Health and Physical Education / Year 9 and 10 / Personal, social and community health / Interacting with others

Curriculum content descriptions

examine how strategies, such as communicating choices, seeking, giving and denying consent, and expressing opinions and needs can support the development of respectful relationships, including sexual relationships (AC9HP10P07)

Elaborations
  • describing strategies that enhance the safety and wellbeing of sexual partners, such as communicating feelings of each party, respecting boundaries and choices, gaining affirmative consent, assertive communication and respecting individuals’ rights
  • investigating the legal requirements for their state or territory in relation to seeking, giving, refusing and accepting the refusal of consent, and considering how these laws relate to relationships with friends, colleagues, strangers and intimate partners, in both online and offline interactions
  • reflecting on the potential impact of their own behaviour on others and the importance of taking responsibility for their own actions to ensure they do no harm to others
  • refining strategies to communicate clearly and respectfully their choices, needs and opinions in a range of relationship scenarios, such as in peer group, family or work situations
General capabilities
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Respect,  Dating,  Assertiveness

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Resolving conflicts

Through this resource, students explore some effective conflict resolution strategies, including identifying conflict triggers, understanding the role of emotions in conflicts, and strategies to reduce conflicts.

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Growing and developing healthy relationships: Activities

Find a range of lesson plans for topics such as managing relationships, puberty, resilience, body image, bullying, and peer pressure across a range of year levels.

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Keeping safe in sexual situations

Students explore legal, physical, social and emotional safety in the context of respectful relationships, using a placemat strategy and the 'Laugh and learn' video as a stimulus. The lesson explores the importance of communicating with a partner about readiness for sex, consent and contraception.

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Sexual consent and the law

Students analyse sexual consent and the law through real life scenarios. Students explore strategies in regards to communicating choices, seeking, giving and denying consent, and expressing opinions and needs that can support the development of respectful relationships, including sexual relationships, Note that the lesson ...

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RELATE: Respectful relationships program - Stage 3

This resource is a one term Respectful Relationships program consisting of 8 scaffolded sessions covering topics such as Gender stereotypes and expectations, Respectful relationship qualities, Non-consensual image sharing, Sexual assault, Consent, Disrespectful and unethical behaviours, Decision making frameworks, and Opinion ...

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Ready vs not ready (for sexual activity)

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

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Tagged

The award-winning short film Tagged is supported by teaching resources that encourage young people to reflect on the real life consequences of cyberbullying, sharing intimate images, and a negative digital reputation.

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Be Deadly Online

In this resource, students explore how their digital footprint or reputation builds up over time, and how cyberbullying, sending nudes and sexting can impact themselves, their family and their community. They will discuss the concept of respect in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and how this can ...

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Consent & respectful relationships

In this lesson, students learn that consent can take many forms and that there are different ways to ask for and give consent to support respectful relationships. Short videos and discussion questions scaffold the resource.

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Young Deadly Free: How to have healthy relationships

This resource includes the This is US series of short videos made to explore challenges and issues in the lives of teenage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Topics include relationships, underage drinking, managing friendships and trouble with the law. An accompanying Teacher Resource includes lesson plans ...

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Respectful Relationships: Teaching and Learning

Find comprehensive resources organised by stages of schooling including a scope and sequence, teaching and learning activities and links to resources. The activities provide explicit opportunities for developmentally appropriate learning about consent education, gender stereotypes and roles, keeping safe, respectful relationships ...

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Child protection units and resources

Find units of work on topics such as Keeping myself safe, My right to be safe, Safe and unsafe relationships, Online/Offline relationships, and Using my personal power positively on this webpage. The resource includes advice about teaching respectful relationships effectively and examples of information appropriate for ...

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More Than This

This learning resource has been developed to support the video series More Than This which is a teen drama that explores the wide range of emotions and challenges that secondary school students face as they explore identity and belonging, gender identity and sexuality, relationships, family and academic pressures and taking ...

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Brontide: Unit of work

This unit of work has been written to support the novel Brontide which is a coming of age story about four teenage boys. This unit provides practical teaching ideas and an assessment task.

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How to teach digital citizenship and online safety - Scope and sequence Australian curriculum

This resource provides links to lessons and activities at each level of schooling from Foundation to Year 10 in the area of online safety.