Health and Physical Education / Year 7 and 8 / Personal, social and community health / Interacting with others

Curriculum content descriptions

explain and apply skills and strategies to communicate assertively and respectfully when seeking, giving or denying consent (AC9HP8P07)

Elaborations
  • exploring and refining skills and strategies needed to communicate assertively and respectfully in relationships
  • understanding and applying online and social protocols to enhance relationships with others and protect their own wellbeing, including recognising and responding to online content that may be harmful for themselves or others (such as grooming or image-based abuse), respectfully communicating needs or concerns to others
  • examining the nature of consent in different types of relationships, and proposing and practising strategies for seeking, giving and denying consent respectfully
General capabilities
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Respect,  Assertiveness,  Social relations

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Communication

In this comprehensive resource, students are taught the importance of understanding nonverbal messages, listening carefully, speaking clearly, being assertive, and expressing opinions constructively.

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Growing and developing healthy relationships: Activities

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Be Deadly Online

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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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Years 7 and 8: Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships

This set of learning materials covers eight topics of Social and Emotional Learning across the Years 7 and 8 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

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Establishing and maintaining respectful relationships online and offline

This resource includes learning sequences on the following topics: Qualities of respectful relationships, The importance of consent, Trust your gut, and Respectful relationships in an online world.

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Work sample Year 7 and 8 Health and Physical Education: Personal safety

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 7 and 8 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 ...