My oldest daughter is due to start school in September next year and applications for state schools will be due around Christmas. One often hears stories about families moving house in order to get their children into a good state school and I must confess that I used to think these people were mad, but I don’t any more. I am considering moving country.
As I wrote last month, the new sex education (RSE) curriculum has come to Wales where I live and as of September 2022 is compulsory. The leaflet from our local “Church in Wales” school says so in two places on one page: “RSE will be mandatory for all learners from September 2022” and “from September 2022, parents and carers will no longer be entitled to withdraw their child/young person from RSE”. We get the message.
