Respect, boundaries and consent
Consent means a free, informed and active agreement. It can be withdrawn at any time and is never created by pressure or silence.
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Understand consent and personal boundaries
Key learning points
- • What valid consent needs
- • Respond safely
This lesson at a glance
- 25 minutes
- 9 parts to scroll through
- 3 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
Words to know
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Respect, boundaries and consent
An English teaching video on this topic from Oasis Mental Health Applications-Thrive Compass. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.
In a nutshell
Understand consent and personal boundaries
Explore the idea
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Learn
What valid consent needs
A person needs capacity, freedom from pressure and enough information to choose. Checking in matters because agreement to one thing is not agreement to everything.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Respond safely
Respect a no immediately. If a situation feels unsafe, move away, contact a trusted adult and use emergency help when there is immediate danger.
Quick check
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Quick check
Can consent be withdrawn?
Quick check
Part 5 of 9
Quick check
Does silence mean yes?
Quick check
Part 6 of 9
Quick check
What should happen after a no?
Challenge round
Part 7 of 9
Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Respect, boundaries and consent
3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. Can consent be withdrawn?
2. Does silence mean yes?
3. What should happen after a no?
Lesson round-up
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Your written work for this lesson
This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.
The group chat
Ellie is added to a class group chat with twenty-six people in it. At first it is jokes and homework questions. Then someone screenshots a private message from a girl in another class and posts it. Several people laugh. Two people leave the chat. Ellie says nothing, and feels bad about it that evening.
The next day the girl is off school. A teacher asks the class about the chat. Nobody wants to be the one who tells.
Staying silent can feel like the safest choice in the moment. It also leaves the person who was hurt on their own.
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Reading questions
- What choices did Ellie have at the moment the screenshot was posted?
- Who could she tell, and what would each of them be able to do?
- Write what you would do in this situation and why, in 6–8 sentences.
Thinking it through
WritingWrite what you would do in this situation, who you would ask, and why.
6–8 sentences
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