Comprehensive Sexuality Education lesson plans now available online
The pilot is being conducted in areas that have recorded high HIV infection rates and a prevalence of sexual abuse.
The Department of Basic Education has released, on its website, the scripted lesson plans which are being used in the pilot phase of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in selected schools.
The CSE has been part of the curriculum since the year 2000. The only change is that in 2015 the department developed scripted lesson plans (SLPs) which are currently being tested in five provinces in order to strengthen the teaching of CSE in schools.
Scripted lesson plans are learner and teacher support materials that are designed to aid teachers and learners to address these important topics in a systematic manner.
The core aim of the CSE and its SLPs is to ensure that learners are helped to build an understanding of concepts, content, values and attitudes related to sexuality, sexual behavior change as well as leading safe and healthy lives.
THIS IS WHAT SOME SOCIAL MEDIA USERS HAD TO SAY:
Is everyone against the Comprehensive Sexuality Education curriculum because it talks about Sex or is everyone against it because it starts at a young age? 🤔 #PowerBreakfast
— Minister of Menstruation🩸 (@Candice_Chirwa) November 14, 2019
Im a South African teacher who is 100 % behind comprehensive sexuality education! https://t.co/Ksn4WaWnCM
— Kalakuta Queen. (@SaucySeipats_) November 14, 2019
The 8yo think she’s going to embarrass me, asking about sex.
I catch her side-eyeing her bro. Haha. Jokes on her. Let’s gooooo! #sexed pic.twitter.com/3LdxOmqXUo— Threads: melzinbala (@MelBala) November 14, 2019
YOU 👏🏽 CAN'T 👏🏽 SHOUT 👏🏽 ABOUT 👏🏽 GBV 👏🏽 AND 👏🏽 THINK 👏🏽 SEX 👏🏽 EDUCATION 👏🏽 ISN'T 👏🏽 PART 👏🏽 OF 👏🏽 THAT 👏🏽 SAME 👏🏽 CONVERSATION! 👏🏽 PERIODTTT 👏🏽
— aunty kak maniere, vuil plak en dom krag (@em_aych) November 14, 2019
The sex education curriculum is threatening to divide the country 😗😗.
In my view, a grade 4 won't know what being molested is , if they aren't taught about it 🤔. And don't come at me telling me parents will teach that in the home 😒.I'm all for curriculum
— remo (@mokhele123) November 14, 2019
The department said it was extremely concerned that there seems to be lower sexual debut and increasing risky sexual behaviour among adolescents and HIV prevention knowledge has declined among learners.
It said early sexual debut leads to mental health issues such as depression, vulnerability to violence and poor educational outcomes.
“Research findings indicate high birth rates among adolescents and teenagers; in addition, more than a third of girls and boys (35.4%) experience sexual violence before the age of 17.
“This has necessitated the great need for the department to provide age appropriate child abuse prevention education that builds resilience, confidence and assertion amongst young people, who often do not know when they are being violated by sexual predators,” said the department on Wednesday.
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The department said it remains open to further consultation and engagement on this matter.
