Awareness Posters for Schools, Teachers, Educators and Facilitators
Designed for staffrooms, classrooms, safeguarding hubs, and youth settings, each visual challenges assumptions, prompts reflection, and helps professionals stay connected to the “why” behind the work. Each comes with useful prompt guidance to help you get the most of conversations with people in your settings.
Because sometimes, one powerful sentence on a wall can shift how we see a child, and how we respond.
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Respect Over Control: School Poster and Discussion Pack
Young people are growing up in a world where harmful messages about masculinity, control, status, rejection and relationships can reach them every day.
Some of those messages are dressed up as confidence.
Some are dressed up as motivation.
Some are dismissed as banter.
Some are absorbed before adults even know they are there.
Respect Over Control has been created to help schools, PRUs, colleges, youth settings and safeguarding teams start these conversations safely, visually and honestly.
This is not about shaming boys.
It is about challenging harmful scripts before they become harmful behaviours.
What this pack helps schools address
Respect Over Control supports conversations around:
- Respect and healthy relationships
- Consent and boundaries
- Online influence and harmful content
- Misogyny and entitlement
- Peer pressure and “banter”
- Rejection and emotional control
- Help-seeking and vulnerability
- Healthy masculinity
- Image sharing and digital behaviour
The pack is designed to help staff move beyond simply saying “this is wrong” and create space for young people to think about what they are seeing, hearing, sharing and normalising.
What’s included
The pack includes:
- 22 Printable poster set
- A3 print-ready poster files
- Staff guidance
- Safeguarding considerations
- Tutor-time discussion prompts
- A 10-minute activity structure
- A 30-minute group discussion structure
- Suggested responses to difficult comments
- Guidance for display around school
- Guidance for targeted work
- Inclusion and accessibility considerations
- Parent/carer wording
- Single-school licence
The staff guidance includes practical sections on how to introduce the posters to pupils, suggested ground rules, key discussion themes, safeguarding considerations, and how to respond to difficult comments such as “this is attacking boys”, “girls do this too”, and “it’s just banter”.
Safeguarding note
Some of the posters may prompt young people to think about their own experiences of harassment, sexual pressure, coercion, humiliation, online abuse, controlling behaviour, unhealthy relationships, peer pressure, image sharing or exposure to harmful content.
Schools and settings should use this resource in line with their own safeguarding and child protection policies. If a young person makes a disclosure or raises a concern, staff should follow their normal safeguarding procedures.
This resource supports professional discussion and education. It does not replace safeguarding procedures, statutory guidance, specialist intervention or professional judgement.
Licence summary
Your purchase includes a single-school licence.
This means the purchasing school or setting may:
- Print and display the posters internally
- Use the posters in lessons, tutor time, assemblies and pastoral work
- Store the resource on a secure internal system
- Display digital versions on internal school screens
- Use the guidance and prompts with staff and pupils
The resource must not be shared with other schools, uploaded publicly, resold, redistributed or used as part of paid external training without written permission from Smart Training and Consultancy Limited.
Multi-school, MAT-wide, local authority and partnership licences are available by request.
FAQ section
Is this resource just for boys?
No. The pack challenges harmful scripts around masculinity, control, entitlement, pressure, respect and relationships, but the conversations are relevant to all young people. The resource is not designed to shame boys or present boys as the problem.
Can we use this in PSHE or RSHE?
Yes. The posters and guidance are designed to support PSHE, RSHE, tutor time, assemblies, safeguarding discussions, pastoral work and targeted group work.
Does this resource address the manosphere?
Yes. The pack helps schools open safe conversations about harmful online influence, misogyny, unhealthy masculinity scripts and the kinds of messages sometimes associated with the manosphere. It does this without shaming boys or turning the issue into “boys versus girls”.
Can we print the posters?
Yes. The pack includes print-ready posters for internal use within the purchasing school or setting.
Can we put the posters on digital screens?
Yes. The single-school licence allows digital display on internal school screens.
Can we share it with another school in our trust?
No. This is a single-school licence. If you want to use the pack across multiple schools, please contact Smart Training and Consultancy Limited for a MAT, local authority or partnership licence.
Is this suitable for primary schools?
The pack has been designed mainly for Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and post-16 settings. Staff should use professional judgement when deciding what is appropriate for their pupils.
Could this resource lead to disclosures?
It may. Some posters address sensitive issues such as pressure, control, harassment, image sharing and unhealthy relationships. Staff should use the pack in line with their school’s safeguarding policy.
Is this a lesson plan?
It is not a full curriculum. It is a poster and discussion pack with staff guidance, tutor-time prompts, short activity structures and discussion support.
Understanding Grooming Tactics and Exploitation: Safeguarding Poster Pack
This pack helps young people and professionals explore some of the common tactics used in grooming and exploitation, including gifts, favours, secrecy, debt and manipulation.
The posters are designed to prompt meaningful discussion about how exploitation may begin through relationships or situations that appear generous, exciting or supportive at first.
This is a practical safeguarding resource for schools and youth settings that want to help students recognise patterns of grooming before harm escalates.
Includes:
- 10 safeguarding posters
- teacher guide
- discussion prompts
- reflection activities
- safeguarding notes
Covers themes such as:
- gifts creating obligation
- favours becoming pressure
- secrecy and control
- debt manipulation
- false opportunities
- grooming through generosity
- exploitation warning signs
Suitable for:
- PSHE
- safeguarding lessons
- tutor time
- exploitation awareness campaigns
- pastoral work
Understanding Criminal Exploitation: Safeguarding Poster Pack
This poster pack is designed to support schools and youth settings in helping young people understand how criminal exploitation can begin through everyday requests, favours and pressure.
The posters highlight recruitment language and situations that can appear small or harmless at first, but may be linked to county lines or wider forms of exploitation.
By using realistic visual scenarios and simple discussion prompts, the pack helps students and staff explore how exploitation can develop gradually.
Includes:
- 10 safeguarding posters
- teacher notes
- discussion questions
- reflection activities
- safeguarding guidance
Covers themes such as:
- county lines recruitment
- carrying items
- travelling for others
- keeping lookout
- emotional pressure
- financial exploitation and money mule tactics
- “easy money” language
Suitable for:
- PSHE
- tutor time
- safeguarding lessons
- county lines awareness work
- alternative provision and PRUs
Recognising Manipulation Pressure and Control Poster Pack
This safeguarding poster pack focuses on the language and behaviours linked to manipulation, coercion, emotional pressure and control.
The posters are designed to help young people think about the difference between healthy concern and unhealthy control, and to recognise how pressure can appear in friendships, peer groups and relationships.
The visual style is direct, relatable and discussion-focused, making it a useful resource for schools and youth settings that want to move beyond generic awareness materials.
Includes:
- 10 posters
- teacher guidance
- discussion prompts
- reflective questions
- safeguarding notes
Covers themes such as:
- location monitoring
- emotional pressure
- ignoring boundaries
- control disguised as care
- respect versus fear
- embarrassment and guilt as pressure
- coercive behaviour
Suitable for:
- PSHE
- relationship education
- tutor time
- safeguarding sessions
- pastoral discussions