[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.