When do they first have sex ed?

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Discussing with DH... what age do they get the first sex ed talk?

Depends on the school. I think that it is Yr 5 at ours.

Yr 5?
I think.
More to do with hygiene and peer pressure and puberty and the mechanics of sperm meets egg,if I remember correctly.We were called in to a parents meeting beforehand,(all mums turned up )

yes year 5 we all (the mums) went in to see the video which was a cartoon hippy man chasing a woman around the bed with a flower, bizarre.

It depends on the school.
Sex ed is not compulsory in the nat curriculum until KS4.
If a primary school chooses to teach it then it will have had to discuss it and should have a policy on it.
You can withdraw a child from sex ed if you wish.
I'm sure someone can give you a better explanation of the nat cur than this, but that's the basics.

yr 5 here

Yr 5 here too. And apparently the boys laugh and the girls blush...according to my niece! lol

In year 5. They do it in 3 or 4 sessions at the end of the summer term. Boys & girls watch videos together but for the last session boys and girls are separated.The school nurse comes into school and talks to the boys. Then she and a male teacher answer any questions they have.This is repeated with the nurse and a female teacher for the girls. They also open 'a question box' that the children have posted annonymous(sp) questions in.
Parents did get to watch the videos.... felt very strange watching in the school hall.It wasn't a cartoon video....full frontal of real man and woman which changed into line diagrams to show the male & female parts. It also described exactly how the sperm reached the egg... but it didn't show it!
The film also covered puberty. One mother was a bit upset that her DD(a young year 5) would be hearing about wet dreams.
Personnaly I wish this was covered in year 6 not 5. But mine are boys and some mothers of girls thought year 5 was OK.

yr 3 but a very gentle nudge ,Yr 5 is the biggie

the pilicy has to be reiveiewd annnaually but th governors
they ahev a meetinfg ofr parentsof year 5 kdis at ours

dd was told by her French teacher that the man puts a seed in the woman's front bottom. She was all disturbed thinking it was like a plant seed! I was most annoyed! She was only 5 then!

I've already explained it all to my 4yo, he asked some very penetrating (pardon pun) questions in the veg aisle at Sainsburys one day, so I took him outside and explained the lot. He was fascinated

I think our attitude to sex ed in this country is MADNESS. It's no wonder we have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe. We act like it's a huge deal, rather than the set of bodily functions that it is. We ought to look at how things are done in the Netherlands, where 10 year olds can discuss their gentials without collapsing into fits of giggles and dying of embarrassment.

Sorry to hijack with my ranting! Carry on as before...

We didn't get sex ed. until year 6 and even then it was very very basic we only got decent sex ed. (as in learning everything you need to know) this school year (year 10) by which age its a bit too late really.

Thankyou

think the seed analogy is rather good at that age tbh

Greensleeves, I'm you didn't make use of all those excellent visual aids in the veg aisle!

Puberty can start round about the age of 8 for some girls; it does seem appropriate to let them know what's happening to them, so I don't think Year 3 is too young. I have to admit that any sex ed. sessions my children have attended have made so little impression that they haven't told me about them, but then that could be because I had already explained it. I went to a meeting for parents on sex education that was on the lines of the one sugarfree attended, but there was a very low turnout at our school.

year 5 here - a very old fashioned but OK video shown to boys and girls mostly about puberty and very passing reference to the sex bit. Then the boya and girls went off to seperate rooms with a school nurse for a more detailed chat and question and answer session - once again mostly centered on puberty and the need to wash! Parents were asked if we wanted to see the video in advance. I did, simply because I wanted to know what I'd be answering questions on at home later and found myself stuck in the staff room with a group of other parents I'd never seen before all with deeply religious smiles who were obviously praying silently for me within seconds and who took their children home immediately. One thing that REALLY annoyed me - dd came out with an excellent colour magazine all about periods, boys, friendships and so on which turned out to be a barely concealed advertisement for a well known brand of "sanitary protection". The boys, presumably because there's nothing that can be sold to them, came out with a scruffy photocopied sheet.

Not until Yr6 here and apparently they only cover periods then . I am going to have to buy dd a book.....

not soon enough, IMO.

Saw great programme about sex ed earlier this year on Channel 4 schools hosted by Davina. Here's the link to the series incl all the stuff about sex ed in Holland

Anyone got recommendations for a suitable book for a 9yr old? (and her mother who has probably forgotten most of the science bit...)

id just tlak it over meslef

folk complain that our kids grow up too quickly these days, we have ask ourselves why that is.

I'm sad that children aren't children for long enough.

Yes I will talk to her but would like a book as well - so she can refer back to it whenever she wants and also to cover whatever I've forgotten....or asswer any questions I don'tknow the answer to

at the advertising

wonder if mooncups do sponsorship?