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• Teaching Notes
  • Relationships and sexuality education
  • Inclusivity and social justice
  • Disclosure
  • Establishing the ground rules
  • Curriculum framework
  • Discrimination
  • Planning for relationships (sexuality) education
  • Teaching and learning strategies
  • Health promoting schools framework
  • References
  • Community health nurses in schools
  • Dealing with controversial issues
  • Resilience and life skills
    • Resilience and life skills
• Background Info
  • Adolescent relationships
  • HIV & AIDS
  • Body art
  • Abstinence, safer sex and contraception
  • Menstrual cycle
  • Needles and syringes
  • Puberty
  • Sex and the law
  • Teaching boys
  • Gender and power
  • Sexuality and gender diversity
    • Gender diversity
    • Sexual orientation
  • Reproduction and anatomy
    • Male reproductive and sexual anatomy
    • Female reproductive and sexual anatomy
    • Pregnancy
  • Alcohol, other drugs and sex
  • Students with special educational needs
  • Technology/cyber safety
  • Media and body image
  • Sexually transmitted infections (STI) and blood-borne viruses (BBV)
  • Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD)
  • Abusive relationships
  • At risk youth
    • At risk youth
  • Aboriginal adolescents
• Activities
  • Early childhood (K-3)
    • Changes in the family when a baby arrives
    • Conflict and resolution
    • Feeling safe with friends
    • Males and females
    • Emotional and physical needs of a baby
    • Needles and blood spills
    • Friends and friendship
    • Families change
    • Different families
    • Finding and seeking help
    • Feelings about feelings
    • Similar or different
    • GDHR Recommended Activities/Year Level
  • Middle childhood (4-7)
    • Avoiding blood-borne viruses (BBV)
    • Birth
    • Changes at puberty
    • Conception, pregnancy and contraception
    • Menstruation
    • Peer influences: STI and BBV
    • Puberty kit
    • What is a blood-borne virus?
    • Love and affection
    • Peer influence
    • Talking about growing up
    • Avoiding and reducing risks of blood-borne viruses (BBV)
    • Social and emotional changes
    • Expressing affection
    • Peer influences: STI and BBV
    • GDHR Recommended Activities/Year Level
    • The journey of the sperm and the ovum
  • Early adolescence (8-10)
    • Condoms
    • Dating 101
    • Finding reliable information
    • Forms of contraception
    • Reproduction
    • Relationships
    • Sexual risk taking
    • Sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne virus risks.
    • Sexual activity: Avoiding and reducing the risks
    • Planning sexual activity
    • Gender and power: Expectations and assumptions
    • Reliable sources of contraceptive information
    • Coercion or consent - what’s the difference?
    • Sexual health education student needs assessment survey
  • Late Adolescence (11-12)
  • Download all activities
• Resources
  • Videos
    • Condom Videos, Female
    • Condom Videos, Male
    • Using Dental Dams
    • Kaiyai Girl interactive DVD
    • Everything a girl should know about the HPV vaccine
  • Illustrations
    • Anatomy, Junior Female, Black & White
    • Anatomy, Junior Female, Coloured
    • Anatomy, Junior Male, Black & White
    • Anatomy, Junior Male, Coloured
    • Anatomy, Senior Female, Black & White
    • Anatomy, Senior Female, Coloured
    • Anatomy, Senior Male, Black & White
    • Anatomy, Senior Male, Coloured
    • Body Shapes
    • Circumcision
    • Development
    • Erections
    • Genetics
    • Hot Water Bottles
    • Menstrual Cycle
    • Microbiology
    • Personal Hygiene
    • Pregnancy
    • Pregnancy Teaching Sheets
    • Sexuality Wheel
    • Kaiyai Girl DVD
  • Agencies in WA
    • FPWA Sexual Health Services (FPWA)
    • WA AIDS Council (WAAC)
    • People 1st Programme (FPWA)
    • SECCA - Sexuality Education Counselling & Consultancy Agency
    • SARC- Sexual Assault Resource Centre
    • Child and Adolescent Community Health (CACHS)
    • Dr Yes (AMA WA)
    • Freedom Centre (WAAC)
  • Reports
    • Standards for Curriculum-Based Reproductive Health and HIV Education Programs
    • Evidence-Based Interventions for Youth
    • Increasing the Resilience of Young People at Risk: A Literature Review
    • Sexuality Education: The why, who and what of relationship education in WA schools
    • Parents and Sex Education Parents’ attitudes to sexual health education in WA schools
    • Secondary Students and Sexual Health 2008: Results of the 4th National Survey of Australian Secondary Students, HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health
    • Parents and sex education in Western Australia A consultation with parents on educating their children about sexual health at home and school
    • HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia
    • A WHO Report on Building School Partnership for Health, Education Achievements and Development (2007)
    • Achieving health promoting schools: Guidelines for promoting health in schools
    • A report on teachers’ use of the South Australian Relationships and Sexual Health Curriculum
  • Resources for parents/caregivers
  • Guidelines
  • 1.1 Similar or different
  • 1.2 Emotional and physical needs of a baby
  • 1.3 Changes in the family
  • 1.4 Needles and blood spills
  • 1.5 Friends and friendship
  • 1.6 Feelings about feelings
  • 1.7 Families change
  • 1.8 Different families
  • 1.9 Finding help
  • 1.10 Males and females
  • 1.11 Feeling safe
  • 1.12 Conflict and resolution
  • 2.1 Changes at puberty
  • 2.2 Love and affection
  • 2.3 What is a blood-borne virus?
