Welcome to BigTalk Education
Our vision is to ensure as many children and young people as possible, receive high quality relationship and sex education, to keep them safe, healthy and happy.
Whether you are a parent, school staff or education professional we want to help you ensure that your children have the best possible age appropriate relationship and sex education.
Please take a look around, we have a dedicated parents section which will give you information on what to expect if we are visiting your child’s school, as well as tips and advice on how to talk to your children about their bodies, relationships and sex.
For educators and professionals working with young people take a look at our courses, in school programmes and the resources in our shop.
We look forward to seeing many of you soon in schools and on our regular courses.
Lynnette Smith – Founder of BigTalk Education
Lynnette Smith
Founder & Managing Director
Lynnette founded BigTalk Education in 2005, and is a qualified teacher, trainer and Sex & Relationship Education specialist.
For more information on Lynnette’s background, consulting work and media appearences please click the link below.
Looking for information and advice for parents?
What is age appropriate for children to be told about sex and relationships?
Find out about our award winning Growing Up Safe programme
Find out about our Lessons for Life secondary school programmes
View our award winning resources available for purchase by schools and parents
Meet our dedicated team of relationship and sex education facilitators
Feedback from school staff on BigTalk Education's Growing Up Safe relationship and sex education programme
"This is our second year with the programme and we wanted to roll this out across the whole school. The sessions were thoroughly informative dealing with issues sensitively but openly. The programme covered a lot of ground effectively. Our children are now confident, knowledgeable and will hopeful grow to be respectful adults once again, a great job. Thank you for spending the day with us."
“Really informative session for Year 3, delivered in a nice age appropriate way. Reinforced e-safety messages that we teach in school.”
"The materials used are at an informative level, without being inappropriate. The language used by the team was at the children's' level so they were able to understand. The children were put at ease, to answer and ask questions. The section on reproduction was very well discussed and paced, to inform the children about sexual relationships, as too were the puberty and period sections. Very good tutors!"
Our recent school visits
Secondary RSE Case Study
Confidence in CSE topic area Before lesson : 70% After Lesson : 100%An Introduction to the Programme In 2016 Barnardo’s conducted a survey of over 1,000 young people aged between 11-15 years old, of these 74% said that all children would be safer if they had sex...
Bowmandale Primary School
Having worked with Bowmandale Primary School since 2014 it is always nice to return and see some familiar faces. During our visit we witnessed fabulous behaviour from the pupils, we noticed good retention and were delighted with the support we received from the staff,...
Lincoln Gardens Primary School
It was our fourth year visiting Lincoln Gardens, so great to see high levels of confidence from staff and parents. Due to the continued support from the staff and parents we were pleased to lead two parent sessions, both with excellent representation from across the...
