It is not compulsory for primary school children to be taught sex education. However, the statutory science curriculum and the statutory relationships education curriculum does require us to teach how our bodies change and how animals have babies that grow up for example, so we feel that there may be a gap in the children’s understanding if we didn’t address sexual intercourse and conception.
The resources we use are from The Christopher Winter Project and are available to view below.
The lesson which teaches about Sex is in Year 6, Lesson 3: Families, Conception and Pregnancy.
We use picture resources and a BBC video during the lesson: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/pshe-ks2-operation-ouch-how-are-babies-made-sex/zsxtp4j