If you’ve recently binged-watched the first two series of Netflix’s Sex Education and eagerly awaiting season three, the good news is that it is COMING, you just need to be a bit more patient. According to the streaming giant, production began in September 2020 – five months later than planned – which saw the cast and crew set up a filming bubble in Wales. And we’re set to see season 3 drop later this year.

Here’s why we are so obsessed with TV show; there’s loads of sex (of course, so many types), budding teenage romances and Gillian Anderson as the smokin' sex therapist at her son’s school. Plus, the locations are all-kinds of dreamy.

Speaking of which, it’s hard not to soak up some of those epic backdrops of rolling hills in the series (anywhere that isn’t our own four walls right now feels inspiring.) Most of the episodes were filmed around the picturesque South Wales. For the first season of Sex Education, filming took place in the Wye Valley in England and at Welsh hotspots including Llandogo, Tintern, and Penarth. Season two saw a return to most of those places with a few new additions.

With that in mind we’ve pulled together some of those epic real-life locations from Sex Education that you’re bound to have spotted throughout series one and two.

Moordale School

Nope, the school in Sex Education looks nothing like our school either. In real life, Moordale School isn’t actually a school, it was a campus for 4,500 students who attended the University of South Wales in Caerleon but closed in 2016. The early 20th-century building, with its focal clock tower, was the perfect location for the American high school vibe that the show’s creators were going for.

The school hall

Not all the scenes at Moordale School were filmed at the disused USW. In fact, the school gym and hall scenes used in the assemblies and school discos were all filmed at The Paget Rooms in Penarth. The location is a Grade II-listed theatre built in the early 20th-century which in real life, serves at the town’s public hall hosting everything from local group meetings to concerts and weddings