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Puberty Education – When, Why and How?

Plan puberty education that starts before pupils need it and builds each year, with activities that get the whole class talking.

  • 32 minutes
  • 6 modules
  • 0.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Plan puberty education that builds from Year 4 to Year 6 around your pupils
  • Find out what pupils already know with brainstorms, quizzes and discussion
  • Use a puberty product bag for bingo, sorting and discussion
  • Help children use the scientific words for the body with confidence
  • Assess learning through role play, problem texts and revisiting brainstorms

About this course

By the time a one-off puberty lesson comes round in the summer of Year 6, some of your pupils started the changes months ago. Better to plan teaching that builds from Year 4 (or earlier, if your pupils need it) towards the RSHE outcomes for the end of primary, and this course shows you how.

You'll find out what your class already knows with a brainstorm on a body outline, then teach with activities children enjoy. A bag of real puberty products gives you bingo, sorting games and desert island choices, and boys are often the most curious about the sanitary products. Pupils design puberty emojis and use them to reply to texts from worried children.

It's taught by an RSHE specialist with more than 20 years' experience, and there are simple ways to check what's been learned without a written test.

  • For teachers. Primary.

6 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    4 min

  2. Puberty education that meets the needs of learners

    6 min

  3. What to teach and when?

    8 min

  4. Practical activities for learning

    11 min

  5. Wrap up

    1 min

  6. How do we know it’s working?

    5 min