Students develop an understanding that having friends makes us feel happy and that personal and social skills are required to build and maintain friendships.

Students consider the ways that a family may change and identify ways to cope with changes.

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.

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

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.

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.

Students develop strategies to address discrimination using game-play and scenarios to explore exclusion, prejudice, and discrimination of gender and healthy relationships.

Students learn to recognise problems in relationships and develop practical solutions to prevent or manage conflict.

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

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

Students discuss the similarities and differences between online and face-to-face communication, and research and explore protective strategies to ensure they communicate safely using technology.

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

Students explore how family, peers and the media influence how individuals interact in given situation.

Students investigate the possible influence that peers have on making decisions.

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.

Students develop their understanding of socially acceptable behaviours and being respectful to others and having respect for themselves by thinking through what's OK and what's not OK in a relationship.

Students discuss, illustrate and compare their views and perspectives on being ready for sexual activity.

Students develop an understanding of healthy relationships using fun interactive games, and identify the characteristics of positive and negative relationships.

Students explore effective strategies such as refusal skills, communicating choices, expressing opinions and initiating contingency plans when dealing with challenging relationships.

Students develop an understanding of the term 'safer sex' and the importance of using condoms to prevent STIs and pregnancies.