| Sex Education |
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| Changes during Adolescence |
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Learning Objective:
To provide students with in-depth knowledge on the physical and psychological changes during puberty and how to cope with them.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.2 students
Core message:
- Physical changes during puberty are natural and there is no need to compare
with others.
- When troubled by pubertal changes, seek help and do not blindly believe in
myths.
- Adolescents long for independence, but they are still relying on their parents and may easily clash with older generations.
- Express one’s inner feelings, needs and expectations can improve the acceptance from parents. We can also be more confident and independent if we improve our mutual understanding with parents and learn to compromise.
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| Friendship and Love (I) |
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Learning Objective:
Learn the attitude towards interacting with the opposite gender and factors need to be considered before falling in love, which helps to establish good relationship with the opposite gender.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.3 students
Core message:
- Although friendship and romantic love share similarities, there are certain characteristics unique to romantic relationships, such as expectation of loyalty and having romantic feelings.
- When interacting with the opposite gender, it is important to maintain an appropriate social distance and avoid ambiguous languages and behaviours.
- One should get to know each other well before falling in love and understand having romantic relationship with others might bring impacts on academics, finance, emotions, interpersonal relationship, etc.
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| Friendship and Love (II) |
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Learning Objective:
Understand the similarities and differences between friendship and romantic love, and recognise the importance of considering one’s sacrifice and possible consequence before entering into a relationship.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- As there are many similarities between love and friendship, it can sometimes cause misunderstandings and conflicts.
- When getting along with the opposite sex, it is important to reflect on one’s own words to see if they are too intimate and could lead to misunderstandings.
- Before committing to a relationship, it is important to consider one’s own devotion and possible outcomes and avoid expecting that investing emotions on someone will necessarily lead to a happy ending.
- When dating, one should be alert if one’s daily life is being dominated by the relationship.
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| Friendship and Love (III) |
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Learning Objective:
Understand the techniques for getting along with your partner harmoniously and ways to deal with the emotions after breakups.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- Love should ideally comprise of three components: Passion, Intimacy and Commitment.
- To get along with our partner harmoniously, we should treasure our own feelings, communicate openly with each other and set boundary for physical contact.
- When ending a relationship, one should be thoughtful about the right time, place and environment to explain the reasons to reduce damage caused to both parties.
- After a breakup, it is important to give oneself a reasonable amount of time to process one’s feelings. Seek help from teachers or professionals promptly when needed.
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| Sex and Love |
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Learning Objective:
Learn the relationship between sex and love, and the ways to handle sexual impulse.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- Love includes three essential components: Passion, Intimacy and Commitment. If there is only passion (sex) but lack of intimacy and commitment, it may lead to problems in the relationship.
- Sex is a normal act based on love and marriage between a man and a woman.
- Adolescents should use appropriate methods to handle and avoid inducing sexual impulse.
- Sex may result in serious consequences that both parties are unwilling and unable to bear, and with great and long term impact. Hence adolescents should always be rational and learn to say “no”.
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| Rather Have None Than Having Too Much |
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Learning Objective:
Equip students with the knowledge on the consequences of casual sex and the importance of safe sex.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- Casual sex may lead to sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, and unintended pregnancy, and other negative impacts that are difficult to bear both physically and mentally.
- Safe sex refers to maintaining a single sexual relationship with someone who has not been infected with any sexually transmitted diseases.
- Teenager engaging in sexual behavior can affect their relationship and personal growth due to immaturity.
- Pre-marital pregnancy can bring various fears, pressure and problems, which are difficult for adolescents to cope with.
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| Contraception |
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Learning Objective:
Learn the principles and different contraceptive methods for family planning.
Target audience:
F.3 to F.6 students
Core message:
- ‘Sexual behavior’ is not equivalent to ‘love’. Love is about mutual respect and consideration for each other, but not recklessly indulging in desires and ignoring consequences.
- Adolescents should first carefully consider his or her ability to bear the consequences. Never under estimate the consequences of having sex.
- The only 100% guaranteed safe measure to prevent pregnancy is to refuse sex.
- The students should understand the correct methods of contraception for family
planning in the future.
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| Sexual Harassment |
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Learning Objective:
To provide students with knowledge on sexual harassment and its management.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- Sexual harassment means one party acts or speaks in a way related to sex which is unwelcoming to the other party.
- Some acts, even if unintentional or as a playful joke, can create a work or learning environment that makes the victim of sexual harassment feel unsafe.
