Y8 & Y9 PSHE Workshops – 22nd April 2024
14 Apr 2024
On Monday 22nd April, Equate will again deliver PSHE workshops in school to our Y8 and Y9 students.
Y8 Equate workshop – Personal Space – periods 2 and 3
This workshop:
- Helps students to define different zones of space – intimate, personal, social and public
- Explores the different people the students feel comfortable allowing into different zones of their space
- Ensures the young people that they can always say no to any physical closeness
- Introduces and explores the meaning of sexual content through discussions of what the students would consider an invasion of personal and intimate space.
Y9 Equate workshop – Consent – periods 4 and 5
This workshop:
- Introduces consent and what it is
- Explores what is freedom, choice and capacity to consent, and what not having the freedom to consent might look like
- Students will work with scenarios to put their learning to use in assessing what is and isn’t consensual
- Discusses verbal and non-verbal cues, both positive and negative
- Signposts young people to support and advice online and in their areas.