Health and Physical Education / Year 1 and 2 / Personal, social and community health / Making healthy and safe choices

Curriculum content descriptions

identify and demonstrate protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies they can use to help them and others stay safe (AC9HP2P05)

Elaborations
  • identifying the body’s reaction to a range of situations, including safe and unsafe situations, and comparing the different emotional responses
  • identifying and rehearsing strategies they can use when requiring assistance, such as asking an adult they trust, reading signs and symbols to identify safe places, and solving a problem with friends
  • proposing strategies they can use at school and home that promote healthy use of digital tools
  • recognising photos and locations of safe places and a network of people who can help
  • discussing the importance of seeking help when problems are too big to solve by themselves
  • exploring how characters in texts use protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies to keep themselves and others safe
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Help-seeking behaviour,  Private body parts,  Personal space

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Australia’s Biggest Child Safety Lesson

This resource focuses on the concept of ‘my body, my choice’, and the strategies children can then use when they need to seek, give or deny consent. Within each activity there are explanations and scripts to support teachers to facilitate exploration of the suggested concepts. Some of the activities are quite generic with ...

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Keep it sweet online

These three slide presentations will give young students strategies for dealing with online risks, identifying and reporting cyberbullying, and dealing with unwanted contact.

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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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We are all different

Students explore the physical, emotional and social similarities and differences between males and females.

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Cybersmart Challenge

This resource includes teacher-led activities using animated videos to introduce students to key online safety issues including cyberbullying, protecting personal information and sharing images. There are three modules including videos, which can be used as stand-alone lessons or as a series.

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Hector's World

In this resource students will identify strategies for determining who they should trust with their online personal information and ways to keep their computers safe. They will also learn about the importance of seeking help when they feel unsafe or uneasy online or if they experience cyberbullying. The resource includes ...

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How our class stays safe online

This resource can be used in the classroom to teach students aged 5 to 8 years about safe online behaviour. It includes discussion questions, a poster and guidelines about how to create a tech agreement.

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Swoosh, Glide and Rule Number 5

The Swoosh and Glide education material can be used to teach lower primary students how to make good choices when they are online. Teachers can read the picture book to the class or read along with the video, and then explore the puzzles with students.

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Online safety classroom posters

These posters for lower primary students can be displayed in the classroom and used to start online safety discussions during lessons across key learning areas.

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Mighty Heroes

This resource includes four short animated video chapters and supporting educator notes. Each one features a hero and their online safety superpower. The educator notes are designed to support discussions with students about the key online safety messages in each chapter.

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Ask for help

This classroom activity is designed to help students recognise an unsafe situation when using digital technologies and to explore help-seeking strategies. This resource incudes a PowerPoint slide deck, educator notes and a student activity pack.

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Years 1 and 2: Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships

This set of learning materials covers eight topics of Social and Emotional Learning across the Years and 2 levels of schooling. Topics include Emotional Literacy; Personal strengths; Positive Coping; Problem Solving; Stress Management; Help Seeking; Gender and Identity; and Positive Gender Relationships.

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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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Being resilient is brilliant

This is a multistage unit of learning focused on empowering students to develop resilience that can support them to respond positively to different situations.

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How can I keep myself and others safe? - Stage 1

In this unit students investigate safe and unsafe features of specific environments and explore actions to enhance their own and others’ safety and wellbeing. Through practical application students develop help-seeking skills and adopt strategies to help keep themselves and others safe.

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How can we include others and build respectful relationships? – Stage 1

In this unit students: • Learn to value diversity and foster connection with others through recognising similarities and differences within groups. • Develop social awareness through participating in group activities (such as yarning circles). • Explore ways to interact with others that promotes inclusion. • Identify and ...

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Work sample Year 1 and 2 Health and Physical Education: Emotional responses

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 1 and 2 Health and Physical Education. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an ...

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Digital Citizenship Resources: Digital Wellbeing

Find resources about evaluating what should be shared online, learning more about the nature of in-app purchasing, assessing the value of playing a lot of video games, and support for students in the development of positive and assertive online skills.

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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.