Guess where I was yesterday, chicas?
Only in blimmin’ parliament! Yep, that big swanky place in Londinium where all the BIG decisions are made.
Why?
Well, I was meeting with Diana Johnson MP and her fab team to discuss PSHE and body image classes becoming compulsory in schools - I can’t believe that they’re NOT compulsory - she was as keen as me to make this happen, and I’m very excited to be working with them in the future!
If you don’t know already, as well as being an author-girl and an agony aunt, I’m a PSHE practitioner, which means I go into school and deliver different parts of the curriculum in fun Lisa-like ways. I LOVE my job - the book writing, the agony aunt-ing and the PSHE classes because I am so passionate that gorgeous girls like yourself, have access to ALL the information you need to be confident, kick-ass, to love what you see when you look in the mirror, to be able to communicate with your parentals and to become as feisty, fun, fearless and fabulous as you absolutely deserve to be. In fact I’ve never been MORE passionate about anything in my life.
But, to make sure I’m doing it right, gorgeous girls, I need your help!
What are the PSHE lessons in YOUR school like? Are they good? What would you like to learn about? How many do you have a week and for how long? Would you want classes about body image or are you bored of hearing about it?
I want to know what YOU think.
You can either leave a comment or email me at: pinkworldlc@hotmail.co.uk - everyone that gives me feedback before March 30th will be put in a draw for a VERY special bag o’ thank you goodies - can’t wait to hear your thoughts and opinions!
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March 3rd, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Molly
The PSHE lessons are rubbish at my school. We have an hour lesson once every two weeks and we don’t do anything normally. Once this man from Shelter came to talk about homeless people and another time this man from the fire station. If I think about it, we only had 2 proper PSHE lessons this year. And it was when the teacher told us about sex. They use PSHE lessons in my school to fill with rubbish.
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Amber
I don’t have any in my school. I had one once but that was terrible. It was torture. It was for an hour and the boys and girls were in together and they kept looking at us wondering what was wrong with us. I hated it. I wish it had been better. I wish we had them more if they were good instead of the double pe we have 3 times a week which is a waste because we just run. Boring.
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:42 pm
caroline
In Ireland we call PSHE SPHE (social,physical,health education) its ok, we
talk about things like friendship,bullying,fund raising .etc It can be fun but
its not especially productive.
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:15 pm
EleanorLight
I agree with Caroline, SPHE is not very productive as it is taught at the moment. Of course, we learn about things like smoking, alcohol, drugs, and they’re useful for obvious reasons, but we don’t learn anything about appreciating ourselves or our bodies.
SPHE takes place once a week, but our SPHE teacher is also our Religion teacher, and if we are falling behind in Religion she sometimes uses our SPHE classes to make up for it. And attitudes towards it by the students aren’t helpful either. It’s seen as a ‘doss’ and people keep messing around.
Another thing is, it’s hard to buy your books in Ireland, you can’t find them in bookshops. I only found Think Pink in the library when I was eight, and then I didn’t see it again until I was thirteen, last year. Then I bought all your books from Amazon. Girls at school are always complaining about their bodies, it’s horrible to listen to. I’m on a one-woman crusade here people! You should make your books more widely available in Ireland! It’ll do us the world of good.
March 4th, 2010 at 10:04 am
Anna
we have health classes, is that the same? i have it every wednesday afternoon. this year so far we have talked about leaddership and qualities of people (like being kind, smart, honest etc) which we think we have and which ones we would want our friends to have. now were talking about lifestyle deseases. i would like to talk about body image, but i don’t think my PE teacher would do a good job. i think as well as learning about our bodies we need to learn about our minds. health classes of body image with lisa would rock!
i agree with elenor your books aren’t really avalible in australia. i really want to get my hands on beauty*licious.
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March 4th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Millie
We dont even have any at our school…
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March 4th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Iffath.
Mine are really boring. One hour a week of it. Teacher doesn’t listen to you, assumes you just want to cause trouble for everyone, no wonder I didn’t let her meet my parent’s at parent’s evening ;D
At the moment, we are doing about laws and rule and stuff, and all we ever do is watch videos - how exactly does that help us? All I found out from this class was that you can drink in the privacy of your own home from the age of 5 - and this came from a textbook.
I’d like to talk about body image, we haven’t covered that, and it would be interesting to hear what people think.
March 4th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
sophie
seriously thay would have been fab!!!!!!!!
March 7th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Emma
PSHE? Never heard of it before, we don’t have it at my school…
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Oh well
March 21st, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Natalie Newham
At my old school, you used to have one PSHE lesson every fortnight that lasted for an hour. Most kids used it as an excuse to mess about, though there was infinitely more interest in the sex education ones LOL!
I think that in general, body image classes would be brilliant, as long as you can get everyone to participate and listen. I think that it would be beneficial to kids to know that they are not alone with their body worries.
March 21st, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Hannah
Our PSHE lessons are OK but hardly productive because my class is so loud and noisy that instructions aren’t heard so our form tutor has to say it all over again. We usually work on sheets and keep them in a folder. The lessons are once a week and last for 45 minutes. I go to a girls’ school so we should be able to be talked to about body image and looking after yourself. But we had a visit from a man who was once homeless and we talk about online dangers and ourselves as individuals a lot. I think that schools just give lessons on what seems to be a problem in society, so the bigger issues get dealt with first and the rest are left. I really do enjoy PSHE as a subject but I think we could get a lot further in helping everyone in class by doing surveys on what we want to know about and having open discussions about anything.