Health and Physical Education / Foundation / Personal, social and community health / Making healthy and safe choices

Curriculum content descriptions

demonstrate protective behaviours, name body parts and rehearse help-seeking strategies that help keep them safe (AC9HPFP05)

Elaborations
  • exploring protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies they can use when they or others feel unsafe or uncomfortable
  • exploring and demonstrating assertive strategies to seek help when they or others feel unsafe
  • recognising online spaces and digital tools that are safe for them to use and recognising the importance of seeking help from a trusted adult if they feel unsafe while online
  • identifying a support network of adults they can trust to help them if they feel unsafe, uncomfortable or scared
  • recognising that all people have the right to bodily autonomy: the right to make choices about what others ask them to do with and to their bodies
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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Work sample Foundation Year Health and Physical Education: Staying safe

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

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Trusted adults

Students explore the concept of trusted adults, who can help them to feel safe, using the 'helping hand' strategy.

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Public vs private body parts

Students develop their understanding of the differences between public body parts and private body parts.

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My body inside and out

Students identify the correct names and location of their body parts (which may include genitalia).

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Bodies: Similarities and differences

Students explore the physical features of people and identify similarities and differences between them.

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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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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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Foundation: Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships

This set of learning materials covers eight topics of Social and Emotional Learning across the Foundation level 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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TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Foundation, Year 1, Year 2 Health & Physical Education

This unit of work introduces students to the importance of safe behaviours in and around tracks and stations based on a real or virtual visit to a station, local level crossing and tracks. The central focus is familiarisation with main elements of the train network and responsible actions around crossings, platforms and ...

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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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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 ...