Sexual abuse toolkit: teaching resources (secondary)
The resources listed may not all may not be fully LGBT inclusive to meet the requirements of the RSHE curriculum because of their date of publication. With this in mind , however, they do remain recommended resources. On this page you will find downloadable resources and links to the following:
- Lesson plans and resources
- Videos
- Performances and workshops
Lesson plans
PSHCE long term view planning document from Roundwood Park School
This demonstrates well the spiral curriculum, and how learning about sexual abuse is developed cumulatively over the course of KS3 and KS4.
Below are some lessons on consent, taken from the long term view planning document.
Resources from Sandringham school
PSHE Association quality developed/assured lesson plans
A set of lesson plans relating to consent includes a specific lesson on pornography, sexual images and consent.
PSHE Association: Guidance on teaching about consent in PSHE education (key stages 3 & 4)
Pornography
This set of lessons for key stage 3 students lays groundwork for exploring pornography by looking at how relationships are portrayed in the media.
PSHE Association: BBFC KS3 lessons: Making choices: sex, relationships and BBFC Age ratings
Something’s not right
Free-to-download lessons from the Home Office, for key stage 3-5 students, support the ‘Something’s not Right’ campaign on recognising and making disclosures about different forms of abuse.
PSHE Association: Home Office: Something's not right
NSPCC
It’s not OK
Teaching resources about positive relationships, how to recognise concerning or abusive behaviour and what to do about it for use with children and young people aged 11+.
NSPCC: It's Not OK: teaching resources about positive relationships
Childnet
Crossing the Line PSHE toolkit
Films and lesson plans to explore online issues with pupils 11-14 years old. Includes Sexting video ‘Just Send it.
EC Publishing
Comprehensive lessons plans and teaching resources for PSHE.
Home Office
Expect respect: a toolkit for addressing teen relationship abuse in Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 (2011)
Relevant and useful resources including online risks. Slight adaptations to include the newer online risks would be easy to insert.
DERA: a toolkit for addressing teen relationship abuse in Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 (2011)
The Sex Education Forum
The forum has expanded and updated their material on consent. Free to members and inexpensive to purchase if a non-member from the link below. Wider focused issues also available to purchase from Sex Education Forum NCB's shop. See the consent and pornography issues.
Videos
Is this sexual harrassment?
Social experiment hosted by journalist and presenter Ben Zand in which a group of people come together to try to understand what constitutes sexual harassment.
YouTube: Is this sexual harrassment?
Crossing the line PSHE toolkit
YouTube: Sexting - just send it
This is abuse video
One of several short videos shown on TV. Powerful dramatisation of an abusive teen relationship appropriate for lesson use (13-18).
Channel 4 Sex Education Show 2014
Links to all videos – staff should watch these as a source of information and select sections they wish to share with young people. Particularly good on impact of porn on and sexualisation of children and young people.
Sex Ed Rescue: TV shows about sex education
Average teen watches 90 minutes of porn per week; countering porn assumptions.
YouTube: The Sex Education Show TV: Season 2 episode 1
The early sexualisation of children and images from pop or porn? survey; countering porn assumptions
YouTube: The Sex Education Show TV: Season 4 episode 3
Consumption and impact of porn – porn viewed as education by young people; requests for sexting ‘normal now’ (single ref. to Blackberry messenger)
YouTube: Generation sex: kids see porn as 'education'
UK Safer Internet Centre Childnet International (12-16)
Excellent video exploring a sexting story and different friends’ opinions and advice
Performances and workshops
Tip of the iceberg
Tip of the Iceberg delivers creative educational projects that explore current issues, relationships, sex and health education. They have a wide range of packages that meet the PSHE Association and new government statutory requirements including full length productions, residency, dropdown, off-timetable and activity days, interactive workshops, assemblies, talks, films and videos, teaching resources and teacher training.