Practice Examples - London
Pre-view - Parent Researched Education Valuing Involvement,
Empowerment and Wisdom
The Pre-view method involves parents reading
and assessing materials to inform development of SRE/PSHE
work in schools in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
Tender's Healthy Relationship
Education project
Tender have developed a drama-based project that supports
young people to look in-depth at relationship issues - an aspect of
SRE that is often neglected.
Teacher training model sustains
improvement to school SRE
The Christopher Winter Project (CWP) has developed a
practical and convenient model of in-class teacher training that is
carried out entirely within the school site and school time.
A new primary scheme of work improves
SRE in Croydon
Healthy Schools Croydon developed a new Scheme of Work for
Primary SRE that covers reception to Year 6. The Scheme was
endorsed by Council Chief Executives and the local primary head
teacher's association.
West Thames College - involving young
people in service development
Student involvement has been key in the development and
everyday running of an on-site confidential drop-in
centre. Young people are encouraged to get involved in
promoting the service by becoming volunteers.
Varied opportunities for youth
involvement at Woodhouse College
The college provides students with many opportunties to make a
difference and have a voice; peer education, the college
council and work done with the charity Envision.
Motorvations - something for the
weekend
Motorvations is a voluntary sector organisation in Havering
providing Foundation Learning with a focus on motor mechanics.
Sexual health is covered in one of the core educational sessions
and is facilitated by a visiting health worker from the local
authority.
Talk about choice
This SRE programme delivered by specialist voluntary
sector organisation, Education for Choice, gives young people the
facts about pregnancy choices including abortion. Joint winner of
the Pamela Sheridan Award 2010.
Waltham
Forest Primary School, No Outsiders project
A Waltham Forest primary school decided to tackle sexual
orientation and homophobic bullying across the whole school with
the help of the 'No Outsiders' project.
SRE
training within Jewish youth movements
During the summer months JAT is invited to run SRE sessions at many
of the Jewish youth movement camps. SRE sessions at camp have some
unique qualities, which are explored in this case-study.
Healthy Schools kite-marking
The Richmond local authority and Youth Service
developed a kitemark for agencies and partners delivering
PSHE.
Sex
FM
Sex FM is a forum theatre production that addresses themes
such as teenage pregnancy and relationships and enables young
people to rehearse their negotiation and communication skills.
'Kiss
& Tell' from the Little Fish Theatre Company
Kiss and Tell is a theatre in education programme that
aims to offer intervention and prevention strategies to help reduce
the incidence of unwanted sexual contact and sexual bullying
amongst young people.
Faith
considerations: primary school parents meeting
The Tower Hamlets Healthy Schools Team supported a primary
school developing its SRE policy hold a meeting for parents,
the majority of which come from the Bangladeshi Muslim
community.
Faith considerations - writing SRE
guidance
Tower Hamlets local authority decided to produce local
guidelines for schools on the teaching of sex and
relationships including information about the attitudes of the
major faith groups represented in the borough.
The Christopher Winter
Project
Over 90% of Hackney schools have chosen to participate in
the Christopher Winter Project, which provides them with skilled
professional support, including team teaching.
Teenage pregnancy
prevention programme (TP3)
'TP3' is a 6-8 week SRE programme suitable for a range of settings,
which is being implemented in a number of schools and pupil
referral units in Croydon.
Structured SRE programme for young
people with epilepsy and other special educational needs
The Further Education College at the National Centre for
Young People with Epilepsy (NCYPE) runs an intensive
SRE course in small single-sex groups as part of the Life
Skills programme.
Health themed coffee
mornings for young women and young men
Creating a safe space for young women and young men to talk
separately about health and well-being topics helped widen access
to the on-site sexual health service at City and Islington Sixth
Form College.
Building
relationships between secular and faith-based organisations; a
case-study in sexual health promotion
This case-study describes how voluntary sector
organisation Naz Project London is building and sustaining links
with Muslim communities.
A working strategy
for SRE; from faith-based organisation JAT
By working with existing cultural and faith structures and
institutions such as youth movements and Sunday schools JAT (Jewish
Action and Training for sexual health) has helped a wide range of
adults working with Jewish young people to address SRE confidently,
competently and appropriately.
Partnership model - between
specialist agency, school and local PCT
Image in Action, a voluntary sector specialist SRE agency with 23
years' experience of working with pupils with learning disabilities
through partnership projects in special and mainstream schools,
supported Springhallow special school in Ealing with their SRE over
three academic years.
Reviewing input of external
visitors - Sutton
In the London Borough of Sutton a review of external visitors in
SRE was carried out with a particular focus on school nurses and
family planning nurses as they contributed to SRE in most secondary
schools in the area.
Sexual health outreach
services in Croydon Colleges
Sexual health outreach services have been set up in all three
Croydon colleges and run by the young people's sexual health
outreach nurse.
Core
Curriculum for SRE
The Government Office for London has produced a Core Curriculum for
SRE. This resource includes suggested schemes of work from
Foundation stage to Year 11 and case-studies from several London
boroughs.
SASHES peer
education
A structured peer education project based in schools which
gives young people the chance to visit a local sexual health
service and then pass their learning onto peers.
Teentalk@Kidbrooke
A multi-pronged approach to the well-being of students at Kidbrooke
School including a confidential forum for one-to-one discussions
with health professionals.
Camden and Islington: mock visits to
local clinics
An effective method of targeting young people
attending further education who face particular barriers in
accessing sexual health services.
South Thames
College: embedding sexual health in the
curriculum
Describes a variety of projects which explore sexual
health within the college curriculum and engage young people
intensively as active participants.