PSHE Association Guidance for teaching about consent KS1-KS5:
PSHE Association guidance on planning and teaching statutory PSHE education content effectively. Includes lesson plans.
Hampshire Police’s Safe4Me toolkit: Sexual consent
Contains links to scenarios which can be used to teach the topic of sexual consent, including a house party and a nightclub scenario.
Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning: Understanding Consent
A lesson for primary school students which teaches consent through an Aardman animation. The lesson aims are to ensure that students understand what is meant by consent, the importance of gaining, as well as giving, consent and know that consent can be withdrawn at any time.
Skills4Bradford: Year 7 RSE Lessons
Downloadable Year 7 lessons on topics such as Peer Pressure and Consent and Puberty and Consent.
A New Direction: Consent and Healthy Relationships
A KS3 Secondary classroom resource for the RSE or RHE curriculum. Through class discussion, poetry and their own creative writing, students will explore the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships. They will work together to examine and communicate what a caring and respectful relationship looks like and will further their exploration on what consent means for them and the issues surrounding consent.
Facing History and Ourselves: Eric’s decision and consent
A GCSE lesson in which students consider the role power plays in the interactions between characters in An Inspector Calls, focusing on the relationship between Eric and Eva, before discussing consent.
NSPCC Learning: PANTS resources for schools and teachers
Free Talk PANTS resources, teaching children the Underwear Rule to help keep them safe from abuse. Includes lesson plans, slide presentations, and classroom activities to help schools and nurseries talk PANTS with children, without ever using scary words or even mentioning sex.
A video for secondary students which explores consent through a series of scenarios, demonstrating how people react when their boundaries are crossed. The video features a conversation with a friend about consent in the context of using a phone, highlighting the complexities of consent beyond a simple yes or no.
Oak National Academy: Reporting Issues of Consent
This lesson for KS4 students includes how to seek help/support for issues around sexual consent and what to expect if concerns are reported.
Information on what consent means, why ‘yes’ doesn’t always mean consent, what consent looks like and the age of consent.
Police Service of Northern Ireland: Sexual Consent Myths and Facts
A summary of facts about sexual consent and a myth-busting section.
Real Love Rocks is an education and awareness raising programme developed by Barnardo’s Safer Futures Trauma Services. Promoting children and young people’s rights to healthy, consensual and safe relationships with peers, partner, their family and across their community is at the heart of this.
‘We believe that the topics we cover in school such as consent is just as important if not more so than English and maths when preparing ourselves for the real world as it teaches us how to respect those around us.’ (Students from Immanuel College)
‘Consent is really important to me as it is a vital part of our day-to-day life and it helps us to ensure that everyone is being treated correctly. I became involved in Relationships Reset as I want to try to make a difference. As part of the project, I shared our definition of consent around school, and educated other students about how consent works’. (Maksym, student at Bridgemary School)
‘It is incredibly important to give all students, but especially our most vulnerable students, a strong and confident voice when it comes to consent and their own bodies. It can be tricky negotiating these kinds of topics so good quality resources ensure that we are all saying the same thing and that we are confident as staff to deliver the content’. (Kissi Wilde, SEND Co-Ordinator, Belle Vue Girls’ Academy)