More Confusion in Labour's Schools' Policy: putting the sex back into education !

Sex education for 5 year-olds would have been an impossible idea -
but even relationship education will be difficult. My youngest child
is 10 & I can't think that he would have been able to understand the
sort of themes that must be meant by this at that age. Learning
through drama maybe ( although primary kids get little enough chance
for this with the National Curriculum) & working with little ones to
understand the emotions they are going through when they fight or
bully or are upset is a possibility - anger management, sharing,
being supportive. But these are addressed in schools already -
through one to one relationships between teachers, children & parents
& through circle time.

Suggesting that primary teachers need a specific curriculum on this
detracts from their professionalism. Most teachers who stay with one
class day by day through an entire year would seek to address those
issues. Most parents would also probably prefer to have the facts of
life revealed to their children by themselves & when they themselves
feel the child is ready for it.