- Stay calm when encounter sexual harassment and handle the situation appropriately depending on the circumstances.
- When interacting with people of the same or opposite sex, we must respect each other and pay attention to the others feelings.
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| Pornography |
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Learning Objective:
Understand the impact of pornography culture on teenagers, and learn to resist distorted sexual consciousness and establish correct sexual attitudes.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- Many adolescents regard mass media as major source of sex knowledge and
they should learn how to distinguish between fact and fallacy in order to protect
themselves.
- Some media distort the image and relationship between the two genders, thereby lowering the moral standards and level of shame of adolescents and causing them to commit acts of indecency, such as uploading and downloading indecent photographs and sending messages with obscene content.
- The faulty views about sex advocated by mass media exaggerate the excitement
of sex and deliberately avoid mentioning the responsibility and consequences of
sex.
- Adolescents have to analyse the faulty views about sex advocated by the media from different perspectives and avoid actively contacting pornographic information.
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| Diet and Nutrition |
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| Smart Eating for the New Generation |
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Learning Objective:
To enhance the understanding of balanced diets and develop healthy eating habits.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.3 students
Core message:
- Eating in proportion according to the recommendations of the healthy eating pyramid is essential.
- Saturated and trans fats can increase bad cholesterol levels, leading to blood clots.
- Sufficient calcium intake is crucial to bone health. From the age of thirty, the rate of natural calcium loss from bones will accelerate, which can cause a decrease in bone density.
- Dietary fiber helps prevent constipation, stabilise blood sugar and reduce blood cholesterol levels.
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| Weight Management and Healthy Eating – Be a Fit and Healthy Person |
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Learning Objective:
Understand the importance of maintaining a healthy weight and clarify common misconception about weight control.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- Losing weight and losing fat are not the same. Fat loss means reducing fat mass, while weight reduction can involve losing body fluid or muscle.
- The principle of weight management involves the balancing between calorie intake and expenditure.
- Consuming sufficient calories does not necessarily mean obtaining sufficient nutrition. Therefore, when choosing foods, it is essential to adhere to the principles of healthy eating.
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| Food Labels: How to make Healthy Eating Choices for Prepackaged Foods |
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Learning Objective:
Learn to read food labels to make healthy choices.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- When reading nutrition labels, pay attention to the serving size, calorie and seven key nutrients contents of prepackaged foods.
- We should limit the total intake of fats, sugars and sodium in our diet. For every 100 grams of food, we should avoid choosing products with more than 15 grams of sugar, more than 20 grams of fat and more than 600 milligrams of sodium.
- Trans fat increases bad cholesterol and decreases good cholesterol in the body, which is detrimental to cardiovascular health.
- Be cautious of nutrition-related claims and carefully read nutrition labels to choose a healthier prepackaged food option.
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| Healthier Snacks for a Healthier Eating Habit |
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Learning Objective:
Understand the importance of choosing snacks for a healthier eating habit.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.3 students
Core message:
- Healthy snacks can supplement the calories, fluids and nutrients that are lacking in main meals, but cannot replace them.
- When eating snacks, pay attention to the timing and amount to avoid affecting the appetite for the next main meal.
- Snacks should be chosen based on the principles of the healthy eating pyramid and low oil, sugar and salt.
- Making your own snacks and sharing ideas on the cooking process with family and friends is an enjoyable thing to do in your leisure time.
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| Healthy Eating Principles when Dining Out |
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Learning objective:
Learn the principles for healthy eating while dining out.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- When dining out, choose healthy foods that are low in oil, salt, and sugar and high in dietary fiber. Pay attention to ingredients and cooking methods can also help reduce the intake of oil, salt and sugar.
- Follow the recommended serving size of the healthy eating pyramid to avoid overeating.
- Understand the importance of food safety, including the risks of purchasing food online.
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| Anxiety and Adversity Management |
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| Formula for Adversity Management (I): Method for Coping with Stress and Negative Emotions in Facing Adversity |
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Learning Objective:
Understand methods for coping with stress and negative emotions to enhance abilities to face adversity positively.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- When facing adversity, we may easily experience stress, negative thoughts and feelings, such as feeling incompetent, lack of support and hopeless.
- The key to coping with stress is to identify the sources of stress, and then use proper ways to handle them, such as adjusting the level of demands and strengthening our coping abilities.
- Reflecting on the accuracy of our beliefs and learning positive thinking can help reduce negative emotions.
- Appropriate handling of stress and negative emotions can help us enhance our ability to face adversity.
