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. We...
book us for your school or college
We offer a range of staff trainings and students workshop to equip schools and colleges with the knowledge and skills to tackle sexual harassment. Our team has spent years researching public sexual harassment, talking to young people about their experiences and understanding the complex barriers that exist for schools and colleges aiming to make change. We talk to young people using real experiences they can relate to and we give staff an insight into the issues their learners are likely facing.
Sessions for Young People
We offer workshops on sexual harassment to students from year 9 upwards. The timings can flex from 50-90 minutes long to suit your timetable and can each accommodate up to 30 students, delivered by 2 facilitators. We can work with an entire year group running one workshop after another one, or running up to three simultaneous workshops.The content slightly varies for different year groups, but in every workshop we aim to give students the space to understand and define sexual harassment, to consider its impacts and to understand their role in challenging harmful language and behaviour.
Sessions for staff
Our staff sessions are designed to increase confidence from teaching staff in understanding, responding to and preventing public sexual harassment. We also provide free resources, including ready-made lesson plans, and training on how to use them.
We can deliver sessions for any number of teaching staff and can keep the content general for a whole staff session or tailored, e.g. to focus on safeguarding procedures for a pastoral team training. Our minimum session length is 1 hour, please refer to our flyer for the full list of content that we offer.
How to Book
To book a session, please contact us at programmes@ourstreetsnow.org and include:
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The types of session you are looking for (staff or student)
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If booking student sessions, the number of students, year group and whether you prefer to run workshops consecutively or simultaneously
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Preference of dates, days or times for the sessions
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Any budget or timetabling constraints
DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES
We offer the following free resources for staff, students and parents:
CYMRU/ WALES
Ein Strydoedd Nawr yng Nghymru
Our Streets Now in Wales
Yn ogystal â gweithio mewn ysgolion ar draws Cymru, rydym wedi bod yn cynnal rhaglenni peilot mewn partneriaeth â Llywodraeth Cymru
As well as working in schools across Wales, we have been running pilot programmes in partnership with the Welsh Government
Cliciwch i lawrlwytho ein hadnoddau yn Gymraeg
Click to download our resources in Welsh
our research
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
