As part of the New Zealand Health and Physical Education curriculum, we cover age-appropriate sexuality education through a unit of work called Navigating the Journey. Through Term Two, Year 7 to Year 10 students will be participating in this programme. Each week, an overview of the forthcoming lessons will be available here.

WEEKS 2 AND 3: NAVIGATING THE JOURNEY

YEAR 7: 

Who Am I? Ko Wai Au?: Students will explore how their rights and responsibilities increase as they get older. Identify their current responsibilities and prepare for those they will have in the future. Identify rights and responsibilities in given situations.

Week 3: Understanding gender and stereotypes. Be able to identify gender stereotypes and their impacts in peoples' sense of identity. Discuss strategies to challenge gender stereotypes that they can use. Be able to define sex, gender and stereotypes.

YEAR 8: 

Who Am I? Ko Wai Au?: Understanding gender and stereotypes. Be able to identify gender stereotypes and their impacts in peoples' sense of identity. Discuss strategies to challenge gender stereotypes that they can use.

Week 3: Identify how social messages about gender can affect peoples' experiences of becoming an adult. Examine cultural attitudes towards gender diversity. Contribute to the development of policies that support diversity of gender and sexual identities and inclusion of all.

https://insideout.ry.org.nz/ep6/

YEAR 9: 

Understand that we live in a diverse society. Examine cultural attitudes towards gender and sexual diversity. Be able to use appropriate terms when referring to gender and sexual diversity.

Gender Identity: The Real Sex Talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMlo0MK0FiU&list=PLZCsPWBnv_GBQL9kdrce6v4IEQVi5XcZg&index=8

Week 3: Gender stereotypes and the media: Identify gender stereotypes in the media and how they can influence beliefs and attitudes about gender, body image and relationships. Discuss the impact of media messages about gender on people's sense of identity. Identify and discuss strategies to challenge gender stereotypes.

YEAR 10: 

Understand that we live in a diverse society. Examine cultural attitudes towards gender and sexual diversity. Be able to use appropriate terms when referring to gender and sexual diversity. Be able to develop strategies to support themselves and people who identify as gender and/or sexually diverse.

Sexuality: The Real Sex Talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQd3aUwWQeM&list=PLZCsPWBnv_GBQL9kdrce6v4IEQVi5XcZg&index=7

What it's like to be intersex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUDKEI4QKI

Week 3: Gender and the media: Gender stereotypes and the media: Identify gender stereotypes in the media and how they can influence beliefs and attitudes about gender, body image and relationships.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Aweo-74kY&t=28s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srnaXW9ZgZc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTvGSstKd5Y&t=15s

Analyse and deconstruct media images. Identify and discuss strategies to challenge gender stereotypes.