We believe all students deserve empowering and confidence-building relationships and sex education (RSE) lessons in all schools. We're here help you deliver this in your institution. Our aim is to help all teachers feel confident about RSE.
This is our one-hour RSE curriculum-aligned teacher training workshop for private schools. Our sessions focuses on the most effective methods of teaching foundational concepts, the most common problems students face in our workshops and how to tackle them as teachers and safeguarding leads, and how to navigate the sometimes awkward nature of RSE (i.e. embrace the giggles and investigate what they tell us about student anxieties).
We deliver this programme in person (for institutions based in and around London or Brighton) or online for those further afield. We tailor our content to your needs and the interests of your teachers.
We can cover the teaching of any of the following four crucial RSE topics:
- Periods,
- Consent,
- Gender and sexuality, or
- Bullying, friendships and being kind.
It is important for all teachers to feel confident about RSE as students may confide in any staff member with safeguarding problems they face, including sexual harassment, and it's vital their concerns are met with the right support in the first instance, or they be less likely to seek help in the future when they need it.
Our teacher training sessions reflect our experience teaching these subjects to thousands of students from Year 3 to sixth form each year. Our student workshops deliver the following content:
- Periods and period poverty
- The politics behind periods
- Facts about periods and the menstrual cycle
- Menopause
- How boys can help end period stigma
- What kinds of products can be used
- What to do if your period stops
- Friendships and bullying
- Why friendships and bullying matters to your mental and physical wellbeing
- Self-love
- Beauty myths
- How to choose your friends
- How the law protects students
- how to defeat a bully and to question whether students have ever been a bully without realising
- Gender and sexuality
- Why it's important to learn about gender and sexuality
- How the law has improved equal rights for everyone, while debating whether we still have a way to go
- The concept of gender and sex
- Explore how the two concepts above intertwine
- Terms such as asexual, homosexual, heterosexual, etc, and how they interrelate
- What comprises a healthy relationship
- The idea of marriage and analysing myths associated with it
- Consent
- The politics behind consent debates
- The law and legal power we all have
- What consent actually looks like
- How students know what they want to do
- Whether anyone or anything can give consent for you (they can't)
- Whether consent is important in other settings, such as in public
We will explore with your teachers how students tend to respond to these subjects, what games we play to bring the content to life, and how to approach challenging topics including those related to consent.
We work with a strict safe space policy where students can ask questions and discuss without judgement or fear of backlash.
Once purchased, we will organise a call with you to ensure we deliver the content most needed in your institution. We will then find a date and time for us to deliver this workshop.
Haig Howard, Deputy Head Pastoral at St Andrew's School, Pangbourne, said:
"Laura came to St Andrew’s on a beautiful sunny morning to talk to our Year 6, 7 and 8s about topics ranging from Bullying to Consent and Periods. This was part of our PSHEE/RSE course requirement and all pupils responded fantastically. Any stigmas were immediately overcome as the children (who were in mixed “break-out” year groups for much of the morning) spoke freely to one another and answered questions willingly within a larger forum.
"I thoroughly urge schools to invite Laura and the team to talk about these issues in a relevant and up-to-date manner – our pupils took so much from it all and we will definitely be inviting Laura back again!"