Learning activities
Activities
Identifying feelings
Students begin to identify and describe emotions and that people can have different feelings and responses to different situations.
My achievements and strengths
Students explore things they are good at and identify how this relates to their enjoyment of the activity. Students discuss their feelings relating to achievement and success.
Different bodies
Students explore the physical features of people and identify similarities and differences between them.
Public vs private body parts
Students develop their understanding of the differences between public and private body parts.
My body inside and out
Tips for making friends
Coping strategies
Identifying personal strengths
My milestones - birth to now
Appreciating friendships
Families may change
Our own firsts: Personal achievements
We are all different
Good playing skills
Students discuss and practise strategies for making new friends and including others in activities and games through practising good playing skills. Feelings such as anxiety and nervousness, and strategies such as resilience and persistence, are discussed.
Reading emotions in others
Managing family change
Students discuss the changes that take place in families and identify independent activities that they can do to help and cope with these changes.
My life from birth to now
Resilience
Dealing with disagreements
How to help someone being bullied
Understanding discrimination
Managing emotions
Responding to challenging situations
Self-protecting against bullying
Strategies to manage change
Messages about body image
Building respectful relationships
Online vs face-to-face communication
Reproductive systems
Students develop an understanding of the parts and functions of the reproductive systems.
Changes in relationships
Understanding influences on behaviour
Safety first
Body changes during puberty
Taking care of your body during puberty
Puberty - Managing change and transition
Puberty kits
Reproductive systems revision
Students revise their understanding of the parts and functions of the reproductive system.
Peer influence
Analysing health related websites and apps
Qualities of respectful relationships
Issues with online communication
Puberty part 1
Students brainstorm feelings associated with puberty, explore the myths & facts of puberty using the Laugh and learn video as a stimulus and create an illustration of a myth and associated fact.
Puberty part 2
Students explores the physical, social & emotional changes associated with puberty using the Laugh and learn video as a stimulus and then create a mindmap of positive coping strategies.
HPV vaccine
Videos and short activities to use with students before they receive their HPV vaccine at school.
Pregnancy and birth
What's OK and what's not OK
Choices and consequences
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Students explore gender stereotypes, respectful relationship qualities and non-consensual image sharing in this 8 sequential session program.
Body image
Students analyse how beauty is represented in the media through magazines and the impact this and the perceptions of others have on personal identities.
Ready vs not ready (for sexual activity)
Students discuss, illustrate and compare their views and perspectives on being ready for sexual activity.
Respectful relationships online
Students develop an understanding of cyberbullying and the implications of sharing information online.
Sexting
Students explore the influence technology has on their ability to make healthy and safe choices in relation to sexuality and risk taking.
Gender expectations
Students examine how diversity and gender is often represented in the media and the impact this has on personal identities.
Respectful vs disrespectful relationships
Power to manage relationships
Students explore effective strategies such as refusal skills, communicating choices, expressing opinions and initiating contingency plans when dealing with challenging relationships.
Health campaigns - sexual health
Influence of the media
Sexually transmissible infections
Sexual risk taking
Sexting: To send or not to send
Students use a video and a decision mapping process to explore situations where people might be asked to send a sext. Emotional, social, ethical and legal consequences of sending or not sending a sext are unpacked.
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Porn: The who, what, where, when, how, why and why not
Students use a video and the graffiti wall strategy to develop an understanding of what porn is, how people come across porn, why people access porn and its possible harms. Strategies for dealing with unwanted exposure to porn are also discussed.
Keeping safe in sexual situations
Students explore legal, physical, social & emotional safety & respectful relationships using placemat strategy and a video stimulus.
Safer sex - condoms
Students use a video stimulus, look at condom use stats, brainstorm what safer sex is, reasons why people use/don't use condoms and the life skills required for condom negotiation & use.
Assessment task: Safer sex quiz questions
Students research and develop quiz questions about safer sex (websites provided). Teacher combines student's quiz questions to create a class quiz assessment.
Blood-borne virus safety
Students complete a T/F pre-quiz on BBVs; use a video stimulus and websites (provided) to research BBV transmission/prevention. Findings reported via a choice of radio advert/instagram post/whole class display.
Sexual consent and the law
Students analyse sexual consent and the law through real life scenarios.