Esteem

During the past academic year, we welcomed 54 new members to the Esteem network of relationships and sex educators, after they attended one of our 4 day Esteem RSE training courses. This means more and more young people are being reached with good quality RSE.

We ran a number of courses in the last year - in Surrey, Luton, Chester, Nottingham, and Northampton - equipping participants to deliver relationships and sex education to young people. The course helps educators:

So another academic year draws to an end, and we look back on all the relationships and sex educations sessions we have run this year with the young people of Southwark. It's been another amazing year spent with amazing young people!

1462 students from year seven right through to sixth form attended at least one of our sessions. Sessions were run on a range of topics including friendships, self-esteem and body image, puberty, relationships and sex, and consent.

This month we have delivered two parents’ workshops in Kent, supporting parents and carers in how to have conversations with their children about bodies, relationships and sex.

Alongside discussing topics such as child development and the teenage brain, we also discussed the prevalence of social media use amongst young people, highlighting some of the messages about relationships and sex they may encounter online. We helped the parents to explore different approaches to having ongoing honest conversations with their children rather than focusing on delivering ‘the talk’!

In our ‘relationships and consent’ sessions with year 10 or 11, we start off by asking students to write down any words they can think of, that are used today as words for sex.

When they have fed back these words, we ask them what they think. The young people recognise that many of the words are violent and aggressive, especially towards women.

Through discussion, we are then able to explore with the students where this language originates from e.g. from music lyrics, films and social media.

Your support enables us to develop new resources to strengthen our own education delivery and also to support parents, teachers and youth workers.

Check out the Resources section of the acet UK website to find our ‘Top Tips’ book, which is designed to help parents talk to their children about puberty, relationships and sex; and our new ‘Relationships and Sex Education Reference Guide’ which brings together relevant and up to date relationships and sex education facts and figures, all in one handy A5 booklet.

1. ESTEEM is a project of acet UK (AIDS Care Education and Training). acet UK is a registered charity, number 299293, and a private company limited by guarantee incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 2245302 whose registered office is at Abbey House, Abbey Green, Chester, CH1 2JH; and

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Pornhub, the world’s largest porn site, reports that in 2017 the globally most searched for term was ‘lesbian’. Their annual statistics show that what some educators might consider fringe sexual interests are now very popular online. In particular, Japanese animated pornography (called Hentai) and family related terms such as ‘step mom‘, and ’step sister‘ all appear above more traditional expected pornographic terms such as ‘massage’, ‘threesome’ and ‘cheerleader’.