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| Formula for Adversity Management (II): Handling adversity with Resilience |
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Learning objective:
Learn the methods to cope with adversity to increase resilience.Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 studentsCore message:
- When we face adversity, we tend to have negative thoughts and feelings, such as feeling incompetent, lack of support and hopeless.
- When we are restrained by negative thoughts and emotions, we can use different methods to help ourselves break through the restraints, thus better handling the adverse situation.
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“ROAD” can help us cope with adversity. Reflection - Recognise the current hardship and set goals to break through from it. Optimism - Believe that we have ways to solve the problems. Abilities - Make good use of our abilities and resources. Development - Strengthen our morale and determination to overcome difficulties.
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| Managing Exam Anxiety: Coping Strategies for Students |
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Learning Objective:
Understand exam anxiety and its coping methods to alleviate its negative impacts.
Target audience:
F.4 to F.6 students
Core message:
- Anxiety is a natural emotional response when facing threats and stress.
- Relaxation techniques can effectively reduce the negative impact of stress on our body and mind.
- Practising healthy habits, talking to others and learning positive thinking can improve the ability to cope with stress.
- Excessive anxiety can interfere with normal life and seeking help from professionals may be necessary.
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| Understanding Anxiety and Stress-Reduction Techniques |
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Learning Objective:
Raise students’ awareness of anxiety and stress, learn evidence-based stress reduction methods, and understand the keys to preventing and alleviating excessive stress.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Content:
- Learn about anxiety and stress.
- Recognise the signs of anxiety and stress and their impact on physical and mental health.
- Learn how to prevent and reduce excessive stress.
- Learn evidence-based stress reduction method (on-site practice).
- Introduce relevant community resources.
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| Healthy use of Internet |
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| Guidelines for Safe and Healthy Internet Usage |
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Learning Objective:
Understand the principles of using the internet and the things to be aware of when interacting with people.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- When using the internet, it is important to protect personal privacy and refrain from meeting with strangers online in order to ensure our safety.
- The online world is not a virtual world, and improper behavior online may also violate the law, such as defamation, criminal intimidation, etc.
- Setting personal goals, developing interests, and scheduling activities can help improve self-control when accessing the internet.
- Seeking meaningful goals and establishing good interpersonal relationships in real life can prevent addiction to the online world.
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| Internet Threats |
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Learning Objective:
Raise students’ awareness of two major online crises (“cyberbullying” and “exploitation of digital footprint”). Understand their serious consequences, and learn effective coping and prevention strategies.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Content:
- Understand cyberbullying and the consequences it can bring.
- Learn effective coping and prevention strategies.
- Learn about digital footprint.
- Learn how to protect our digital footprint.
- Introduce relevant community resources.
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| Interpersonal Relationships |
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| Effective Communication Techniques for Building Good Interpersonal Relationships |
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Learning Objective:
Learn basic communication and response techniques to build good interpersonal relationships.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.3 students
Core message:
- In the process of communication, there are often barriers in transmission and reception, leading to misunderstandings.
- Effective communication involves mutual understanding, clarifying misunderstanding and sharing of our feelings.
- Respectful, kind and sincere are desirable attitudes for communication, which can promote mutual trust.
- Paying attention to tone, content and body language when listening can help understand the other person’s feelings and give appropriate responses.
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| Effective Communication with Parents |
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Learning objective:
Learn the appropriate skills and attitude when communicate with parents.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- One should take the initiative to strengthen communication with parents.
- The attitudes that should be taken when communicating with parents include respect, consideration, patience, acceptance and caring.
- Harmonious communication with parents can promote parent-child relationships.
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| Handling Conflicts with Parents |
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Learning Objective:
Understand the causes of conflicts between adolescents and parents and how to handle them.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- Conflicts often arise from small things. If conflicts can be handled properly, the relationship between generations will be more harmonious.
- When conflicting with parents, we should avoid using opposing, evading and disrespectful attitude.
- When handling conflicts, we should first remain calm and objective. At a suitable time, we can come up with an agreeable solution after understanding each other’s needs and suggestions.
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| Getting along with Friends: Strategies for Establishing Harmonious Relationships |
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Learning objective:
Learn the principles of getting along with friends in order to establish a good peer relationship.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- Happy to stay with (share common interests), help others (willing to help friends) and serve the community (be civic-minded and responsible) are the qualities of a good friend.
- Learn and apply the principles of getting along with friends, which are helping and respecting each other, be frank, distinguishing right from wrong, setting boundaries and 3 “Don’ts” principles (Don’t harm others, Don’t harm yourself, Don’t damage).
