Consent, respectful relationships and eSafety

This program builds on students’ eSafety knowledge by exploring how they use the internet to enact relationships and curiosity about sexual content. Students critically engage with personal values and identity and explore how to have consensual, respectful and healthy relationships online and offline.

Description

For Primary Schools

This program builds on students’ eSafety knowledge by exploring how they use the internet to enact relationships and curiosity about sexual content. 

Students critically engage with personal values and identity and explore how to have consensual, respectful and healthy relationships online and offline. 

The workshop gives students the opportunity to reflect on their network of safe adults, consider help seeking behaviours, and foster empathy within their online and offline friendship groups.

For Secondary Schools

 This program encourages students to think critically about consent and respect in personal relationships. By understanding their own values and identity, students will look closely at gendered stereotypes, power imbalances, and digital media literacy.
The workshop covers the moral and ethical considerations of personal interactions, as well as the legal implications. 

Year levels, duration and topics covered

Primary Schools

Years 4-6 

3 x 1-hour sessions (options available on session length)  

There is also space to focus on targeted topics of particular concern or importance for the school cohort.

  • Personal identity 
  • Gender stereotypes 
  • Online and offline respect 
  • Green and red flags in friendships and other relationships 
  • Online conduct, contact and content;  
  • Help-seeking 

 

Secondary Schools

Years 7-12 

1 x 2-hour sessions  
Half day workshop
Full day workshop 

There is also space to focus on targeted topics of particular concern or importance for the school cohort.

The program topics: 

  • Informed, affirmative consent 
  • Respectful relationships 
  • Setting and respecting boundaries 
  • Power imbalances 
  • Blame, shame, and positive affirmation 
  • Gender stereotypes 
  • Green and red flags in personal relationships 
  • Bystanders and upstanders 
  • Taking, sharing, and altering nude images 
  • Sexual digital media literacy 
  • Social media and respectful relationships 
  • Porn and sexual knowledge 
  • Ethical and legal rights and responsibilities 
Help seeking 

Parent / Carer

For Primary Schools

1 hour Information Session

In which parents and carers will learn about the topics that their children will be discussing in within the program, and how they relate to their children having respectful relationships.

OR 2 hour workshop 

In which parents and carers will learn about the following topics that their children will be learning, and how they relate to their children having respectful relationships.

  • Healthy boundaries in exploring and expressing sexuality  
  • Challenging misinformation about sex and relationships 
  • Responsible use of technology and social media 
  • The role of age and gender in power imbalances 
  • The law: children’s rights and responsibilities 

For Secondary Schools

1 hour Information Session

In which parents and carers will learn about the topics that students will be discussing in within the program, and how they relate to their children having respectful relationships. 

OR 2 hour workshop 

In which parents and carers will learn about the following topics that students will be learning, and how they relate to students having respectful relationships.

  • Affirmative consent 
  • Healthy boundaries in exploring  and expressing sexuality  
  • Challenging misinformation about sex and relationships 
  • Responsible use of technology and social media 
  • The role of age and gender in power imbalances 

The law: children’s rights and responsibilities

Parent / Carer Workshops

Professional Development

For Facilitators, Teachers and Professionals

For Primary Schools

2-hour workshop 

This professional development training helps educators feel confident in their understanding of topic 7 and 8 of the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships curriculum. Educators will explore:

  • Consent 
  • Respectful relationships  
  • Friends, followers and predator grooming; Spotting red flags  
  • Nudes, porn and sexting  
  • Teens' legal rights and responsibilities  
  • Bystanders & upstanders: the risks and rewards of speaking up 
  • Power imbalances 
  • Sexual digital media literacy 
  • Examining gendered messages and the portrayal of minority groups online 

This professional development course meets the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST): 1.3, 2.3, 2.6, 3.7, 4.4, 4.5, 6.2, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

For Secondary Schools

2-hour workshop 
Half day workshop 
Full day workshop 
Years 7-12 

This professional development training helps educators feel confident in their understanding of topic 7 and 8 of the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships curriculum. Educators will explore: 

The program can cover all or some of these topics as required: 
• Informed, affirmative consent 
• Friends, followers and predator grooming 
• Respectful relationships 
• Setting and respecting boundaries 
• Power imbalances 
• Blame, shame, and positive affirmation 
• Gender stereotypes 
• Green and red flags in personal relationships 
• Bystanders and upstanders 
• Taking, sharing, and altering nude images 
• Sexual digital media literacy 
• Social media and respectful relationships 
• Porn and sexual knowledge 
• Ethical and legal rights and responsibilities 
• Examining gendered messages and the portrayal of minority groups 
• Managing backlash 
• Help seeking 


This professional development course meets the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST): 1.3, 2.3, 2.6, 3.7, 4.4, 4.5, 6.2, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 

Primary School PD
Secondary School PD

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