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Brook’s Big RSE LEsson: Are you Feeling it?

Wednesday 11th September 2024, 10am-11am | Year 9 and above

Read this in Welsh/darllen hwn yn cymraeg

For decades Brook has taken a holistic approach to sexual health, recognising that physical and emotional wellbeing are inseparable. But with mental health in decline and STIs on the rise, it’s more important than ever to talk about how the two intersect.

In celebration of Brook’s Sexual Health Week 2024: Are You Feeling It?, our Big RSE Lesson will empower young people to take care of their mental health and, in turn, support healthy decision-making when it comes to their sexual health and wellbeing.

This free 60-minute live broadcast is aimed at students in Year 9 and above. Focusing on a life-course approach to wellbeing, the lesson aims to explore the importance of young people’s mental health in supporting them to make healthy choices as they mature and develop more intimate relationships. By the end of the session, students will be able to:

Define mental health and sexual health and how they contribute to overall wellbeing.
Evaluate whether certain things are likely to have a positive or negative impact on our mental health.
Understand the role of mental health in maintaining healthy relationships and good sexual health.
Feel empowered to make healthy choices when it comes to sex and relationships.
Understand how to look after mental and sexual health, including accessing services.
Know where to get help and support with mental and sexual health.

It would be useful if the young people viewing the broadcast have access to a smart phone or personal device. We will be asking some questions on mentimeter.com and we would like as many people to take part as possible.

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The 2019 statutory RSHE guidance states that by the end of secondary school, pupils should know:

how to critically evaluate when something they do or are involved in has a positive or negative effect on their own or others’ mental health.
the similarities and differences between the online world and the physical world, including: the impact of unhealthy or obsessive comparison with others online (including through setting unrealistic expectations for body image), how people may curate a specific image of their life online, over-reliance on online relationships including social media, the risks related to online gambling including the accumulation of debt, how advertising and information is targeted at them and how to be a discerning consumer of information online.
how to recognise the characteristics and positive aspects of healthy one-to-one intimate relationships, which include mutual respect, consent, loyalty, trust, shared interests and outlook, sex and friendship.
that there are a range of strategies for identifying and managing sexual pressure, including understanding peer pressure, resisting pressure and not pressurising others.
about the prevalence of some STIs, the impact they can have on those who contract them and key facts about treatment. • how the use of alcohol and drugs can lead to risky sexual behaviour.
how to get further advice, including how and where to access confidential sexual and reproductive health advice and treatment.
to understand what can affect wellbeing and resilience (e.g. life changes, relationships, achievements and employment)

The PSHE Association includes:

H2. to understand what can affect wellbeing and resilience (e.g. life changes, relationships, achievements and employment)
H5. to recognise and manage internal and external influences on decisions which affect health and wellbeing
H12. how to recognise when they or others need help with their mental health and wellbeing; sources of help and support and strategies for accessing what they need
H21. how to access health services when appropriate
H36. that certain infections can be spread through sexual activity and that barrier contraceptives offer some protection against certain sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
R2. indicators of positive, healthy relationships and unhealthy relationships, including online
R12. that everyone has the choice to delay sex, or to enjoy intimacy without sex
R18. to manage the strong feelings that relationships can cause (including sexual attraction)
R24. that consent is freely given; that being pressurised, manipulated or coerced to agree to something is not giving consent, and how to seek help in such circumstances
R26. how to seek, give, not give and withdraw consent (in all contexts, including online)
R27. that the seeker of consent is legally and morally responsible for ensuring that consent has been given; that if consent is not given or is withdrawn, that decision should always be respected

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Previous Live lessons

Brook’s RSE Live Lessons are free, hour-long interactive live-stream broadcasts about different RSE topics. The lessons take place on the LearnLive platform but are also available to watch on demand – watch them with your class, or watch to improve your own knowledge and confidence in delivering RSE.

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The Big Period Lesson 2

This 60-minute session for Year 6 and 7s is delivered in partnership with Lil-Lets. lTopics include:

Understand key facts about periods, period pains and heavy menstrual bleeding
Learn about different period products and how to manage menstrual cycles
Understand how periods and hormones can affect mental health

Watch The Big Period Lesson 2

Playing It Safe: The Big RSE Lesson

In celebration of Brook’s 2023 Sexual Health Week: Playing it Safe, our Big RSE Lesson empowered young people to understand and challenge gender stereotypes.

