Sex and Relationships Lessons

Year 3
• Lesson 1: ‘Relationships – what’s a good friend?’
• Lesson 2: ‘Friendship – Developing Empathy’
• Lesson 3: ‘Similarities and differences between boys and girls.’ Looking at boy / girl stereotypes, introducing the main physical difference between ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ through pictures of babies, without using formal sex organ language
• Lesson 4: ‘Appropriate and inappropriate touching’

Year 4
• Lesson 1: ‘Family differences – What is family?’
• Lesson 2: ‘People’s life cycle’ and responsibilities change
• Lesson 3: ‘Physical differences between boys and girls.’ Name parts of the body. Use correct names for parts of the body including the sexual organs
• Lesson 4: ‘Growing up and being safe’ – all children have the right to feel safe, know where to get help and advice if they feel unsafe

Year 5
• Lesson 1 – ‘Friendship’ – Similarities and differences between people contribute to a variety of friendships
• Lesson 2 – ‘Physical changes in adolescence’

• Lesson 3 – Adolescents – Boys / Girls Groups – Period, changes for boys. Separate lessons for boys and girls so that more detailed questions can be answered
• Lesson 4 – ‘Adolescents

Year 6
• Lesson 1 – ‘Relationships – What is love?’
• Lesson 2 – ‘Adolescents – the importance of physical hygiene’. Consider emotional changes as well
• Lesson 3 – ‘Reproduction’ – Review body parts, discuss conception
• Lesson 4 – ‘Relationships, conception and pregnancy’. Activities in relationships,
reviewing conception, considering infant development, being healthy during
pregnancy, birth and feeding the baby