Sexuality Education

1. Sexuality Education Paekakariki School Parent consultation

2. What is sexuality Education? “Sexuality education is a lifelong process. It provides students with the knowledge, understanding, and skills to develop positive attitudes towards sexuality, to take care of their health, and to enhance their interpersonal relationships, now and in the future. “(Ministry of Education) .

3. Sexuality education is not sex education.It is about helping students understand and make sense of the : physical, social, emotional, and spiritual stages that they have gone through and will go through in their lives.

4. With the belief that they will understand who they are and what makes them individuals, We look at gender roles, body image, discrimination, equity, the media, values of different culture, what are beliefs, and the law.

5. Where does the requirement to teach sexuality education come from? • Schools have 8 “LEARNING AREAS” that we are required to teach: • English, • The Arts, • Health and Physical Education • Learning Languages, • Mathematics and Statistics • Science ,Social Studies and Technology

6. Sexuality Education forms part of Health & Physical Education • There are 4 parts to the Health and Physical Education Learning Area: • Personal Health and Physical development • Movement Concepts and Motor skills • Relationships with Other People • Healthy Communities and Environments.

7. Personal Health & Development deals with: “Helping students develop the knowledge understanding, skills, and attitudes that they need in order to maintain and enhance their personal well-being and physical development”

8. What are Levels All schools teach to Levels. In Primary schools there are generally four levels Level (1) is geared towards students from Ages 5-7 Level (2 ) is geared towards students from Ages 6-8 Level (3 ) is geared towards students from Ages 8-10 Level (4 ) is geared towards students from Ages 10-13

9. What is taught in Sexuality Education at Level (1) • We talk about: • Feelings. What are feelings. Describe feelings and how different feeling affect you and other people? • How Students grow. What are the important things that must happen for people to lead healthy lives? • What are their personal needs. What makes people different and why that is ok

10. What is taught in Sexuality Education at Level (2) • We talk about: • Stages of growth and development • What stages they have been through already, what might be their next stage of development, why they go through these stages, what happens in these stages. • Discuss self care • Hygiene, Healthy eating, how to keep yourself safe

11. What is taught in Sexuality Education at Level (2) • We talk about: • Stages of growth and development • What stages they have been through already, what might be their next stage of development, why they go through these stages, what happens in these stages. • Who am I. • What makes me different from other? • Discuss self care • Hygiene why it is important • How and why you need to keep yourself safe

12. What is taught in Sexuality Education Level (3) • We talk about: • Things that affect personal, physical social and emotional growth. • nutrition, illness, injury, posture, physical activity, disappointment, loss, • individual differences and skills for making friends, • Dealing with increasing independence, • achieving success. • Hygiene, • how to keep yourself safe Develop skills to manage these changes

13. What is taught in Sexuality Education Level (4) • We discuss: • The characteristics of pubertal change • What are the stages of puberty and why do they happen? • What changes take place: physically emotionally and in relationships • Why these changes take place • What are consequences of these changes? • Discuss how to care for your body during this stage

14. The Pubertal Change programme at Year 7-8 • Young people today have a great deal of information coming at them. Sex is used as a advertising tool, it oozes of magazines and newspapers; sexual activity is far more prominent through the internet and television daily the media pushes this messages, and these messages can be confusing. • What we try to do, in a factual and personal way, is to try and clarify the pubertal stage that they are going through and the effects it will have on them. • We also try and clarify the mass of information they are receiving.

15. Programme • The programme will run over four weeks and will cover a range of topics. • The majority of the lessons are interactive with a great deal of discussion and interaction: group work, role play, class debate. • There is very little written content.