Dating & Mating

At a Glance

Topics Covered

This presentation investigates the challenges and pressures that young people face, as well as exploreing the knowledge, skills and values that further equip them to build strong and healthy relationships. The presentation covers issues such as: heathy relationships, personality and character, Child Sexual Exploitation, the impact of pornography, consent, sexting, positive values in a relationships, pregnancy and choices, STIs, and contraception.

Storyline Context

In each programme we create a storyline to help us share our information effectively throughout the Key Stages. This creates an opportunity for the pupils to consider the information objectively. There are a number of characters in our story, but Oscar and Martha are the hero characters, featuring throughout all the programmes, growing up with the pupils through their school years.

Dating & Mating | Setting the scene

Dating and Mating follows Oscar and Martha as they enter into Year 13! As both our characters grow older, they begin to become more independent of one another, leading to lots of ups and downs along the way. Oscar makes some choices which lead to Martha feeling isolated, yet Martha too decides to confide and get cosy to one of Oscar’s best friends. As Oscar and Martha navigate their relationship further, other characters’ stories are explored, from Leon and the football team, to Elliot and Molly, all of which lead to a discussion of the different issues faced and how they could navigate them well.

Topics covered in this presentation:

• Impact of media and peer pressure
• Identity & self-awareness
• Positive friendships & choices
• Sexting
• Pornography
• Healthy relationships and conflict resolution
• Child Sexual Exploitation
• Consent
• Pregnancy, STIs, contraception
• Pregnancy pathways
• Values & expectations