Week6 - 2025
Week6 took place from February 3 to 7, 2025. This year's theme covered the body and genitals. Below are ideas and tools that were tailored to this year's theme.
Week6's educational poster is designed by the Gender Equality Academy's project managers and illustrated by children's book author and illustrator Bergrún Íris Sævarsdóttir. The poster is age-marked for 8th-10th grade and contains various educational tidbits related to this year's theme.
Education packages
The theme can be explored in a variety of ways, based on the age and development of each child group.
The education packages include teaching ideas, assignments and other materials related to this year's theme.
Educational videos
Week6 has two educational videos for 2025, available on YouTube. The videos target middle school and adolescent levels, with accompanying discussion questions and assignments.
Tara Margrét, social worker, discusses body image and body positivity in her video. (11:53 minutes)
Tara Margrét - educational video
Rósa Guðbjörg, makeup artist, discusses different skin types and skincare suitable for adolescents in her video. (10:48 minutes)
Gender Equality Academy YouTube channel
YouTube hosts educational videos produced by the Gender Equality Academy and UngRúv for Week6. Playlists featuring various sex education materials for staff, students and parents are also available.
Educational materials on UngRúv
UngRúv has compiled various sex education materials related to Week6 and published them on its website.
There you can find both international and Icelandic educational materials, dramatic content and Week6 videos from the Gender Equality Academy.
Related to this theme, one can discuss:
- Body types
- Disability
- Body image
- Body acceptance
- Stereotypes
- Social media and comparison
- Puberty and changes in body/genitals
- Changes throughout life
- Hair growth
- Skin care
- Diverse genitals
- Intersex
- Fetal genital development
- Menstrual cycle
- Ejaculation
- Body's response to sexual stimulation
- When to seek medical help and where to go
Results of the youth meeting
A youth meeting for Week6 2025 was held on December 5, 2024. All City primary schools were invited to send two officers to the meeting. About 50 young people attended the meeting and discussed sex education with great interest. They also discussed the theme for the next Week6, its content and focus.