  • 2.4 Peer Influence
  • 2.5 Menstruation
  • 2.6 Avoiding blood-borne viruses
  • 2.7 Talking about growing up
  • 2.8 Birth
  • 2.9 Avoiding and reducing risks
  • 2.10 Social and emotional changes
  • 2.11 Expressing affection
  • 2.12 Conception, pregnancy and contraception
  • 2.13 Peer influences, STI & BBV
  • 2.14 Puberty kit
  • 2.15 The Journey of the sperm and the ovum
  • 3.1 Relationships/Sexual health education student needs assessment
  • 3.2 Finding reliable information
  • 3.3 Sexual activity: Avoiding and reducing the risks
  • 3.4 Planning sexual activity
  • 3.5 Reproduction
  • 3.6 Gender and power: Expectations and assumptions
  • 3.7 Sexual risk taking
  • 3.8 Sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne virus risk
  • 3.9 Forms of contraception
  • 3.10 Reliable sources of contraceptive information
  • 3.11 Condoms
  • 3.12 Relationships
  • 3.13 Dating 101
  • 3.14 Coercion or consent - What’s the difference?
  • Middle Childhood Complete Package
  • Early Adolescence Complete Package
  • Early Childhood Complete Package
  • Phase 1 - 2002 Resource
  • Phase 2 - 2002 resource
  • Phase 3 - 2002 resource
  • Sample letter to parents/caregivers (Secondary school)
  • Sample letter to parents/caregivers (Primary school)
  • Quizzes
    • STI
• Questions
  • Public school teachers
    • Can condoms be given out to high school students?
    • Does the Department of Education have relationships (sexuality) education guidelines?
    • Are schools required to teach relationships/sexuality education?
    • Does the Department of Education have a guest speaker policy?
    • Must teachers be trained to teach sexuality education?
    • Are teachers obligated to inform parents about the provision of relationships/sexual health education?
    • What should teachers do if they receive questions from parents?
    • What do students do if parents opt them out of sexuality education?
    • What if a parent wants to observe a class?
    • What if a student asks a question that is not relevant to the curriculum being taught?
    • What if a student discloses abuse?
  • Questions students ask
    • Why is it important to never touch another person’s blood?
    • Why do we grow pubic hair?
    • Do mosquitoes transmit HIV?
    • Do tampons take away someone’s virginity?
    • Can tampons break a hymen?
    • What kinds of objects may contain blood or blood related products?
    • What should I do if a trusted adult told me it was okay to touch blood from another person?
    • What can you do to encourage others to not touch blood or objects that may contain blood?
    • Why is it important to be immunised for diseases that are carried by blood?
    • Which blood-borne diseases have no vaccines?
    • Why do our body parts change as we grow?
    • How do we grow?
    • Why do we start to get body odour?
    • Why do girls get periods?
    • What are periods?
    • Why do boys grow beards and moustaches?
    • Why do boys’ and girls’ voices change as they get older?
    • Why do we get pimples?
    • When will we stop growing?
    • What other types of hepatitis are there?
  • Ask a question to be answered by a health professional
  • Answering student questions
  • Questions about teaching for AISWA teachers
• Glossary
• Acknowledgements/Credits
• Disclaimer
• Quality Assurance Plan
• PD
  • General Professional Development
    • Australian PD
  • Teaching Sexuality Education Online Professional Learning Course
• Shop
  • Suppliers
    • BBV Publication Catalogue
    • WA Health Resource Order form
    • Reproduction
    • Puberty
    • Relationships
    • Child Protection
    • Year 8+
    • Sexual Diversity
    • FPWA
    • Body Image
    • Aboriginal
• girl and boy with graphity wall
• Protective Behaviours
• Contraception Update - silicone diaphragms are now available in Australia
• Happy 1st Birthday GDHR!
• New reproductive kits available from FPWA
• Teaching sexuality education online professional development for public school teachers in WA
• New look for the Get the Facts Youth Website
• The Draft Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education
• Safe Schools Coalition Victoria
• New on-line course available for teachers in public schools
• Sexual and reproductive health and rights for adolescents – landmark resolution adopted by Commission on Population and Development
• GDHR noted as an example of best practice by the Commissioner for Children and Young People
• FREE Chlamydia Brochures - CALD
• Australian Social Trends – STIs
• Quarry Health Centre for youth under 25
• New CALD resources
• The Talk: A Sexual Health and Ethics DVD Aimed at Parents,Carers and Teenagers.
• Dr YES medical students on their way north
• News on the Australian curriculum - sexual health education
• Age of consent laws fact sheet
• Website with lesson plans for body image, gender stereotypes and media literacy
• Young people, sex and risk in Australia
• WA Senior of the Year 2012 - Kath Mazella for excellence in promoting GYN and Sexual Health awareness
• Students want sex education earlier
• View presentations online - First National sexual and reproductive health conference (November 2012)
• Australian Curriculum - Sexual diversity
• Australians lack fertility knowledge - Monash University study
• Hosting a Party for Teenagers’ booklet
• ‘You’re Not Alone’ booklet, targeted for young LGBTIQQ people.
• Working towards Safer Schools!
• Under 18 Trans young people and their parents
• Youth Summit - Advocating for universal sexual health education
• Position paper on national Comprehensive Relationship and Sexuality Education in Schools
• The Cybersafety Outreach — Professional Development for Educators
• New Peer Educators available to run workshops with your students!
• Register your interest now for your school to participate - 5th National Survey of Australian Secondary Students
• Videos Worth a Look - Cyber Life and Accidental Bully