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Year 8 · RSHE and PSHE · Relationships and safety · Lesson 1

Healthy relationships and consent

Features of healthy and unhealthy friendships and relationships, controlling behaviour, consent and boundaries, and where to get help.

Whiteboard video lesson: Healthy relationships and consent

15-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

  • Recognise healthy relationships
  • Spot unhealthy behaviour
  • Explain consent
  • Know where to get help

The method

  1. Respect, trust, equality.
  2. Spot control and pressure.
  3. Consent is free and can change.
  4. Get help.

Key words: respect, controlling behaviour, consent, boundary, assertive.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

Healthy or unhealthy? Someone keeps pressuring you after you said no.

  1. Step 1: Healthy: respect, trust, equality, kindness
  2. Step 2: So: unhealthy (pressure)

Answer: unhealthy (pressure)

Question 2

Healthy or unhealthy? Friends who disagree but talk it through calmly.

  1. Step 1: Healthy: respect, trust, equality, kindness
  2. Step 2: So: healthy

Answer: healthy

Question 3

Healthy or unhealthy? A friend shares your secret to embarrass you.

  1. Step 1: Healthy: respect, trust, equality, kindness
  2. Step 2: So: unhealthy (breaking trust)

Answer: unhealthy (breaking trust)