Biology teacher Anne Mason realises the significance of the badge, and tells her class about her own experiences.

Monthly Film Bulletin said "Silly, sordid, and splendidly ludicrous cautionary tale, set in a school which appears to teach only biology (diagrams of the human body) and art (copying from nude statuary).

"[4] Variety said "This probe into juvenile delinquency is clearly inspired by a case reported some time ago of a school where some of the girl pupils wore yellow gollywogs as a sign that they'd surrendered their virginity.

Miss Whiteley, as the goodtime girl, and Georgina Patterson, as her innocent friend, are convincing though both lack experience."

In his essay The Yellow Teddybears: Exploitation as Education,[5] Adrian Smith wrote: "The script is generally sympathetic in tone to the viewpoint of the schoolgirls, and condemns the outdated attitudes of parents and authority figures, the latter represented by the school governors.