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Addressing Sexual Violence in Schools

Michael Conroy and Tamasine Preece

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Sexual Violence in Schools: The Current Picture (Tamse)

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A small church primary school recently called the charity [Diversify] in to talk to pupils after four nine-year-old boys locked a girl in a cupboard, threatened to “fuck her in the throat” and then made her watch porn video clips.

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The Guardian, 29th April 2023

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  • Everyone’s Invited Project – 50, 046 submissions; 2962 schools named (2021); 600 rape investigations (FOI request 2015)

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  • Online misogynistic influencers within context of wider Manosphere

(e.g. Andrew Tate)

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  • Proliferation of online pornography

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  • DfE Compulsory Relationships, and Relationships and Sex Education (2020)

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  • Review of RSE resources and providers

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Strategies – creating a curriculum

Going right back to basics – explaining the origins of historical gender roles and the emergence of related gender stereotypes

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Through a spiral curriculum, creating opportunities to revisit this several times a year:

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Year 7 – fashion, clothes, toys

Year 8 – drugs (manufacturing/harvesting to distribution)

Year 9/10 – sexual assault and rape; pornography

Year 11 – One Punch Can Kill; addiction (mental health, eating disorders, gambling)

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