Health and physical education / Year 7 and 8 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

Curriculum content descriptions

Investigate the benefits of relationships and examine their impact on their own and others’ health and wellbeing (ACPPS074)

Elaborations
  • examining how individuals, family and peer groups influence people’s behaviours, decisions and actions
  • understanding and applying online and social protocols to enhance relationships with others and protect their own wellbeing, including recognising and responding to inappropriate online content
  • analysing how their relationships influence behaviours and actions
  • analysing how behaviours, actions, and responses to situations can change depending on whether they are by themselves, with friends or with family
  • recognising the impact bullying and harassment can have on relationships, including online relationships
  • exploring skills and strategies needed to communicate and engage in relationships in respectful ways
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Social influence,  Wellbeing

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Non-Verbal Communication

This lesson plan supports students to consider the many ways in which people communicate non-verbally, to identify their own preferences, and begin to think about the importance of this concept when interacting with others who may be different from them.

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Resolving conflicts

This comprehensive resource builds students’ skills in the process of resolving conflicts. Topics include understanding the nature of conflict, being able to identify and control emotions in conflict, using communication skills effectively, and application of the skills to conflict situations.

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Confidence Building

This resource is designed to help in facilitating the development of confidence in young people. Self-respect, respect, identification and use of strengths and weaknesses, healthy life habits, the significance of clarifying values, avoidance of stereotyping, and development of personal power are all covered throughout this ...

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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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First Day Series 2

This resource contains five lessons which explore key themes in First Day series 2 including gender diversity, leadership, allyship, advocacy and media representation. Each lesson includes discussion starters, a relevant First Day clip to view and respond to, and suggested learning tasks to reinforce and demonstrate student ...

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RELATE: Respectful relationships program - Stage 2

This resource is a one-term Respectful Relationships program consisting of 8 scaffolded sessions covering topics such as Creating a group agreement, Assessing prior knowledge, Difference between gender stereotypes and expectations, Respectful relationship qualities, Non-consensual image sharing, Decision making frameworks, ...

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What's OK and what's not OK

Students deepen their understanding of 'what's OK' and what's 'not OK' in friendships/romantic relationships and find examples in the film 'Tagged'.

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Qualities of respectful relationships

Students identify the qualities of a respectful relationship, problem solve in a range of bullying, harassment and stressful situations and work towards enhancing an existing relationship by making informed choices about future actions.

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Young and eSafe

These short videos and associated lesson plans are designed to help young people create a positive online world and reinforce respectful and responsible online behaviour. Find topics such as Respect, Responsibility, Empathy, Resilience and Critical thinking.

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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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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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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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Work sample Year 7 and 8 Health and Physical Education: Including others

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 ...

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Work sample Year 7 and 8 Health and Physical Education: Respectful relationships

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 ...

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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.

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Gambling: Identifying influences

In this lesson students consider their circles of influence, identifying influential factors that may contribute to finding ourselves in potentially unsafe situations. Students then explore ways to resist negative influences and encourage positive influences. The class practices responding to situations of gambling harm ...

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Get ready to learn! Interoception and self-regulation

Interoception (mindful body awareness) refers to the perception, recognition and understanding of the internal physical states. These body signals can be understood as emotions and/or feelings which can then be responded to. Self-regulation is the ability to moderate or control emotions and actions in order to function ...