, including keeping the baby, adoption, abortion and where to get further help).
- how the different sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDs, are transmitted, how risk can be reduced through safer sex (including through condom use) and the importance of and facts about testing.
- about the prevalence of some STIs, the impact they can have on those who contract them and key facts about treatment.
- how the use of alcohol and drugs can lead to risky sexual behaviour.
- how to get further advice, including how and where to access confidential sexual and reproductive health advice and treatment.
HIV
National AIDS Trust: teachers resources
HIV Schools Pack provides guidance for educators on teaching about HIV, along with a range of engaging lesson plans and activities for learning the key facts about HIV, what it’s like living with HIV, and how to take action on HIV stigma. All resources are free to download and suitable for KS3 and 4.
Sexual health Hertfordshire: HIV
STIs
Brook: Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs): worried You have an STI?
NHS: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
Alcohol and drugs
Public Health England: Alcohol lesson plan
Contraception
Teachit: Contraception lesson and presentation | GCSE science
A complete lesson on the different methods of contraception (hormonal and non-hormonal), and how they work. Includes lesson objectives, a starter and plenary and six tasks for students to complete, including a discussion about the ethical issues surrounding contraception.
Pregnancy
Brook: Pregnancy: worried you’re pregnant?
General
Brook Learn: Relationships and sex education:
This link gives guidance to ‘How to deliver RSE’ and an ‘Introduction to RSE’. There are further links available on the page that include:
- puberty
- relationships
- consent
- pleasure
- STIS
- relationships and enduring Love?
- emergency contraception
- abortion
The PSHE Association has resources and lesson plans for KS3 and 4 pupils on topics including (some resources require membership to access):
- sending and sharing nudes
- relationship safety
- ‘something’s not right’, abuse disclosure lessons
- fertility and pregnancy choices
- consent
‘We bring together our partners and wider stakeholders to share best practice, research, monitor the provision of RSE, explore and respond to new themes and identify gaps. Working together with our partners, members and wider stakeholders is central to everything we do.
Gov.UK: Teacher training: intimate and sexual relationships, including sexual health
Practical materials for secondary schools to use to train staff to teach about intimate and sexual relationships, including sexual health.
Every care has been taken to ensure the information and any recommendations in the toolkit are accurate at the time of publishing. Schools must make their own judgements when using these resources and always risk assess with their pupils in mind.
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