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Puberty lesson pack for year 7-8

Support students to explore emotional changes that occur during puberty and learn about menstrual wellbeing.

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While students will have received education on puberty at primary school, these lessons build on prior learning, helping them to develop a deeper understanding of how to manage physical and emotional changes and ensuring they are familiar with a variety of period products.

This will ensure you meet the Department for Education (DfE)’s 2025 statutory Relationships Sex and Health education (RSHE) guidance, which requires schools to cover “the main changes which take place in males and females, and the implications for emotional and physical health” and “the facts about puberty”.

  • Learning objectives

    PSHE Association Programme of Study

    DfE statutory guidance

    Year 7-8

    Lesson 1: Puberty and emotional changes

    To learn how emotions are affected by puberty, and how to manage the impact this may have on someone’s relationships.

     

    Lesson 2: Menstrual wellbeing

    To learn about menstrual wellbeing.

    Puberty and adolescence

    • about the maturing female and male adolescent body and strategies to manage the emotional and physical changes (e.g., periods, wet dreams, body hair, voice, body shape and skin changes) that are a typical part of growing up

    • about the adolescent brain; the relationship between brain development and hormonal changes as people mature

    • how to manage menstrual wellbeing, choose and access appropriate menstrual products; who to talk to if concerned or for advice about menstrual health

    Developing bodies

    • (1) The main changes which take place in males and females, and the implications for emotional and physical health.

    • (2) The facts about puberty, the changing adolescent body, including brain development.

    • (3) About menstrual and gynaecological health, including: what is an average period; period problems such as premenstrual syndrome; heavy menstrual bleeding; endometriosis; and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). When to seek help from healthcare professionals.
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Designed for PSHE teachers in key stages 2 and 3, this on-demand webinar will help you to build the confidence to teach about puberty safely and effectively in PSHE education.

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