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