Sixth-formers are teaching sex education to younger pupils as part of an innovative teaching programme.
Straight talking - Rickstones School sixth form students Jack Mawson, Sofia Ferreier and Ross Bently prepare their sex education lessons. Picture: SEANA HUGHES 40677-c
Alec Hunter School, Braintree, and Rickstones School, Witham, are taking part in the Added Power and Understanding in Sex Education (A Pause) programme this term, where volunteers from Rickstones Sixth Form College teach classes to 12 and 13-year-olds in year nine at the two schools.
The volunteer sixth formers undertook two days of specialist training to enable them to teach the programme.
About 100 schools have signed up to the programme in the UK with 20 of these in Essex.
The programme locally is sponsored and organised by the Witham, Braintree and Halstead Care Trust and run by the Department of Child Health at Exeter University
Published Tuesday, January 25, 2005
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