Activities

Ask young people to discuss one or more of the following prompts before and after viewing the whole, or part, of the programme. Explore the reasons for any changes in opinion.

• What is normal? Is there a difference between what is normal for girls and what is normal for boys?
• What gets people into trouble at school and why do they behave this way?
• Why are some people more confident, popular and attractive to the opposite sex than others?
• Do codes of conduct and ground rules help people to behave and get on better with each other?
• If no one is perfect, is it worth worrying about what other people think of you?
• Is it true that most young people do something first and think about the consequences later?
• When adults ask personal questions or offer advice are they generally trying to help you or give you grief?
• Tough love and boot camps - can they really help people to change and why?

After viewing the programme, select and display a pair of words from the list below. Ask students for words and phrases describing how people feel and behave when they are in these emotional states. Explore with students the action they could take to help them maintain the positive emotional state.

• Happy / Miserable
• Confident / Insecure
• Calm / Angry
• Enthusiastic / Bored

After viewing the programme, invite students to:

• devise a set of ground rules to help them work together and support each other
• propose action for members of the school community to take to help students with problems similar to those featured in the programme
• use the internet and other resources to research the help that young people can get with these problems, and present their findings.