This lesson goes beyond the teaching requirements of the statutory guidance however the DfE recommends that:

“all Primary schools should have a sex education programme tailored to the age and the physical and emotional maturity of the pupil. It should ensure both boys and girls are prepared for the changes that adolescence brings and – drawing on knowledge of the human life cycle set out in the National Curriculum for Science – how a baby is conceived and born” (point 67 page 23).

Note: each school can decide its approach to this and that parents would have the right to withdraw their children from this lesson.