The resources below are intended to be a starting point for learning and applying consent education in primary school. Some resources will be fitting for your international school context, and some may be inappropriate for your context. Whatever the case, before using any resource, carefully consider the social, religious, cultural, gender, and other contexts for the community in which you reside. Consult with the SEL professionals at your school.
Activity Ideas
Videos
Books
Other Resources
Activity Ideas
- Anchor charts and journal prompts (Minero, 2019). What does it mean? What does it sound like? What does it look like? When do we need to ask for it?
- Create comics about what consent looks like and what it is not.
- Allow students to choose how they would like to be greeted in the morning (high five, hug, thumbs up, wave, smile, etc. Make sure they have the ability to change or choose no to a physical greeting.).
- Point out examples of appropriate consent in books and videos.
- Use a red, yellow, and green indicators to illustrate boundary crossing. Green means personal boundary is respected, red means the boundary has been crossed, and yellow means unsure.
Videos
- Consent for Kids from Blue Seat Studios - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3nhM9UlJjc
- Consent and Communication from AMAZE Org - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wOqcU79Rh8
- Consent for Kids from Gloucestershire OPCC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AArIv-tvxWE
- Boss of My Body from Rubysstudio.com - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAALZxa6NCw
Books
- Consent (for Kids!): Boundaries, Respect, and Being in Charge of YOU by Rachel Brian
- Let’s Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent and Respect by Jayneen Sanders
- Kit and Arlo Find a Way, by Ingrid Laguna
- My Body! What I say Goes! by Jayneen Sanders 2016
- Miles is the Boss of His Body by Samantha Counter 2014
- No Means No! by Jayneen Sanders, 2015
- Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept by Jayneen Sanders, 2011
- We Listen to Our Bodies by Lydia Bowers, 2021
- Your Body Belongs to You by Cornelia Spelman, 1997
- I Said No! A Kid-to-kid Guide to Keeping Private Parts Private, 2010
- We Ask Permission by Lydia Bowers, 2022
- I Can Say No by Jenny Simmons, 2021
- Listening to My Body by Gabi Garcia, 2016
- My Body Belongs to Me by Jill Starishevsky, 2014
- Yes! No! A First Conversation about Consent by Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Isabel Roxas, 2022
- Harrison P. Spader, Personal Space Invader by Christianne Jones, 2018
Other Resources
- safesecurekids.org/teaching-consent
- https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-consent-elementary-students
- https://www.twinkl.com.tw/blog/teaching-about-consent-and-respect-in-primary-schools
- https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/18/12/consent-every-age
- https://www.talkingthetalksexed.com.au/talking-the-talk-virtual-classroom
- https://www.talkwithyourkids.org/lets-talk-about/healthy-sex-talk-teaching-kids-consent-ages-1-21.html
- https://shvic.org.au/education-resources
- https://shvic.org.au/assets/resources/Scope-and-sequence-chart.pdf
- International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education https://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/ITGSE.pdf
- Talk Soon, Talk Often. Government of Western Australia Department of Health. https://www.healthywa.wa.gov.au/~/media/HWA/Documents/Healthy-living/Sexual-health/talk-soon-talk-often.pdf
- PSHE Association. Teaching about consent: https://pshe-association.org.uk/consent
- https://conversationsonconsent.com/education-consent/