Our approach

Every young person deserves Relationship, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) that sees them, reflects their world, and champions their right to consent, respect, and pleasure. 

At Split Banana, our unique approach to this includes:

  • Nurturing social and emotional health: focusing on the link between relationships and mental health, building more positive relationships with the self, helping people to identify healthy and unhealthy behaviours and supporting emotional literacy. 

  • Co-creating relevant content: asking young people what is important to them and how they’d like to learn, working with our Youth Advisory Group to create content which reflects real-life experiences, constantly iterating our content based on feedback. 

  • Championing positive social change: fostering respect for differing opinions and identities, challenging harmful stereotypes, building skills of empathy and kindness. 

A whole-school approach ensures that RSHE is integrated across the curriculum and school culture. When done well, it can transform the way people relate to and treat one another, actively contributing to reducing gender-based violence, LGBTQIA+ discrimination, ableism and other forms of discrimination.

Our vision is simple: support every young person to build healthy relationships with their minds, their bodies, and each other.

Our aims

To deliver whole-school, comprehensive RSHE packages to secondary schools in England.

To design and deliver high quality RSHE for marginalised groups, outside of schools.

To build a multi-disciplinary RSHE community where practitioners can connect and share learnings, skills and knowledge.

Our values

We build empathy

Everyone lives a different life which should be equally respected.

We’re bold

We’re not afraid to use our voice.

We amplify

Sex-ed shouldn’t come from one person’s head. But it still does. And that person is predominantly white, middle class and liberal, just like us. We want to make space, listen, act and collaborate so that everyone has access to a sex-ed that reflects themselves and their experiences. 

We keep step

In an ever-evolving world, we listen to what young people need and want. 

We’re all about real talk

We don’t sugar coat or patronise, we tell it how it is. 

We’re creative

We want to bring play and lightness to young peoples’ days.

We approach everything with kindness

We believe it’s important and powerful. 

We’re in it for the long game

Change takes time, and we’re not going anywhere.

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