- The principle of getting along with friends on online platforms is basically the same as in the real world but pay more attention to respecting others, protecting privacy and distinguishing friends who can communicate frankly.
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| Others |
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| Resist Temptations: Say NO to Smoking, Drinking and Drugs |
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Learning objective:
Recognise the harms of smoking, alcohol drinking and drug taking in order to enhance our refusal skills in facing temptation and make a smart choice.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.3 students
Core message:
- Tobacco and alcohol are classified as Group 1 carcinogens which cause various types of cancer.
- Drug taking not only cause permanent damage to the brain function but also causes damages to other body organs.
- When you are tempted to smoke, drink or take drugs, you should use the refusal skills - "seven resist temptations methods" flexibly to reject the temptation.
- Do not use smoking, alcohol, or drugs to relax or escape from problems. Seek help from parents, teachers, social workers or professionals instead.
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| Mastering the Art of Learning: Techniques and Strategies |
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Learning Objective:
Understand memory techniques and methods to improve concentration and increase learning efficiency.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.3 students
Core message:
- Adequate sleep, a positive attitude and a comfortable environment can help improve our concentration.
- Effective memory techniques include categorisation, visualization, mind mapping, and association.
- To effectively memorise key points, it is important to understand the content of the material, make the information meaningful and organise it in a systematic way.
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| Mastering the Art of Learning: Managing Stress in Learning |
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Learning Objective:
Understand the effects of stress on individuals and methods for relieving stress in learning.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.3 students
Core message:
- When experiencing physical and mental discomfort due to stress, one should take appropriate measures to relieve stress in a timely manner.
- The key to coping with stress is to identify the sources of stress, and then use proper ways to handle the stress, such as adjusting the level of demands and strengthening our coping abilities.
- If the symptoms of stress continue to affect daily life, such as persistent insomnia or long-term depressed mood, seek help from friends, social workers or teachers.
- Exams are just a stage in one’s learning journey and do not need to be compared with others.
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| Setting Goals (I): Reflecting on the Importance of Goal-setting |
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Learning Objective:
Reflect on the importance of setting goals and the factors that need to be considered when doing so.
Target audience:
F.4 to F.6 students
Core message:
- Setting goals can help us find clear direction and motivate us to work towards them.
- Establishing goals required patience, exploration and verification, which can be done through daily reflection.
- When setting goals, factors such as feasibility, personal abilities and experience, resource and environmental factors should be considered to increase the chances of success in achieving the goals.
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| Setting Goals (II): What’s the Technique |
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Learning Objective:
Learn the techniques for setting personal goals.
Target audience:
F.4 to F.6 students
Core message:
- After setting goals, taking action is necessary for achieving them.
- It is important to review our goals and plans regularly and adjust them according to personal experience and abilities.
- To achieve our goals, we should be proactive in facing challenges and should not give up easily.
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| Adapting to Secondary School: Helping You Navigate Psychological and Social Challenges |
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Learning Objective:
Understand the common psychological and social changes that teenagers face during the transition to secondary school, and the method to help them adapt.
Target audience:
F.1 students to-be
Core message:
- Understand that various psychological and social changes will be encountered when transiting to secondary school.
- Learn how to build self-discipline and self-care technique, make good use of leisure time for all-round personal development.
- It is important to proactively communicate with family members and gradually establish independence and self-reliance.
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| Preventing Bullying Behaviour at School |
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Learning Objective:
Understand bullying behaviour and its effects, and enhance personal awareness in order to prevent bullying at school.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- Bullying behaviour causes physical and emotional harm to the victim and is a serious behavioural problem.
- Do not ignore others’ feelings, even the acts are unintentional or as a playful joke, to prevent bullying behaviour from happening.
- The online world is not entirely virtual and inappropriate behaiour may violate the laws. Therefore, we should adhere to online etiquette.
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| Understanding the Risks and Harm of Gambling: Building Self-Control over Gambling |
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Learning Objective:
Understand the characteristics and harm of gambling and clarify misconceptions to enhance self-control over gambling.
Target audience:
F.1 to F.6 students
Core message:
- Gambling is highly risky which is uncontrollable by participants. The excitement brought by gambling can easily lead to addiction with far-reaching consequences.
- Gambling not only affects the individual’s emotion, finances, learning or work performance, but also damages relationships with family and friends.
- Establishing the correct values and cultivating good habits can effectively prevent participation in gambling.
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