Navigating the Journey: Relationships and sexuality education
Te takahi i te ara: Te mātauranga mō ngā hononga tāngata me te hōkakatanga

Navigating the Journey is a comprehensive programme for educators delivering relationships and sexuality education in school-based settings. It is designed to meet rangatahi at their stage of development – and build on their previous year’s learning. Navigating the Journey is full of lesson plans and activities for Years 1-10 and aligns with the Ministry of Education’s current Relationships and Sexuality Education guidance.

Find out more about Navigating the Journey, including frequently asked questions.

Navigating the Journey has five themes that remain the same throughout all year groups – the content changes to be age and stage appropriate. 

Some of the topics that are explored in Years 7-8 are:

1. Establishing a positive learning environment: Te whakarite i tētahi ao ako huapai

• Establishing safe ways to ask questions and inquire together

2. Who am I? Ko wai au?

• Understanding our personal learning journeys
• Balancing rights and responsibilities
• Understanding gender and stereotypes

3. Relationships: Ngā whanaungatanga

What is important in a relationship

• Setting our boundaries
• Sexual orientation
• Assertiveness and making decisions

4. Growing and changing: Te tipu me te huri o te tangata

Pubertal change

• Managing pubertal change
• Getting to know our reproductive systems
• Conception
• Safer sex

5. Staying safe: Te noho haumaru

• Listening to our feelings
• Online safety: cyberbullying
• Online safety: pornography and sexting
• Who is on our maunga

Navigating the Journey comes with a guide detailing how to use the resource.  We have also developed a guide for parents, caregivers, and whānau which explains how schools utilise Navigating the Journey and what they expect their tamariki to be learning about.

Format: two downloadable PDFs – PDF links will be supplied via email.

Don’t forget to sign up to a free Navigating the Journey Q&A session for the opportunity to ask our experienced Community Health Promoters any questions about the resource.