SRE for students with learning difficulties

Guidance materials and lesson ideas to support the teaching of sex and relationships education for students with special educational needs

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Ideas For Helping Students With SEN Understand Sex & Relationships Education

Resources to support the delivery of relationships and sex education to young people with SEN

The relationships we have with one another make up the building blocks of society. But even at the best of times, they can be complicated and difficult to understand. Learners with special educational needs often find it harder to understand what it takes to develop positive, respectful relationships, making them more vulnerable than most. As such, taking the time to develop a tailored RSE programme can be crucial to their wellbeing.

Here, we’ve brought together a selection of top resources offering both guidance and lesson ideas to help you to do just that, as well as support students as they consider the concepts of choice and consent.

Guidance materials

Find out how to teach relationships and sex education to students with learning difficulties in these informative resources.

Teachers TV: Special Schools - SRE
Teachers TV

Teachers TV: Special Schools - SRE

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Shepherd School, Nottingham, has been recognised as a site of best practice in delivering Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) to young people with learning difficulties. "The work on sex education and relationships is a particular strength", Ofsted reported. This programme explore...

Lesson resources

Kick-start learning about healthy relationships and body awareness with one of these comprehensive lessons.

Puberty: Reproduction and periods activity
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Puberty: Reproduction and periods activity

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Teaching young people about puberty helps to equip them for a period of significant change. Hormones cause young people s bodies to change shape and develop both internally and externally - and the adolescent brain undergoes major developmental changes which influences feelings and behaviour....
Safe Relationships
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Safe Relationships

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A one hour lesson suitable for KS3 ( Year 7 or a SEND group), all making safe friendships and how we know when it's safe or unsafe to form new relationships with other people. There is a large focus on the dangers of meeting people online and potential groomers / online predators. It is well-diffe...