Learning Intentions
Sex: How people have sex/what do they do?
• Children recap learning about their body including sexual organs/genitals.
• Children recap learning about puberty and physical and emotional changes.
• Children are given basic knowledge about having sex (intercourse). This supports other RSHP learning.
• This activity places sex as part of adult relationships which are characterised by kindness, love and intimacy.
• The activity corrects what children at this young age may have learned by being exposed to media representations of sex, including pornography.
• The age of consent is introduced.
How human life begins, pregnancy and birth
• Children know the names for parts of their body required to understand conception, pregnancy and birth.
• Children understand where living things come from.
Lesson Resources
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School and Home Information
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