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Last Updated: 13 December 2022

Sexuality Education: Implementation policies for schools

Schools must strictly follow MOE’s guidelines when implementing Sexuality Education.

Overview

All schools are to provide Sexuality Education for their students as follows:

  • The MOE Sexuality Education programme, comprising the Sexuality Education lessons and Empowered Teens (eTeens) programmes, must be implemented as part of the Character and Citizenship Education curriculum.
  • The Sexuality Education lessons must be adopted by all government schools. Independent and faith-based government-aided schools may adopt their own programmes as long as they are aligned to the MOE Framework for Sexuality Education and lesson objectives.
  • The eTeens programme must be adopted by all secondary schools, junior colleges and Millennia Institute. Independent and faith-based government-aided schools may supplement eTeens with their own programmes.
  • The Sexuality Education lessons and eTeens programmes must only be taught by specially selected and MOE-trained Sexuality Education teachers.
  • If schools engage relevant expertise and community resources to supplement Sexuality Education, they must strictly follow MOE’s guidelines on engaging external providers.
  • If parents wish to opt their children out of Sexuality Education lessons, eTeens or supplementary Sexuality Education programmes, schools must allow them to do so.

Implementation requirements

Implementation requirements apply to the following programmes:

Sexuality Education lessons

The Sexuality Education lessons are for students from Primary 5 to junior colleges and Millennia Institute (MI).

Requirements

The required Sexuality Education lessons curriculum time across the levels are:

Levels Curriculum time
Primary 5 3 hours per year, comprising 3 60-minute lessons each year.
Primary 6 3 hours per year, comprising 3 60-minute lessons each year.
Secondary 1 3 hours per year, comprising 3 60-minute lessons each year.
Secondary 2 3 hours per year, comprising 3 60-minute lessons each year.
Secondary 3 3 hours per year, comprising 3 60-minute lessons each year.
Secondary 4 4 hours per year, comprising 4 60-minute lessons each year.
Secondary 5 1 hour per year, comprising 1 60-minute lesson each year.
Junior colleges/MI Year 1 3 hours per level per year, comprising 3 60-minute lessons each year.
Junior colleges/MI Year 2 2 hours per level per year, comprising 2 60-minute lessons each year.
Empowered Teens (eTeens) programme

The eTeens programme, developed by the Health Promotion Board in collaboration with MOE, is for Secondary 3 students and Year 1 students in junior colleges or Millennia Institute (MI).

Requirements

The mass talk segment of eTeens should be conducted by approved external providers.

The required eTeen curriculum time across the levels are:

Levels Curriculum time
Secondary 3 2 hours, comprising 1 hour of mass talk and 1 hour of classroom-based lesson
JC/MI Year 1 1 hour of mass talk