Specialist Classes & Workshops for Health,
Relationships and Life Skills
Puberty is one of the first major transitions children experience, and for many it can feel confusing or overwhelming. This session provides a clear, reassuring, age-appropriate introduction to the physical, emotional, and social changes that come with puberty, combining medically accurate information with practical self-care strategies in a warm, respectful environment where questions are welcomed.
Children today enter puberty earlier and navigate it alongside social media and peer comparison. Early, accurate information reduces anxiety, supports healthier self-esteem, and opens stronger communication with trusted adults.
This session introduces students to human reproduction in a clear and age-appropriate way, from fertilisation through pregnancy and birth, normalising curiosity and building confidence in using accurate biological language. The goal is to demystify the process and lay a strong foundation for future learning.
Children at this age are naturally curious about where babies come from. Without clear guidance, questions are often answered through myths, peers, or online content. Demystifying the process lays a strong foundation for future learning about health and relationships.
Students learn to identify their personal strengths, critically assess the pressures that shape body image, and build a resilient sense of self, rooted in internal validation rather than external comparison. The session equips students with awareness, language, and practical tools to strengthen self-esteem at a critical stage of identity development.
Early adolescence intensifies self-consciousness and social comparison. Building protective factors now supports academic confidence, friendship quality, and long-term emotional wellbeing, well before higher-risk years.
At a formative stage of adolescence, students are navigating more complex friendships, early romantic interests, peer pressure, and digital interactions. This workshop provides a clear framework for recognising healthy dynamics, understanding personal boundaries, and applying consent in everyday life, moving beyond abstract ideas to concrete, confident decision-making.
Without guidance, the messages students absorb about relationships, from peers, social media, family, and entertainment, can shape expectations in unsafe ways. Early education in boundaries and consent strengthens self-worth and reduces vulnerability to manipulation.
An interactive game-based module that builds critical media literacy alongside age-appropriate exploration of health, growth, and development. Students gain tools to thoughtfully evaluate the social media and sexualised content they may encounter online, and lead the learning through live anonymous questions.
Young people are navigating a complex digital landscape. Giving them tools to critically assess what they see online, particularly sexualised content, is an essential part of modern health education.
Students are introduced to the endocrine system, the network of glands that produce and regulate hormones essential to growth and development. The course also explores endocrine disruptors: chemicals found in everyday products that can interfere with hormonal health, and how to make informed choices to reduce unnecessary exposure.
Understanding how hormones work, and how they can be disrupted, gives students the knowledge to make informed choices that support healthy development.
Sleep is one of the most powerful and most underestimated factors in adolescent health. This session focuses on how screens and digital habits disrupt sleep, and what that disruption actually does to the developing brain and body.
Adolescents are biologically wired to need more sleep yet consistently get less. Screen use is the single biggest factor. In 45 minutes, this session gives students a clear understanding of what is happening in their bodies and the practical tools to do something about it.
This session equips students with clear, age-appropriate knowledge to make informed decisions about contraception and reproductive health. Rather than starting with methods, it begins by exploring the real-life impact of unplanned pregnancy, emotionally, socially, and practically, so students understand why planning matters before learning how to prevent it.
Young people are exposed to sexual information long before they are ready to navigate its consequences. Framing contraception as a tool for protecting one's future moves students from passive exposure to proactive, responsible decision-making.
This course equips students with the ability to critically assess the sexual images they view in mainstream media and pornography, enabling them to make values-based decisions about how they choose to interact with this content.
For many young people, pornography has become an unspoken source of information about sex and relationships, despite being highly unrealistic and often harmful. Critical media literacy is now essential to modern health education.
This course gives students clear, evidence-based knowledge about sexually transmitted infections: what they are, how they spread, how they are prevented, and how to access testing and support. The aim is not to alarm, but to equip students to take genuine ownership of their sexual health as they move into young adulthood.
STIs are common, often symptom-free, and frequently misunderstood. Framing sexual health as an act of self-respect, not a source of shame, equips students to make informed decisions and seek care when they need it.
As older adolescents move toward the increased autonomy of adulthood, a sophisticated understanding of consent becomes a critical life skill. This course transcends foundational definitions to explore the practical challenges, legal parameters, and interpersonal nuances of relationships grounded in genuine mutual respect.
Consent is the cornerstone of every healthy relationship, universal across friendships, family, and romantic partnerships. Deepening this understanding throughout secondary school builds the confidence and safety students need in their own lives.
This session applies everything students have built across the Shift curriculum to what they will actually face when they leave home. Part one focuses on navigating health systems independently. Part two addresses sexual violence, trauma and bystander responsibility.
The transition to university brings new freedom alongside a sudden loss of the support networks students have always had around them. This session gives them the practical tools, situational awareness and confidence to access help when they need it, and to look out for the people around them.