Resources

We are delighted to launch a new suite of lessons for members on managing healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviours, produced in partnership with Medway Public Health.

The resource — comprising teacher guidance and three lesson plans (available as PDFs and PowerPoints) — will support students to recognise the qualities of healthy relationships, exhibit healthy relationship behaviours, identify the features of unhealthy or unsafe relationships/family situations and know how to seek help if they or others are facing abusive circumstances.

• NEW  Lesson A: family conflict: the links between emotional wellbeing and relationship conflict, and the implications of this.
• Lesson 1: identifying healthy and unhealthy relationships: identifying features of healthy relationships and when a relationship may be unsafe.
• Lesson 2: managing conflict in relationships: exploring the nature of disagreements in a healthy relationship compared to unhealthy relationship conflict
• Lesson 3: addressing relationship abuse: identifying abusive relationship behaviours, sources of support and safe exit strategies

Medway Public Health Directorate have been working with the PSHE Association for a number of years to support teachers in their area to deliver high quality PSHE education and have kindly agreed to share these new materials with PSHE Association members across the country.

PSHE Association Subject Specialist Anne Bell said:
“It’s really important we get learning on abuse in relationships right, so we educate in line with evidence of best practice in PSHE education. As part of a developmental relationships and sex education programme, these materials can support teachers to plan relevant, safe lessons.”

See also: Medway Public Health Directorate's relationships and sex education schemes of work for key stages 1-3