This live lesson on Understanding and Challenging Gender Stereotypes is aimed at students in Year 9 and above. Topics covered include:

Gender stereotypes
Real-world impacts of misogyny
Types of online gender-based abuse

Watch The Big RSE Lesson

The Big Period Lesson

To celebrate the fourth year of our partnership with Lil-Lets, we delivered the Big Period Lesson Live. More than 57,600 people tuned in to the live broadcast, making it our biggest Live Lesson yet!

This live lesson aimed at Years 6 and 7 helps make sure young people learn about puberty in a timely and age-appropriate way.

Puberty and body changes
Name of reproductive organs
Menstrual cycle and periods

Watch The Big Period Lesson

Breaking Barriers: Big RSE Lesson

To celebrate the 2022 Sexual Health Week theme of Breaking Barriers, our big RSE lesson, aimed at Year 9 and above, focuses on how to ask for help and where to go for support related to all parts of life including sexual health and wellbeing.

Recognise it can be difficult to talk about some topics
Strategies for talking about challenging topics
Support services and how to access them

Watch Breaking Barriers RSE Lesson

LGBT+ History: Big RSE Lesson

Around 15,000 young people tuned in for Brook’s online RSE lesson celebrating LGBT+ history month 2022.

The lesson, aimed at Year 9 and above, explores the richness of LGBT+ history with the aim of challenging stereotypes, promoting understanding and celebrating diversity.

Key moments in LGBT+ history
Influential LGBT+ history
Importance of allyship
Myth-busting quiz

Watch the LGBT+ History RSE Lesson

Gwers Fawr Brook – Addysg Rhyw a Chydberthynas: Are you Feeling It?

Dydd Mercher 11 Medi 2024, 10am

Ers degawdau, mae Brook wedi mabwysiadu dull cyfannol o ymdrin ag iechyd rhywiol, gan gydnabod bod llesiant corfforol ac emosiynol yn mynd law yn llaw. Ond wrth i iechyd meddwl ddirywio, ac wrth i achosion o heintiau a drosglwyddir yn rhywiol gynyddu, mae siarad am sut mae’r ddau beth yn croestorri yn bwysicach nag erioed.

I ddathlu Wythnos Iechyd Rhywiol Brook: Are You Feeling It?, bydd Gwers Fawr Brook – Addysg Rhyw a Chydberthynas yn grymuso pobl ifanc i ofalu am eu hiechyd meddwl. Bydd hefyd yn eu cefnogi i wneud penderfyniadau iach o ran eu llesiant a’u hiechyd rhywiol.

Mae’r darllediad byw hwn, sy’n para 60 munud, wedi’i anelu at fyfyrwyr ym mlwyddyn 9 ac uwch. Gan ganolbwyntio ar ddull cwrs bywyd o ymdrin â llesiant, nod y wers hon yw archwilio pwysigrwydd iechyd meddwl pobl ifanc o ran eu cefnogi i wneud dewisiadau iach wrth iddynt aeddfedu a datblygu perthnasoedd rhywiol. Erbyn diwedd y sesiwn, byddwch yn gallu:

Diffinio iechyd meddwl ac iechyd rhywiol a sut maent yn cyfrannu at lesiant yn gyffredinol.
Gwerthuso a yw rhai pethau penodol yn debygol o gael effaith gadarnhaol neu negyddol ar ein hiechyd meddwl.
Deall rôl iechyd meddwl o ran cynnal perthnasoedd iach ac iechyd rhywiol da.
Teimlo eich bod wedi’ch grymuso i wneud dewisiadau iach o ran rhyw a pherthnasoedd.
Deall sut i ofalu am iechyd meddwl ac iechyd rhywiol, gan gynnwys cael gafael ar wasanaethau.

Gwybod ble i gael help a chefnogaeth gydag iechyd meddwl ac iechyd rhywiol

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I gael rhagor o wybodaeth am addysg a hyfforddiant Brook, gan gynnwys adnoddau rhad ac am ddim am amrywiaeth o bynciau yn Gymraeg ac yn Saesneg, ewch i brook.org.uk/education

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