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RSHEConsent, relationships and sex education20 min★ difficulty

Consent: what it is and how to check

Consent means agreeing, freely and clearly, to something. It matters for everything from a hug to sharing a photo.

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Understand consent and personal boundaries

Key learning points

  • • Freely, clearly, and can be changed
  • • Checking in
  • • Pressure and images
  • • The law and help

This lesson at a glance

  • 20 minutes
  • 19 parts to scroll through
  • 4 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

consentpersonalboundariesfreelyclearly

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Introduction

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Consent: what it is and how to check illustrationVisual introduction

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Consent: what it is and how to check

Consent means agreeing, freely and clearly, to something. It matters for everything from a hug to sharing a photo.

In a nutshell

Understand consent and personal boundaries

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What you already know

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Before we start

What you already know

You know that everyone has personal boundaries.

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Key words

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Key words

Words you'll need today

consent
Freely agreeing to something, with the ability to change your mind.
boundary
A limit about what you're comfortable with.
pressure
Trying to make someone agree by guilt, nagging, threats or rewards.
age of consent
In the UK, the legal age for sexual activity is 16, for everyone.
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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1: What real consent looks like

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Freely, clearly, and can be changed

Consent has to be given freely, with no pressure. It has to be clear: silence or 'I guess' isn't a yes. And it can be taken back at any time. Agreeing once doesn't mean agreeing again.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Checking in

Asking 'Is this OK?' and watching body language is normal and respectful. If someone goes quiet, pulls away or looks unsure, stop.

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Quick check

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Quick check

Which is real consent?

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Quick check

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Quick check

Someone looks unsure. You should:

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Reset break

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Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now
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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2: Pressure, the law and getting help

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Pressure and images

Nagging, guilt ('if you loved me…') and threats are pressure, not consent. Asking for, sending or sharing a nude or semi-nude image of anyone under 18 is illegal, even if it's of yourself. If it happens, the NSPCC and IWF 'Report Remove' tool can help get it taken down.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

The law and help

The age of consent in the UK is 16. The law is there to protect young people, not to punish them. If anything has happened that didn't feel OK, it's never your fault. Talk to a trusted adult or Childline (0800 1111).

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Quick check

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Quick check

Is 'if you cared you would' pressure?

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Quick check

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Quick check

What is the UK age of consent?

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Common mix-ups

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Common mix-ups

Things people often get wrong

  • Saying yes once doesn't mean yes forever.
  • Not saying no isn't the same as saying yes.
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Challenge round

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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

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Challenge round

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Game · Fill the gaps

Finish the sentences

Choose the word that belongs in each gap.

____ has to be given freely, with no pressure.

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Mastery quiz

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Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Consent: what it is and how to check

3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. Can consent be withdrawn?

  2. 2. Sharing a nude image of someone under 18 is:

  3. 3. Something happened that didn't feel OK. Whose fault is it?

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Lesson round-up

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Lesson round-up

Ready when you are

Quiz score

Not sat

Games

Not played

Points this lesson

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Best run

0 in a row

Luna: 0 out of 4 on the practice checks. Only if you feel up to it — one more?

Ask Luna

Do the work

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.

Case study

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

  1. What choices did Ellie have at the moment the screenshot was posted?
  2. Who could she tell, and what would each of them be able to do?
  3. Write what you would do in this situation and why, in 6–8 sentences.

  • Thinking it through

    Writing

    Write what you would do in this situation, who you would ask, and why.

    6–8 sentences

Saved as you type.

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