Esteem Manual: 2 Puberty Collection
This collection (including 2 lesson plans) has been designed to help young people start to understand puberty. Puberty is a significant time for young people and can be very challenging. Hormones come alive, initiating physical and emotional change and awakening sexual feelings. Young people need support in understanding these changes and in managing them. During these sessions on puberty, assure the young people that what they are going through is normal and that, although their experience of puberty may be different to other people’s experiences, it is a normal part of life which is taking them on a journey towards becoming an adult.
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Esteem Manual: 3 Relationships and Sex Collection
This collection (including a lesson plan) has been designed to help young understand the importance of relationships. Sex and sexual health are explored in the context of what a good and healthy relationship looks like. These sessions should help the young people to understand why it is important for key ingredients to be in place in a relationship before sexual activity takes place. Sex is a wonderful gift and has the potential to be very good, but young people also need to know about the possible negative physical and emotional consequences of sex. These sessions should help young people to understand that delaying sex is a positive choice; equip them to delay sex; and equip them to make healthy decisions about sexual activity.
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Esteem Manual: 4 Media and Technology Collection
This collection (including 2 lesson plans) has been designed to help young people start to develop the skills to navigate the multitude of pressures modern technology can impose on their self-esteem, relationships and views on sex. We live in an age of technological advancement that is unmatched in human history. Young people are now facing both fresh opportunities and new threats to their wellbeing.
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Esteem Manual: 5 STIs Collection
This collection (including a lesson plan) has been designed to help young understand STIs but continues to keep the key messages relationship-centred. It is good to highlight that delaying sex is a great choice to make and that not everyone is having sex. Emphasise the importance and benefits of condom use for people that decide to have sex. Also explain the limitations of condoms especially for genital warts and genital herpes if the affected area of skin is not covered by the condom.
Be aware that some young people in the class may already have had unprotected sex. It is important that you deliver the session in a way that is sensitive and non-judgemental. Explain that getting tested for STIs is straight-forward and provide information about where advice and testing is available locally. Explain that a person can choose to delay sex even if they have previously engaged in sexual activity.
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Esteem Manual: 6 HIV Collection
This collection (including two example lesson plans) has been designed to help young understand the difference between HIV and AIDS, how it is transmitted and how it can be prevented. It is important to get across the message that anyone can get HIV if they are engaging in risky behaviour – it is not restricted to certain communities or people. In this country, HIV is now described as a chronic manageable disease. There is still no cure but advances in medicine mean that a person living with HIV will not necessarily go on to develop AIDS. This medication is not consistently available in all parts of the world however and HIV continues to be a very serious issue. Emphasise that people living with HIV need support, encouragement and care and should not be stigmatised.
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Esteem Manual: 7 Relationship Skills and Consent
This collection (including a lesson plan) builds on the healthy relationships materials and helps young people develop skills to for relationships. A key topic of these activities is negotiating consent.
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Esteem Manual: 8 Emotional wellbeing and coping strategies
This collection (including a lesson plan) has been designed to cover the issues of emotional wellbeing and coping strategies with young people. The materials aim to improve the emotion wellbeing and resilience of young people.
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Free Resource - Consequences of sexting
This activity has been made to help young people explore potential consequences of sending nude or sexually explicit images, especially if the image gets shared beyond the intended recipient. What are the emotional, social and legal consequences to these types of images getting shared?
Free Resource - Intimacy Pyramid
This activity has been designed to help young people think about what qualities make a healthy relationship and how sex could impact a relationship.
Free Resource - Self Esteem Statues
This activity has been made to help young people identify the feelings of low and high self-esteem and for them to start to think about what can influence them to feel that way. The activity takes about 5-10mins, requires no equipment and is aimed at young people aged 11-13 years old.
