Health and physical education / Year 9 and 10 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Being healthy, safe and active

Curriculum content descriptions

Examine the impact of changes and transitions on relationships (ACPPS090)

Elaborations
  • practising skills to deal with challenging or unsafe situations, such as refusal skills, communicating choices, expressing opinions and initiating contingency plans
  • asserting their stance on a situation, dilemma or decision by expressing thoughts, opinions and beliefs that acknowledge the feelings of others
  • assessing behavioural expectations in different relationships and social situations, and examining how these expectations can influence decisions and actions
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Social relations,  Adaptability

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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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Power to manage relationships

Students explore skills needed when dealing with challenging relationships and unsafe situations. The lesson explores topics such as refusal, communicating choices, acting assertively, expressing thoughts, opinions and beliefs and initiating contingency plans.

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Ready vs not ready (for sexual activity)

Students discuss, consider and compare different views and perspectives about being ready for sexual activity.

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Body image

Students analyse how beauty is represented in the media through music and magazines and the impact that this, and the perceptions of others, have on personal identities.

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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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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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Enhancing interpersonal skills

Students explore what constitutes respectful relationships, what influences inclusivity and equality in relationships, and how to seek help if something isn’t right. They identify interpersonal skills that build and maintain respectful and inclusive relationships.

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Building respect in relationships

Students explore what constitutes respectful relationships, what influences inclusivity and equality in relationships, and how to seek help if something isn’t right. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to analyse factors and strategies that enhance respectful relationships, articulate interpersonal skills in ...

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Conversations and relationships

Students learn about the importance of open and respectful communication for building and developing friendships. They identify forms of open communication, develop understandings of the role of different relationships in their lives and reflect on their own communication skills.

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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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More Than This

This learning resource has been developed to support the video series More Than This which is a teen drama that explores the wide range of emotions and challenges that secondary school students face as they explore identity and belonging, gender identity and sexuality, relationships, family and academic pressures and taking ...