OUR SCHOOLs NOW
PSH and SECONDArY SCHOOLS
Educating every child in the UK about public sexual harassment
VISION
Our vision is for every young person to be taught about public sexual harassment (PSH), its root causes and its impacts in school. We hope to raise a generation who are equipped to challenge harassment, oppression, and prejudice; to empathise with those who experience it; and who never become perpetrators of this everyday violence.
MISSION
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To provide free resources to pupils and lesson plans to teachers. All our resources are guided by the teachers, parents and secondary school pupils who support us.
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To support solutions and campaigns created by current secondary school pupils. We provide free workshops and events for pupils who want to make a difference.
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To campaign for PSH to be included in the statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance. Education policy must focus on challenging the root causes of this violence rather than the socially-learned behaviours of individuals.
Teacher Training
Our Schools Now is now live in schools and youth centres across the UK! We now offer a range of interactive training sessions for educators on understanding public sexual harassment.
If you’re looking to better teach about harassment, respond to disclosures, safeguard students, answer difficult questions and understand how to engage boys in the context of PSH, then get in touch today.
DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES
FOR STUDENTS
FOR TEACHERS
If you are a teacher, pupil, alumni, parent or youth leader, then fill in your details below to receive all our resources by email:
We have created these free of charge resources to help you make a positive change in your schools and communities. If you teach them, we'd love your feedback. Email us or fill in the above feedback form - email OSNschools@outlook.com
REPORT And findings
We are committed to our work being guided by the voices of secondary school pupils, so we conducted a piece of research where we asked 153 pupils about what they wanted to be different.
KEY FINDINGS
of pupils
have never been
taught about PSH
in school
of pupils
don't feel confident reporting PSH to a member of the school staff
of pupils
who did report PSH described receiving a negative response from staff
Supporting Organisations
Here are the incredible organisations we love that are tackling public sexual harassment (PSH). If you are a youth or SRE organisation wanting to support the movement to end PSH, get in touch at OSNschools@outlook.com. We would love to hear from you or work with you.
The Blagrave Trust supports our work by funding us to promote learning and awareness-raising in schools about public sexual harassment through training young activists, parents and teachers, creating materials, and developing partnerships with others offering RSE education.
Sisterhood is a grassroots, social enterprise where all self-identifying girls and gender expanding youth can design their place in the world. We are working in collaboration with Sisterhood to offer workshops and events for young people to take action on public sexual harassment.
Sexpression:UK is an amazing near-peer led organisation offering free and comprehensive education on relationships, sex and sexuality. Working in collaboration with Our Streets Now, they now offer sessions to schools on public sexual harassment (PSH). You can contact your local Sexpression branch here and find out if they can help you tackle PSH at your school.
Safeguarding Network provide specialist advice and resources to support Designated Safeguarding Leads.
We are working together to support schools to manage the safeguarding issues related to Public Street Harassment and have produced a free-to-use joint resource.