Chronicle

The PASCAL ChronicleIn-school workshops for PASCAL pupils by the Cyprus FamilyPlanning AssociationOn Thursday 17 th January 2013, The Cyprus Family Planning Association(CFPA) conducted workshops on sexuality education to pupils inYears 1 and 3 of PASCAL English School Lefkosia and Ελληνική ΣχολήΠΑΣΚΑ Lefkosia.The Cyprus Family Planning Association (CFPA) is a non-governmental,non-profit organization founded in Cyprus in 1971. Recognizing the need for continuous and furthereducation it has recently enriched and reorganized the various series of educational programmes, lecturesand workshops offered. These include educational lectures and workshops, or series of lectures andworkshops aimed at various groups, including young people, students, parents, teachers and other professionals.Topics covered include sexuality, relationships, gender, communication, fertility and contraception,sexual and reproductive rights and more.The workshops took place as part of the schools’ on going Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE)programme in an effort to provide a comfortable atmosphere in which the pupils could learn about crucialissues which are part of their everyday lives. The time was dedicated to both informative and interactiveactivities which the pupils thoroughly enjoyed finding the topics of great interest and especially informative.The association also gave an informative lecture to parents/guardians on Tuesday 29 th January on theschool premises. Two more workshops were conducted for pupils of Years 5 and 6 in March and April respectively.26