Brook’s free Big RSE Lessons

Brook’s RSE Live Lessons are free, hour-long interactive live-stream broadcasts about different RSE topics. The lessons take place live on the LearnLive platform but are also available to watch on demand – watch them with your class, or watch to improve your own knowledge and confidence in delivering RSE.

Previous Live lessons

The Big Period Lesson 3

Over 66,000 teachers and pupils joined us for the Big Period Lesson 3. Aimed at Year 6 and 7, this lesson supports students to:

Understand puberty and the changes that happen to their bodies.
Learn about different period products and how to manage menstrual cycles.
Recognise how activity and rest can both support period wellbeing.

Watch The Big Period Lesson 3

Are You Feeling It? The Big RSE Lesson

In celebration of Sexual Health Week 2024, our Big RSE Lesson empowered young people to take care of their mental health and support healthy decision-making.

Understand the role of mental health in maintaining healthy relationships and good sexual health.
Understand how to look after mental and sexual health, including accessing services.
Feel empowered to make healthy choices when it comes to sex and relationships.

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The Big Period Lesson 2

This 60-minute session for Year 6 and 7s is delivered in partnership with Lil-Lets. Topics include:

Understand key facts about periods, period pains and heavy menstrual bleeding.
Learn about different period products and how to manage menstrual cycles.
Understand how periods and hormones can affect mental health.

Watch The Big Period Lesson 2

Playing It Safe: The Big RSE Lesson

In celebration of Brook’s 2023 Sexual Health Week: Playing it Safe, our Big RSE Lesson empowered young people to understand and challenge gender stereotypes.

This live lesson on Understanding and Challenging Gender Stereotypes is aimed at students in Year 9 and above. Topics covered include:

Gender stereotypes
Real-world impacts of misogyny
Types of online gender-based abuse

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The Big Period Lesson

To celebrate the fourth year of our partnership with Lil-Lets, we delivered the Big Period Lesson Live. More than 57,600 people tuned in to the live broadcast, making it our biggest Live Lesson yet!

This live lesson aimed at Years 6 and 7 helps make sure young people learn about puberty in a timely and age-appropriate way.

Puberty and body changes
Name of reproductive organs
Menstrual cycle and periods

Watch The Big Period Lesson

Breaking Barriers: Big RSE Lesson

To celebrate the 2022 Sexual Health Week theme of Breaking Barriers, our big RSE lesson, aimed at Year 9 and above, focuses on how to ask for help and where to go for support related to all parts of life including sexual health and wellbeing.

Recognise it can be difficult to talk about some topics
Strategies for talking about challenging topics
Support services and how to access them

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LGBT+ History: Big RSE Lesson

Around 15,000 young people tuned in for Brook’s online RSE lesson celebrating LGBT+ history month 2022.

The lesson, aimed at Year 9 and above, explores the richness of LGBT+ history with the aim of challenging stereotypes, promoting understanding and celebrating diversity.

Key moments in LGBT+ history
Influential LGBT+ history
Importance of allyship
Myth-busting quiz

Watch the LGBT+ History RSE Lesson