“To navigate an increasingly complex and ever-changing world, young people need to be supported to have healthy, fulfilled lives – and relationships and sex education is a critical part of that equation. By curating real stories from young people across a range of lived experiences, Life Lessons aims to make relationships and sex education relatable, alongside giving teachers the tools and resources to teach the subject effectively.”
GINA CICERONE AND SAM BUTTERS, CO-CEO’S FAIR EDUCATION ALLIANCE
About Life Lessons and Nicole Rodden:
Nicole Rodden’s experience as a Teach First teacher helped shape her understanding of the many facets of education and how children from under-served backgrounds experienced many of these facets. She identified effective relationship and sex education (RSE) to be a critical enabler for young people to have healthy, fulfilled lives. Ofsted’s 2013 review found that a third of schools required improvement when it came to RSE.
Nicole, along with her co-founder Jamie, launched Life Lessons as an online platform featuring a full curriculum of original video content presented by relatable young people from an array of lived experiences. The videos are complemented by lesson plans and assessment tools to empower teachers to teach the subject in an effective way. Through Life Lessons, Nicole aims to support teachers to deliver the length and breadth of government-recommended RSE (Relationships and Sex education) curriculum both in and out of the classroom.