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Grade 7 YD: Health Education --Puberty

December 12, 2022

It is in the midst of winter, and Christmas is almost near. Christmas decorations have been already put up everywhere, and the temperature is dropping every day. The students of grade seven are all excited for the Christmas break. However, they will need to take an important lesson before this.

It was a cloudy December day, and after the tense PBA presentations and Science tests, the students arrived at an assigned homeroom to gather around and listen to a puberty lecture by the homeroom teachers in the Youth Development class.

The seventh grade for most students is a year when puberty starts to begin and it is important to help the students understand what puberty is, what happens in puberty, and how students should face puberty. Boys and girls had class separately, to promise the privacy from opposite genders. In class, the students learned what puberty is, ways their body would change, how to accept their body’s change and what they should keep in mind. The teachers talked about body growth, including hormonal changes and physical as well as emotional developments. They also mentioned how they should react to these changes and ways to accept our new body.

Puberty lesson is a significant way to inform and teach students about growing up and students will learn to accept their body changes through the course. Although many students felt slightly uncomfortable and embarrassed in the lecture, puberty lesson was inevitable and it was the best approach to tell teenagers experiencing puberty how to accept both the physical and mental changes. No one should feel embarrassed of their developing body, and it is important to know that the changes are very normal.

Written by Esther 7(2)

Supervised by Fergal Lochhead

Pictures by Grade 7 teachers

Edited by Serene Yang