Contraception, sexual health and confidential help
This is information to keep for later, and to help you spot myths. Knowing how to stay healthy is part of respecting yourself and others.
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Understand human reproduction, contraception and sexual health, and where to get confidential advice
Key learning points
- • Main types of contraception
- • Staying safe from STIs
- • Confidential services
- • Spotting myths
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
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Introduction
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Visual introductionPicture this
Contraception, sexual health and confidential help
This is information to keep for later, and to help you spot myths. Knowing how to stay healthy is part of respecting yourself and others.
In a nutshell
Understand human reproduction, contraception and sexual health, and where to get confidential advice
What you already know
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Before we start
What you already know
You know how a pregnancy can start.
Key words
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Key words
Words you'll need today
- contraception
- Ways to prevent pregnancy, such as condoms or the pill.
- condom
- A thin barrier worn on the penis. The only method that also protects against most STIs.
- STI
- Sexually transmitted infection, passed on through sexual contact. Most are treatable.
- confidential
- Kept private. Sexual health services for under-16s are usually confidential.
Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 1 of 2
Part 1: Preventing pregnancy and infection
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Main types of contraception
Barrier methods, like condoms, stop sperm reaching an egg. Hormonal methods, like the pill, implant or injection, stop eggs being released. Emergency contraception can be used soon after unprotected sex, and pharmacies and clinics provide it.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Staying safe from STIs
STIs such as chlamydia often have no symptoms, so testing matters. Condoms greatly reduce the risk. Most STIs are easily treated, and tests are free on the NHS.
Quick check
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Quick check
Which method also protects against most STIs?
Quick check
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Quick check
How does the pill work?
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.
Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 2 of 2
Part 2: Where to get help
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Confidential services
In the UK, GPs, school nurses and sexual health clinics can give confidential advice to under-16s. They only share information if someone is at risk of serious harm. Brook (brook.org.uk) has reliable information for young people.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Spotting myths
'You can't get pregnant standing up' and 'the pill protects against STIs' are both myths. When you're unsure, check the NHS website or Brook, not a group chat.
Quick check
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Quick check
Do STIs always cause symptoms?
Quick check
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Quick check
Can under-16s get confidential sexual health advice?
Common mix-ups
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Common mix-ups
Things people often get wrong
- The pill prevents pregnancy but doesn't protect against STIs. Condoms do both.
- Many STIs have no symptoms, so feeling fine doesn't prove you haven't got one.
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
Challenge round
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Game · Fill the gaps
Finish the sentences
Choose the word that belongs in each gap.
Emergency ____ can be used soon after unprotected sex, and pharmacies and clinics provide it.
In the UK, GPs, school nurses and ____ health clinics can give confidential advice to under-16s.
Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Contraception, sexual health and confidential help
3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. 'The pill protects against STIs' is:
2. Where can you get reliable information?
3. Are most STIs treatable?
Lesson round-up
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Lesson round-up
Ready when you are
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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
Saved as you type.
Part 1 of 19 · Introduction