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ASDAN SRE

Date: 20 Nov 2009

ASDAN Sex and Relationship Education

(SRE) Award Summary

The ASDAN Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) Award accredits 30 hours of activity aimed at increasing young people's awareness of, and confidence to deal with, relationships and sexual health.

Offering a flexible, multi-level programme aimed primarily at 13-19 year olds, this Award provides a standalone certificate of achievement as well as progression into nationally recognised Awards and Qualifications. Credits from the Award can count as up to half of the curriculum requirements of the ASDAN Certificate of Personal Effectiveness (CoPE), which has GCSE equivalence at Levels 1 and 2, and is worth an AS Level at Level 3.

Young people present a portfolio of evidence of their activities. This portfolio will contain:

After successful moderation, centres submit a list of candidates' names via the secure area of the website and certificates are issued by ASDAN.

The SRE Award is a 30 hour programme which is divided into 4 sections. The Challenge Sections are:

  1. Relationships (8 hours for ¼ credit, 15 hours for ½ credit)
  2. Sexual Behaviour (8 hours for ¼ credit)
  3. Contraception (8 hours for ¼ credit)
  4. Sexual Health (8 hours for ¼ credit)

Young people must complete at least 3 sections for a minimum total of 12 challenged to achieve one credit awards.

Following ASDAN's work on the Government's PSHE Advisory Group a joint publication on Sex and Relationships Education at Key Stage 3 and 4 was produced with the National Childrens Bureau Sex Education Forum. ASDAN has now collaborated with DfES to produce eight Sex and Relationships Case Studies many of which feature the use in schools of the ASDAN/NCB materials. The Case Studies can also be found also on the DfES website as examples of effective practice http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/pshe

For more information contact your ASDAN Accreditation officer in your school, college or youth centre, or follow click on the link http://www.asdan.org.uk/SRE

 

Relationships

Complete at least 4 for the following challenges (8 hours for ¼ credit, 15 hours for ½ credit).

Challenge 1:  Interview at least 3 people and produce an account of the different types of relationships that they have.

Challenge 2:  Make a list of the different people you have relationships with. With a partner, consider what you like and value about these relationships. Produce a ‘charter’ which describes the way you would like to behave with the people identified.

Challenge 3:  Explore 2 or more organisations that help young people deal with relationships issues. Produce a promotional leaflet for each of the different organisations.

Challenge 4:  Investigate and produce a balanced account of the attitudes to marriage and divorce in different religions.

Challenge 5:  Write and perform a short play/ dialogue which highlights how separation or divorce affects families and how members of the family adapt to changing circumstances.

Challenge 6:  In pairs design an advertising campaign that explains how peer pressure affects people and can lead to risk taking including alcohol, drug use and early sexual activity.

Challenge 7:  Take part in a group discussion about how bereavement affects both an individual and their relationships with family and friends.

Sexual Behaviour

Complete 4 of the following challenges (8 hours for ¼ credit).

Challenge 1:  As a group, find out how early sexual behaviour leading to teenage pregnancy affects both boys’ and girls’ lives and present you findings in a role play.

Challenge 2:  You are a dingle parent living alone. You weekly budget is £70. Plan how you will spend your income to provide everything you need for yourself and your 6 month old baby.

Challenge 3:  In a group discuss how alcohol and drugs affect sexual behaviour.

Challenge 4:  Investigate how popular culture and the media (music, film, magazines and the press) affect young peoples’ ways of forming relationships. Write a letter to the editor of a weekly magazine aimed at teenagers, outlining your views.

Challenge 5:  In a group use newspapers and magazines to collect examples of different messages you can observe about sex, sexuality, gender and relationships. Identify different messages for young men and women.

Challenge 6:  Look into causes and solutions of ‘date rape’ Discuss/ consider ways n which we can learn from and prevent this problem.

Contraception

Complete 4 of the following challenges (8 hours for ¼ credit).

Challenge 1:  Discuss with peers and friends how to develop negotiation skills on who should take responsibility for contraception in a relationship that becomes serious.

Challenge 2:  Carry out research into how different religions or cultures view the use of contraception.

Challenge 3:  Produce an ‘aunt agony’ column which discusses the effectiveness and appropriate use of condoms, contraceptives pills, emergency contraception and implants.

Challenge 4:  As a group explore the issues to ve considered by the Health Services when considering distributing free contraception. Discuss your findings.

Challenge 5:  Produce an attractive information leaflet for young people that explains the difference between contraception and protection and why both are important in young people’s lives.

Challenge 6:  Find out about the different places and people that can offer support and advice about contraception.

Sexual Health

Complete 4 of the following challenges (8 hours for ¼ credit).

Challenge 1:  Alone or in a group, identify the different types of signs and symptoms that occur when someone has a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Present information about the long-term effects of an STI.

Challenge 2:  Carry out an in depth study into one of the following:

Produce a newsletter or letter to a newspaper outlining you findings and include a summary of your own feelings on this issue.

Challenge 3:  Produce an information leaflet for young people to inform them about their local NHS Sexual Health Clinic and which services it provides.

Challenge 4:  Interview either the school nurse or a local sexual health worker. Find out about their job and report back on what you have learned.

Challenge 5: The subject of abortion is often in the news. Using the internet, or other sources, fins out more about the issues related to abortion which may affect young people. Design a poster to a web page that will help young people to understand the issues relevant to making safe, legal choices.