Sexuality education is about respectful interactions, norms and values, wishes and boundaries. But it is also about sexuality. Is that really necessary in primary education? Yes. Children's sexual development begins at birth. From a young age, children discover their own bodies, develop their sexual identities, and discover differences between boys and girls. They form relationships and friendships, fall in love, and enter puberty. Sexuality is, especially in the early years of primary school, a subject that children have questions about and one that is not yet surrounded by shame at a young age.
The role of the primary school
By making these kinds of subjects open for discussion, you can guide children in their sexual development. Parents have the most important role in this, but not all parents do so, find it difficult, or start too late.
For example, they may wait until puberty, but by then children have already formed ideas of their own and are less open to information from adults. By starting with relationship and sexuality education at a young age, students become familiar with these subjects. You can also teach children norms and values very effectively at that age. It is not without reason that all schools, including primary schools, are required to provide lessons on sexuality and sexual diversity.