What’s age appropriate?

When it comes to sex education, lots of people - rightly - have concerns about age appropriateness. Sex and relationships are sensitive topics and every parent and carers’ top priority is to safeguard their child.

And RSHE is a big part of that - every child deserves to be equipped with the tools and knowledge to keep themselves safe and happy. Research has shown that quality RSE can prevent dating and intimate partner violence, child sex abuse, homophobic bullying and much, much more.

We should be speaking honestly, and age appropriately, about sex and relationships at an earlier age, especially seeing as the average age in the UK for involuntarily viewing explicit imagery is 11 and half of children have seen pornography by age 13. It’s essential that young people are given spaces which can provide them with better, safer information.

We're part of the Sex Education Forum, a group of partners working together to achieve quality RSHE. We used their curriculum building tool to ensure our content is age appropriate, as well as answering the questions young people have. Check out their tool here, and understand what young people want to be learning, at what age.

The UK government mandates Relationship Education at primary school age, building on this through Relationships and Sex Education at secondary school age. Our content follows this guidance.