Year 11 “Building Healthy Relationships” Day

Year 11 “Building Healthy Relationships” Day

Earlier this term 150 Year 11 students participated in a “Building Healthy Relationships” Day, the for purpose for which is to help students’ make healthy choices about sex & relationships through engaging lessons, workshops and drama with specialist external guests.

Loudmouth started the day with “Safe & Sound” – a powerful theatre in education programme that helps young people to think about the quality of the relationships they develop & raises their awareness of the misuse of power and control so they can safeguard themselves against abusive relationships. “Explore” allowed married couples to help students discover the realities of long-term commitment. The Ethos Team also delivered workshops on “Consent” while linking this concept to the law & respect while “Naked Truth” highlighted the risks and impact of pornography.

Our students were asked to feedback on what they had learnt and the following feedback was obtained:

• 90% said they “are more able to spot the warning signs of unhealthy relationships”
• 90% said they “better understand the value of marriage and commitment “
• 93% said they “are more aware of the risks of pornography”
• 95% said they “know where to get confidential help or advice’’

Some additional information that our students said they had learnt included:

• “I learnt the ways you can see someone being controlling and the solutions that you can do to avoid a bad relationship”
• ”Consent is very important – it is normal to say no”
• “I learnt what consent is and how to ask for it”
• “Consent shouldn’t be forced, it has to be mutual”