Week6 - 2024
Week6 takes place from February 5 to 9, 2024. This time, the theme is communication and relationships. Here you can find some ideas and tools specifically tailored to this year's theme.
In the Week6 homepage toolkits, you can also find various instructional materials that are relevant to this year's theme.
Week6 Theme 2024
The theme of Week6 this year is communication and relationships.
The theme can be explored in a variety of ways, based on the age and development of each child group.
Related to this theme, one can discuss:
- Friendship
- Family
- What are the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships?
- Attraction, love and heartbreak
- Rejection
- Pressure
- What do good communication looks like?
- What do poor communication looks like?
- Jealousy and control
- Initiative
- Respect, trust and safety
- Betrayal
- Conversation, expression and listening
- Responsibility in communication
Teaching idea - Healthy and unhealthy communication
This exercise trains students to identify positive and healthy communication, areas for improvement, and negative, unhealthy, or even abusive communication. The exercise involves active participation from the entire group.
Teaching idea - Dilemma scenarios
Here you can find some dilemma scenarios that may be good for students to try. It's ideal to divide the students into small groups, and each group gets a story to discuss and suggest solutions for.
Teaching ideas for preschool and lower primary school
Here are project ideas to work on with students related to the Week6 theme.
Teaching ideas for mid-level
Here you can find teaching ideas related to Week6 for mid-level.
Healthy and unhealthy communication
Video for mid-level students about healthy and unhealthy communication.
Teaching idea - Song lyrics
Here you can find a suggestion for a group project based on song lyrics. Each group receives song lyrics to work with and analyze for messages about communication and relationships.
Debates
Here you can find ideas for classroom debates. The classroom is divided into two areas where students can take a stance on whether they agree or disagree with certain statements. The project is ideal for training students to argue their case and show them that it's okay to change their mind.
Texts related to QR codes
Here you can find links to texts related to short videos with QR codes that were distributed to all youth centers in the city. The texts are also very suitable for use in teaching.
Results of the youth meeting
A youth meeting for Week6 2024 was held on December 6, 2023. All City primary schools were invited to send two officers to the meeting. In total, about 70 interested, happy, and imaginative young people attended the meeting and discussed sex education. They also discussed the theme for the next Week6, its content and focus. Below you can see what they most want to learn about and what messages they have for adults regarding sex education for young people.
Results of the youth meeting: Note: Starred boxes indicate that many adolescents consider the issue important. The more stars, the more important in their opinion.
Educational videos 2024
During Week6 2024, we met several couples who told us about their relationships and communication.
Educational videos produced for this occasion can be found here.
