Activities

1. Likes and strengths

Pre-primary
Communication skills
Students explore activities in each of Gardiner's Intelligences to determine what they enjoy and what their strengths are.

2. Identifying feelings

Pre-primary
Communication skills
Relationships
Students identify and describe emotions and develop an understanding that people can have different feelings and responses to different situations.

3. Being a good friend

Pre-primary
Communication skills
Relationships
Students develop an understanding that social skills are required to build and maintain friendships.

2. My strengths can change over time

Year 1
Communication skills
Students explore things they are good at, identify these as their strengths, and explore how these can change over time.

Appreciating friendships

Year 1
Communication skills
Relationships
Students distinguish between friendly and unfriendly behaviour and identify their own ‘getting on with others’ strengths and limitations. Students practise using friendly behaviour with others by expressing giving and receiving compliments.

3. Feelings, body signals and positive coping strategies

Year 1
Communication skills
Staying safe
Students explore different emotions, the signals their bodies give for each emotion, and positive coping strategies for different scenarios.

Our own firsts: Personal achievements

Year 2
Communication skills
Growing bodies
Students explore the feelings associated with being able to do something by themselves for the first time and reflect on how personal achievements can influence a person’s identity.

Good playing skills

Year 2
Communication skills
Relationships

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

Year 2
Communication skills
Relationships
Students identify external body cues and verbal cues that people demonstrate when they are feeling a range of emotions. They identify how to ‘look’ and ‘listen’ to read these emotions in others and practise reading emotions in others in role-play situations.

Managing family change

Year 2
Communication skills
Relationships
Values, rights, culture

Students discuss the changes that take place in families and identify independent activities that they can do to help and cope with these changes.

Consent for touch (hugs)

Year 2
Communication skills
Staying safe
Students use a video and T chart for exploring different ways to ask for and give consent for touch (e.g. hugs).

We are all different

Year 2
Communication skills
Values, rights, culture
Students explore the concepts of males and females by looking at the physical, emotional and social similarities and differences.

Dealing with disagreements

Year 3
Communication skills
Relationships
Students learn to recognise problems in relationships and develop practical solutions to prevent or manage conflict.

How to help someone being bullied

Year 3
Communication skills
Relationships
Students develop an understanding of what to do in situations where others are being bullied, that shows empathy and respects the rights of others.

Resilience

Year 3
Communication skills
Students examine how success, challenge and failure strengthen their own personal identity.

Consent - sharing photos

Year 3
Communication skills
Staying safe
Students use a scenario and emotion statutes to explore consent for photos to be shared online and actions they can take if someone has shared photos without consent.

Strategies to manage change

Year 4
Communication skills
Growing bodies
Relationships
Students explore the physical, social and emotional changes that occur throughout a person’s life.

Building respectful relationships

Year 4
Communication skills
Relationships
Students identify and explore the relationship between and social skills. They practise cooperating and collaborating with peers using specific social skills relating to respect, empathy and valuing differences.

Managing emotions

Year 4
Communication skills
Relationships
Students explore the implications of intense emotions on self and others and develop personal strategies to cope with the intense emotions that can result from adverse situations and the demands of others.

Responding to challenging situations

Year 4
Communication skills
Relationships
Students identify and apply resilience skills required to respond positively to challenges and failure such as ways to calm the body; using self-talk and optimistic thinking and help-seeking behaviours.

Self-protecting against bullying

Year 4
Communication skills
Relationships
Staying safe
Students develop a repertoire of strategies to use to protect themselves from bullying. They also examine ways to help someone else that may be being bullied.

Changes in relationships

Year 5
Communication skills
Relationships
Students discuss the changes that take place in relationships over time and identify feelings and strategies to help and cope with these changes.

Safety first

Year 5
Communication skills
Staying safe
Students investigate strategies that promote safe practices online.

Analysing health related websites and apps

Year 6
Communication skills
Growing bodies
Students investigate ways to access community resources to seek help about health, safety and wellbeing. They then determine criteria for the credibility of a website and evaluate a range of websites and apps.

Puberty - Managing change and transition

Year 6
Communication skills
Growing bodies
Relationships
Students develop an understanding that the changes that occur during puberty affect young people physically, socially and emotionally and that the changes can affect boys and girls differently.

Peer influence

Year 6
Communication skills
Relationships
Values, rights, culture
Students investigate the possible influence that peers have on making decisions.

Qualities of respectful relationships

Year 7
Communication skills
Relationships
Students identify the qualities of a respectful relationship, problem solve in a range of bullying, harassment and stressful situations and work towards enhancing an existing relationship through the development of an action plan.

Body image

Year 9
Communication skills
Growing bodies
Understanding gender
Values, rights, culture

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)

Year 9
Communication skills
Relationships
Sexuality and sexual behaviour

Students discuss, consider and compare different views and perspectives on being ready for sexual activity.

Respectful relationships online

Year 9
Communication skills
Relationships
Staying safe

Students develop an understanding of cyberbullying and the implications of sharing information online.

Choices and consequences

Year 9
Communication skills
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Staying safe
Students watch Kaiyai Girl, an interactive DVD about an Aboriginal Girl, Missy, who is faced with many choices and consequences regarding alcohol and other drugs and sexual health.

Health campaigns - sexual health

Year 10
Communication skills
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Students explore the purpose of health campaigns and identify the components of a successful campaign. In groups, they develop their own campaign with a sexual health theme.

Influence of the media

Year 10
Communication skills
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Values, rights, culture
Students explore the impact of sexualised imagery on young people’s sexual identities and sexual behaviours through the use of music clips and newspaper articles.

Sexting: To send or not to send

Year 10
Year 8
Year 9
Communication skills
Relationships
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Staying safe

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.

Porn: The who, what, where, when, how, why and why not

Year 10
Year 9
Communication skills
Relationships
Sexuality and sexual behaviour

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. 

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Year 10
Year 9
Communication skills
Relationships
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Understanding gender
Students explore gender stereotypes, respectful relationship qualities, sex and consent, sexual assault, sexual decision making.

Sexual consent and the law

Year 10
Year 9
Communication skills
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Staying safe

Students analyse sexual consent and the law through real life scenarios.