Yr1 Sex Education

[AelinAshriver]

They are starting Sex Education next term. In Year 1 and Year 2, the focus is only on naming external body parts accurately.

They sent the following resource for parents to view.

That is a Vulva isn't it? The vagina is the inside? Just want the consensus here first before I query it with the school.

And to gather your thoughts on wibu in bringing it up anyway?

I think the school would 🙄if you queried it, tbh, OP. At Y1 it won't really matter and it would seem sensible to start with the most 'common' terminology they might hear before going on to anything more detailed, even if it's not entirely accurate. I think it's fine.

Yes please don't bring this up

Yes you would be totally unreasonable bringing this up! What is wrong with a child learning the name of a body part?

Did you misread the OP? It's the wrong name for that body part.

You wouldn't call a penis 'testicles' so why would you use the wrong name for a vulva?

Yes I'd bring it up. The resource is external but there's no need for the incorrect vocab to be used. Hopefully the teacher uses both words when identifying the specific body parts.

Although I must admit I also rolled my eyes at the word tummy.

I hate the visuals, the zooming in on chopped body parts is not great and dehumanising. I'm not sure I needed to know the word anus in year 1 but the vagina bit is bonkers. You can't even see the vagina just the vulva. Also it shouldn't be tummy but abdomen in keeping with the other terminology. Tummy is colloquially and childlike when the other words are not. I don't like that juxtaposition. The mouth looks like grown up mouth and a bit large and weird and the head is faceless.

All in all a really shite visualisation with unreliable and in incorrect labelling. I give it fail and suggest to bin it.

@NisekoWhistler

There is nothing wrong with a child learning the name of a body part. I'd just prefer them to learn the name of the correct body part 🤷

Please complain about belly button. Should be tummy button, clearly.

No one needs to complain. Pointing out errors is helpful after all the school surely doesn't want to teach children wrongly? If learning about body parts matters that much at this age it matters that it's done correctly.

Yes I’d say something. It’s not correct because that picture isn’t a vagina.

My grandmother genuinely had never heard the word vulva and learnt it from her six year old great grandson. It is usually now taught in schools I thought.

I think where the photo is pointing suggests it's internal a bit like the arrow on the anus. You can just teach your own child that the outside part is called a vulva and the inside part is called a vagina. Or the teacher may well include that in her lesson. It's close enough and does the job for that age group, it's very clear what area of their body they are talking about opposed to 'cookie' or 'flower' or any other Cutesy names.

I used to teach biology at secondary and the first lesson was always for the students to write down all of the names they knew of for reproductive parts and there were always some weirdly creative ones.

Yes, bring it up. It defeats the entire purpose of the lesson if they're teaching them the incorrect names, they wouldn't call a leg an arm, so why call a vulva a vagina?

There are also arrows on testicles though, belly button etc