Sec Values - Compassion Empathy 5: Qwensley (1/2)

Teacher notes

This session is the 5th in the Compassion and Empathy series within the Secondary Year of Values Programme. It invites students to engage deeply with Qwensley’s personal journey as a young gay man in a conservative Christian community in Curaçao. This session explores Qwensley’s life five years after the main film from the last lesson - how his identity and relationships have evolved, and how community events like Pride celebrate diversity. Students reflect on how sustained empathy and compassion can influence personal growth, and link these ideas to other human stories they’ve encountered in this course. **Lyfta core themes:** Community and Citizenship, Culture and Identity, Equality and Human Rights, Health and Wellbeing, Relationships. **SDGs:** 3, 10. **National Curriculum objectives:** KS3 PSHE R1. about different types of relationships, including families, friendships, romantic or intimate relationships R3. about the similarities, differences and diversity among people of different race, culture, ability, sex, gender identity, age and sexual orientation R39. the impact of stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination on individuals and relationships R40. about the unacceptability of prejudice-based language and behaviour, e.g. sexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia KS4 PSHE R6. about diversity in romantic and sexual attraction; and developing sexuality R10. to understand a variety of faith and cultural practices and beliefs concerning relationships and sexual activity; to respect the role these might play in relationship values KS4 Citizenship - to think about the lives of people living in other places, and people with different values and customs - to realise the nature and consequences of homophobia and how to respond