Health and physical education / Year 5 and 6 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Being healthy, safe and active

Curriculum content descriptions

Investigate resources and strategies to manage changes and transitions associated with puberty (ACPPS052)

Elaborations
  • understanding that individuals experience changes associated with puberty at different times, with differing levels of intensity and with different responses
  • researching and identifying age-appropriate text and web-based resources to enhance understanding of changes associated with puberty
  • examining the range of products available to manage the physical changes associated with puberty
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Social influence,  Adaptability,  Puberty,  Coming of age,  Peer groups,  Maturity

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Having a positive attitude

In this resource, students will be able to give positive statements about themselves and others. They explain how a positive attitude changes how we feel/act and how to turn a negative thought or experience into a positive thought. Students will learn about the importance of a growth mindset through positive self-talk 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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Reproductive systems revision

Students revise their understanding of the parts and functions of the reproductive systems. This provides foundation knowledge for learning about puberty, menstruation, conception and pregnancy.

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Puberty - Managing change and transition

Students develop an understanding that the changes that occur during puberty affect young people physically, socially and emotionally and can affect boys and girls differently.

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Taking care of your body during puberty

Students identify appropriate self care practices which become increasingly important as they go through puberty.

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Body changes during puberty

Students are introduced to the physical, emotional and social changes that take place during puberty.

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Reproductive systems

Students develop an understanding of the parts and functions of the reproductive system. This provides foundation knowledge for learning about about puberty, menstruation, conception and pregnancy.

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Changes in relationships

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

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Lockie Leonard for Teachers

This is a multiliteracy resource aimed to help students explore the Lockie Leonard television series, based on the original trilogy of books by Tim Winton. This website provides access to over 100 teaching and learning activities, each supported by video clips and student worksheets exploring themes including Transition ...

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A Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl

This resource supports the film A Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl which documents the lives of twelve 12-year old girls. It can be used to explore ideas and representations of identity. It can also be used to unpack the director’s intention to make a film that walks the ‘line of fact and fiction’.

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Guide to thrive

The practical classroom activities in the Classroom Implementation Guide focus on students in Years 6 and 7 and the challenges of transition. The activities focus on communication skills, managing change and other associated topics. They are suitable for most students to complete independently or with teacher support.

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Years 5 and 6: Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships

This set of learning materials covers eight topics of Social and Emotional Learning across the Years 5 and 6 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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First Day: Teaching Toolkit

This resource supports the exploration of themes in the film series First Day. First Day explores the experiences of a transgender student who is starting secondary school. The resource will help students to prepare for, process, and reflect on their own transitions to secondary school as well as some elements of respectful ...

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How am I responsible for my increasing independence?

In this unit students investigate how their level of independence changes over time. They identify influences which can affect decision making and that decision making affects their personal safety and that of others within their community. Students explore networks which can provide advice and support in their community.