"We live in a complex and a challenging world. If things don't go a young person's way, if they're faced with challenges, how do we teach them to be resilient, to be able to deal with that in terms of sexual orientation."
"What is it to be attracted to another person? What does that mean for me? What does that mean for you? And it's doing that in an age appropriate way."
"So the focus on consent - it's not about consent and sex, it's about a young person understanding what it is to say yes or to say no, to have their own opinion, to be able to change their own opinion."
The new primary curriculum introduces a Wellbeing subject and doubles time for PE and SPHE. Children in 5th and 6th class will learn about homosexuality and bisexuality and begin to understand sexual orientation as attraction to someone of a different gender, the same gender or more than one gender. The curriculum was formulated following eight years of consultations with teachers and parents and input from 4,000 primary pupils. Materials are designed to be age-appropriate and emphasize teaching resilience to help young people cope with challenges. Consent education will focus on understanding how to say yes or no and on changing one’s opinion, with objectives aimed at fostering open-minded young people.
Read at Irish Independent
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