Guidance
Teaching about relationships, sex and health
Support and practical resources for schools to help train teachers on relationships, sex and health education.
From September 2020 all schools must follow the statutory guidance when teaching relationships sex and health education.
Working with sector experts, we have developed these resources to help schools:
- improve teacher confidence when teaching this curriculum
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Read the relationships sex and health education statutory guidance which explains what schools must teach by law.
Train teachers on relationships, sex and health education
Practical training sessions and resources for curriculum coordinators or subject leads to support and train teachers.
The training sessions have been split into different topics within the curriculum. You can adapt the sessions to fit your school context.
Each session contains:
- information on what schools must teach for that topic
- tips on how to improve confidence and handle difficult questions
- ideas for activities to help schools teach that topic
- links to resources and best practice examples
Several of these topics are closely related, you should consider this when planning your curriculum and lesson plans.
Training sessions for all schools
Teaching about mental wellbeing
Teaching inclusively about family units
Teaching about preventing bullying
Training sessions for primary schools
Training sessions for secondary schools
Teaching about harmful content online such as pornography
Teaching about drugs and alcohol risks
Teaching about gender identity
Teaching about female genital mutilation (FGM)
Develop your curriculum
Advice and information to help school leaders plan and develop their new curriculum to make sure it follows the new statutory curriculum.
This includes:
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Plan your relationships, sex and health curriculum
See other schools’ experiences
Best practice examples from school leaders, teachers and sector experts to help schools teach relationship, sex and health education.
Read tips from school leaders on:
- embedding the curriculum
- developing a school policy for relationships and sex education
- curriculum planning
- working with external stakeholders such as school nurses, public health and other expert organisations
- training staff on the new curriculum
- engaging parents
- managing difficult discussions in the classroom
- safeguarding and responding to disclosures
- teaching mental health
- teaching online safety
- developing LGBT+ inclusivity of content
- how to maintain professional boundaries
- teaching about drugs
- teaching health education