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sex ed in primary schools
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My friends little sister whos in year 6 has just started her periods. She said that 2 other girls have aswell and they knew nothing about them! I don't remember being told about periods in primary school...seeing as girls are getting them younger now should there be more taught about it? I certainly think so!
Ironically i started mine during my first talk about periods a few days after my 12th birthday!
Ironically i started mine during my first talk about periods a few days after my 12th birthday!
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We got some sex ed about our periods in Year 5 and some more sex ed stuff (puberty, mainly) in Year 6.
And yeah, they should be taught more about it. Have they tried talking to the school nurse about this yet?
I didn't get any sex ed at all. Unless "right, lads, don't" counts.
My mother and a family friend (who was also my childminder afterschool) actually sat me down and discussed what seemed (at the time) a very frightening prospect, and a big change when you're young and unencumbered. I think that's the way it should be, though of course schools need to be providing an alternate source of this information for young people whose parents perhaps aren't very forthcoming.
My mu did exactly the same with me - she also gave me a book about it as well.
No really. We should be taught more, they mostly just told us about hygeine and that kind of thing.
Oh my god my boyfriends name is Ed and his friends call him Sex Ed... his friend owns this company and he works for him every once in a while as a consultant and his credit card from there reads "Mr. Sex Ed C..." And his mail gets addressed to him that way...
Anyways, sorry for the randomness, I just had to share
Anyways, very basic stuff in 5th and a little more very basic stuff in 7th we had.
In a primary school? :eek2:
NONCE!!!
Good shout. Call on the mob! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
In year 6 we had more- 6 weeks worth and it was fairly detailed. It covered things like love, relationships and the basics of sex and contraception.
In year 7, at secondary school, we had more but far less detailed than in year 6- and no mention of contraception. Watched a birthing video though which probably served as good contraception for many at least.
In year 8 the tampon lady visited and we got freebies.
In year 9 we had more sex ed and this was the first time that my secondary school bought up contraception (a bit late if you ask me- my school had girls as young as year 7 getting pregnant). My science teacher told us that the longer you keep believing that "all men are bastards" the better which was funny as he was a man.
In year 10 I did GCSE child development and this included a really great sex ed programme- two hours a week for a term- and covered loads of different aspects including relationships- what you want from an ideal partner, STDs including a couple of lessons on HiV and AIDS, contraception, abortion, menstruation stuff, prostate glands, preganancy and birth etc. But this was an optionl gcse course.
In year 11 I was part of a focus group ("randomly selected" my arse) of sex ed in my local area. The standard sex ed was quite poor at my secondary school (for those who didn't take child development gcse). In RE we watched videos about abortion.
In sixth form we got a talk from the nurse for about an hour.
Girls at my primary school had started their periods (a few of them did) and because the girls loos had no sanitary towel bins in them they had to use the teachers loos when they were on
year 8 nothing
year 9 we had a sex day, did about birth, watched videos, were shown scary pictures etc
year 10 the nurse came round a few times during tutor period told us about condoms, how to put them on, how tests are done
year 11...nothing yet, aparrantly getting a lesson on child abuse
not that great tbh, 2 girls in my year have had babies already and i know loads in year 8 or younger are having sex
When I was little and before there was daytime TV like Richard And Judy BBC2 and CH4 showed nothing but educational programmes meant for schools to video tape whilst we're all at school and play back in lessons. BBC 2 would show all the open university programme and chanell 4 had it's own thing for school.
So there would actually be naked people on TV at like 2pm in the afternoon as part of a sex educational video.
A few times I was home sick and these things were on TV :eek2:
we didnt' learn anything in school until we were in year 8 i think
It is also mentioned in the Scottish 5-14 Guidelines in the Health Education bit at Level D, which is P6/P7 (normally). However, again, the Scottish Guidelines aren't mandatory.
I do think that sex ed should be mandatory and if I end up in upper KS2 then I shall definitely include it in my teachings. I was taught about sex in primary school and although I didn't really learn anything it was useful.
It's not a new thing - my Mum got hers when she was 10. I started sex education when I was in year 4, but my Mum had already told me about periods by then. I guess it depends on the school, but I think it's important for both parents and schools to make sure their children aren't ignorant when the day arrives.
Same happened in year 6, we watched some videos bassically on the same stuff.. periods and other changes, sex, giving birth.
Then in year 8 the tampon lady came for like an hour and gave us a talk and this year in citizenship we've had talks about underage pregnancy, bringing up children and STD's.
I learned alot more from friends, TV or the internet, or from talking to my parents when i was younger. It really does need to be improved.
We didn't have sex ed as such in my primary school because it was a pretty strict catholic one, but the boys and girls had separate talks each about puberty and stuff. When I was in Primary 7 a girl and guy in my class claimed they had sex, which at age 11/12, is actually horrific, but goes to show that wether or not you have sex education people who are stupid enough are going to do it anyway.