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Sexual Readiness

This lesson challenges students to think of personal decision making in relation to sexual activity. 

Learning intentions:

  • Consider factors that impact sexual decision making
  • Explore factors that impact sexual readiness
  • Investigate strategies for assessing and responding to situations involving sexual activity
  • Adopt a framework of safety, respect and agency when evaluating sexual decision making

Digital Educator: Chloe

  • 12-30 learners

    Class size

  • 10+

    Year Level

  • 45-60 minutes

    Course duration

  • One

    Student Handouts

    Preparing for the lesson

    Information
    Resources

    ACHPE Objectives

    UNESCO Objectives

    Safety & Wellbeing

    Sequence
    Extension
    In this Sexual Readiness lesson, students will expand on the concepts of decision making and sexual activity.

    Students will begin with knowledge sharing on a sexual activity in relationships and the supporting factors of safe and healthy sexual relationships. They will then read through a handout proposing a series of questions that young people could consider when deciding if and when to be sexually active. Discussing their thoughts and feelings about this list (not their own sexual readiness) students will work in small groups to explore couple dynamics through role play. 

    Each lesson ends with a consolidation activity, inviting students to list 1 thing they have learnt from the lesson, 1 thing they already knew, 1 piece of advice they would share with a friend, and 1 adult or organisation that would be helpful in relation to the lesson topic.  

    This lesson is adapted from the work of Al Vernacchio.

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    Student Printouts

    Additional Student Resources

    AC9HP10P04: Evaluate the influence of respect, empathy, power and coercion on establishing and maintaining respectful relationships.
    • Investigating the characteristics of positive, respectful relationships and the rights and ethical responsibilities of individuals in relationships.  
    • Investigating how the balance of power influences the nature of relationships and proposing actions that can be taken when a relationship is not respectful.  


    AC9HP10P08:     Plan, rehearse and evaluate strategies for managing situations where their own or others’ health, safety or wellbeing may be at risk.
    • Understanding the factors that impact a person’s ability to seek, give or deny consent, including when there is an imbalance of power or coercion in the relationship.
    Key Concept 5: Skills for Health and Wellbeing
    5.3 Communication, Refusal and Negotiation Skills.
    • Key idea: Effective communication uses different modes and styles, and is important to expressing and understanding wishes, needs and personal boundaries.
    • This lesson can be challenging for students who have been coerced or pressured into engaging in sexual activity before they were ready. It is important to recognise that as much as we can have a framework for making decisions, this requires agency and respectful and equal spaces that support consent. Not everyone has been given this opportunity. 
    1. Students can create a decision matrix, app, or promotional material that guides a user through sexual decision making. 
    2. Students can download the New Zealand app 'Beyond The Birds & Bees: Te Puawaitanga' and explore the topics  before presenting to the class.
    Ideally, you will have scope to deliver all of the lessons in your program. However we understand that many schools have limited capacity to do so. Should you find yourself having to implement part of this program, we have provided a suggested sequence of lessons within the broader skills and knowledge categories of relationship, consent, gender, and health & legal literacy. We recommend delivering at least one lesson from each category.

    1. Group Agreements & Pod Mapping should be the first lesson as per best practice.
    2. Sex, Ethics & Alcohol: Can They Mix? is better delivered later in the program when students are more familiar with the Respect Collective curriculum.

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