1. I can help make decisions. I can choose.
Year 4
I can help make decisions.
I can choose.

2. WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO LEARN ABOUT OURSELVES?
God made each of us
We were all made in God’s image
Although we are all different, God loves each of us more than we can understand
God wants us to understand the gift of life given to us
God wants us to understand and love
the body as a gift

3. WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT We are all different heights
Our height continues to change as we grow

4. We are all different weights…
This doesn’t matter to God
God still loves us!

5. We look different…
What we look like doesn’t matter to God

6. We can all do different things…
God loves us no matter what we can do

7. Some of us are stronger than others…
God still loves us the same!

8. WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT
When the world was created, God put two types of people on the earth
BOYS (MALES)
GIRLS (FEMALES)
This is called our GENDER (or our SEX)
Eg. The sex of the baby is male or female

9. GOD LOVES BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS EQUALLY

10. HOW DO GIRLS’ BODIES LOOK DIFFERENT FROM BOYS’ BODIES
What is different?

11. WORDS WE SHOULD KNOW, WORDS WE SHOULD USE…
It is important to call things by their real name
Breasts
Penis/Testicles
Vagina
Bottom (everybody’s got one!)

12. OUR BODIES ARE OUR GIFTS FROM GOD…
Our bodies are our own
We should love and look after our bodies by eating good food, exercising and getting a good night’s sleep, getting hugs and breathing

13. WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH OUR BODIES…
Because our bodies are our gift given to us from God, we can choose who can touch them
No one has the right to touch us in places we don’t allow them
Our bodies are a gift, others should respect our gift!

14. WE ARE GROWING UP… We are getting taller We are getting stronger
We are becoming more responsible for ourselves
God’s plan for us is to grow up
BIRTH  TODDLER  CHILD 
ADOLESCENT  ADULT

15. BECOMING ALIVE God is very clever in the way we were created
All the growing that we need to survive is done in the 9 months in our mother’s tummy
Words we need to know:
Sperm
Egg
Womb (Uterus)
Umbilical Cord
Breast Fed/Bottle Fed

16. MEANINGS OF THESE WORDS
SPERM: the sex cell that comes from the male
EGG: the sex cell that comes from the female
EGG + SPERM = NEW LIFE
WOMB (UTERUS): inside the mother there is a cavity where the baby grow. It expands as the baby gets bigger.

17. MORE WORDS…
UMBILICAL CORD: the special cord that attaches the baby to its mother. Food and nutrients necessary to survive inside the womb travel through this cord.
The baby’s wastes
are also delivered
back to the mum for
her to get rid of.

18. BIGGER WORDS…
PLACENTA: a fleshy disc which attaches to the mothers uterus. The umbilical cord comes out of here, and nutrients are obtained from here.
AMNIOTIC SAC: clear fluid is contained within a sac to cushion the baby as it grows.
FOETUS: the name we give
to the developing baby.
CONCEPTION: when the
sperm meets the egg and
new life begins.

19. BREAST FED/BOTTLE FED
Either way is fine.

20. FAMILY STRUCTURES…
Like us, families come in all different shapes and sizes
Some have a mum and dad
Some have step mums and dads
Some have single parents
Some people are adopted,
Some people are fostered
Either way, God loves us all

21. REMEMBER… God loves you because you are special
Boys and girls are different but God loves them the same
We should use the correct names for our body parts
No one has the right to touch our body if we don’t let them
God loves us no matter what our family structure