How to teach tricky topics

Learn how to create a safe learning environment and teach those trickier PSHE topics with confidence.

Explore our mental health curriculum
Foundations for Wellbeing curriculum
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Guidance

Guidance and top tips on setting ground rules and distancing learning in PSHE education.
Guidance and resources to help you address misogyny, toxic influences and other related issues through PSHE/RSHE.
Free guidance. Consider how you might take a whole school approach, embed responses within PSHE education and reach out to your wider school community.
Support children and young people to understand, and avoid, risks associated with gambling.
PSHE Association guidance on teaching about mental health and emotional wellbeing.
Guidance from the national body for PSHE education on teaching about pornography and its potential harms to young people.

On-demand training

Want more support on how to teach these tricky topics? Our School Plus members can access these on-demand training courses:

KS 3-4

Pornography: What and how to teach

45 mins School Plus members

Learn how to safely and confidently teach about pornography in PSHE, and gain a solid understanding of current research and best practice.

KS 1-2

Teaching consent and tackling problematic behaviours – primary

30 mins School Plus members

Understand the vital role that PSHE education can play in tackling problematic sexual behaviour.

KS 3-4

Addressing sexual harassment – secondary

30 mins School Plus members

Learn how to address sexual harassment through the PSHE education curriculum safely and effectively, as part of statutory RSHE.