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Building Confidence to Deliver Secondary Relationships, Sex and Health Education 

Teach secondary RSHE with confidence, even when it isn't your subject and a question comes out of nowhere.

  • 52 minutes
  • 7 modules
  • 1 CPD hour
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Explain what the statutory RSHE framework asks of secondary schools
  • Set your own views aside and present a balanced range of viewpoints
  • Build a group agreement with your class that makes lessons feel safe
  • Handle personal, embarrassing or inappropriate questions and comments calmly
  • Signpost pupils to support in school and beyond in every lesson

About this course

If you've been timetabled for RSHE on top of your own subject, the worry usually isn't the lesson plan. It's the question from the back row about porn, or the personal one aimed at you.

You don't need to be an expert in every topic. You need to prepare, set your own views aside and run the room well. This course shows you how, from someone who has spent most of her career teaching it. Build a group agreement with your class that includes "no personal questions", so you've always got something to point back to. Use named sticky notes or a question box to buy thinking time and catch any safeguarding worries. And have a plain, factual answer ready for the question asked just to get a laugh.

You'll also be clear on what the statutory framework asks of schools, including parents' right to withdraw from sex education.

  • For early career teachers and teachers. Secondary. England only.

7 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    2 min

  2. The statutory framework

    8 min

  3. Why is RSHE important?

    11 min

  4. What makes a great RSHE teacher?

    10 min

  5. Creating a safe climate for learning

    12 min

  6. Managing discussions and questions

    11 min

  7. Wrap up

    2 min