[armand.kay]

Originally Posted by Ant.

The sex ed I learnt in first year completely went out my head (and not to play Devil's advocate, but if sex ed is being taught as part of Biology like I was, is it really Biology?) whereas I can remember a lot of the contraception and STD talks in year 9. And that's not by virtue of it being more recent - when I was learning about contraception and STIs in Year 9 I had forgotten all of the Year 7 content. It's certainly more relevant at the age of 13/14 than 11/12

imo my school handled it all pretty well. We had science lessons in year 6 and 7 that taught us about sex as a means of reproduction. In year 7 and 9 we had an external group come in and teach us about consent, contraception, safe sex and std's basically sex from a less clinical perspective. They also had an office in school where you could go and speak to them about any concerns you may have etc they also gave out c-cards.

[Ant.]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

imo my school handled it all pretty well. We had science lessons in year 6 and 7 that taught us about sex as a means of reproduction. In year 7 and 9 we had an external group come in and teach us about consent, contraception, safe sex and std's basically sex from a less clinical perspective. They also had an office in school where you could go and speak to them about any concerns you may have etc they also gave out c-cards.

I'm so uneducated on it all I had to google what a c-card is

We learnt about is as a mean of reproduction in year 7, same as you, but that was it. We only learnt about consent, contraception, safe sex and std's in Year 9, but there was some bias as we learnt about it from a religious aspect.
We had no office for that, and there's no office at my college... I didn't realise that was a thing, that's such a good idea

The only external help we had for consent/STIs was a drama group coming in in Year 10 and doing a drama about unsafe sex and how a girl got pregnant and decided to abort the child. For an idea as to how poorly executed it was, a girl had to leave the room because the play made her upset (she had an abortion a month before the play )