Supporting Your Teaching Staff to Deliver Puberty Education

One of our Directors and founders, Chris Cowan, highlights how using classroom visitors like Loudmouth can help to ease some stress and anxiety on teachers delivering puberty education.

I recently went along to view one of our sessions in a primary school. The session went well with the usual great engagement from pupils and afterwards I was chatting to the headteacher at the school. She complimented the content but said something that I hadn’t really considered much before. She said that our work can really help the mental wellbeing of her own staff. She elaborated that teaching Relationships and Health Education can be a worry for some of her teachers. They are more nervous about getting it right and often don’t feel fully equipped to handle topics like puberty. Her feeling was that with so many different pulls on teachers time and high workloads, some support from a proven and safe company can really help.

Our programmes have always been designed to be used alongside school’s own RHE or RSHE curriculum and have often been used as a way to either introduce or round up a topic. Our staff have been trained to a high level to deliver our sessions and so know the content, the guidance and the tone to use.

The conversation with the headteacher reminded me of how having some support from outside classroom visitors can help to take off some of the burden and provide a way in to continue that work after the visit. We provide access to over 100 lesson plans to any school that books Loudmouth and so staff can use the story, issues or approaches that were introduced in our visit into their follow up work.

This summer we will visit many schools with our puberty education programme, My Mate Fancies You. We know that both pupils and teaching staff can find this a tricky and sometimes embarrassing to talk about body changes. Having a play that covers the topic with sensitivity and humour is a great way to alleviate that embarrassment and support teachers in their delivery. Our Actor / Facilitators run these lessons and workshops many, many times and so are very comfortable in introducing the topics and using accurate vocabulary and the up to date guidance.

If you would like us to come in to school to help take some of the pressure off your staff in starting your work on puberty then contact us on 0121 446 4880.