Respectful relationships and sexuality education

This program offers curriculum aligned sexuality education including the role of families, demystifying bodies, conception and birth, and puberty. Through games, guided discussion and storytelling, students reflect on concepts that recognise the diversity of families and values within the school community.

Description

For Primary Schools

This program offers curriculum aligned sexuality education including the role of families, demystifying bodies, conception and birth, and puberty.

Through games, guided discussion and storytelling, students reflect on concepts that recognise the diversity of families and values within the school community.

The program is in line with the National Curriculum and the Rights, Resilience, and Respectful Relationships Curriculum.

For Secondary Schools

This program offers age-appropriate and comprehensive information about sex; sexuality; gender identity and expression; pleasure; consent; and harm reduction. It is informed by the Health and Human Development Curriculum.

Equipping young people with the skills of empathy, respect, and self-awareness, the program is a frank, inclusive and welcoming way for students to ask questions and find out information in a safe and affirming environment

Year levels, duration and topics covered

Primary School

Foundation to Year 2
3 x 1 hour sessions

My family
My body
Body safety
Foetal development and birth

Years 3 and 4
5 x 1-hour sessions

My family
Bodies, sex, and gender
Body safety
Puberty basics
Conception, foetal development and birth

Years 5 and 6
5 x 1-hour sessions

Bodies, sex and gender
Body changes during puberty
Periods and sperm production
Emotions
Safe adults
Consent
Conception
Foetal development
Birth
Healthy online & offline relationships

Secondary Schools

Years 7-12
6 x 1-hour sessions

Sex and sexuality
The law, and personal values
Safer sex
Contraception
Sexually transmissible infections
How to access sexual health services
Respectful relationships
Affirmative consent
Negotiating, setting and respecting boundaries
The law, sex, and digital media.

Parent / Carer

For Primary School

1-hour Information Session

Teachers often have the difficult job of parent engagement around sensitive topics such as sexuality education.

In this information session, parents and carers will hear about the topics their children will cover in the program, see the educational tools we use and can ask questions about contents and beneficial effects for their children.

For Secondary School

1-hour Information Session

This workshop is designed to give parents and carers the information they need to understand and respond to students growing need for information about sex, sexuality, and consent in their online and offline worlds.

Primary Parent/Carer Workshop

Secondary Parent/Carer Workshop

Professional Development

For Facilitators, Teachers and Professionals

For Primary School

2-hour workshop
Half day workshop
Full day workshop

Our relationships and sexuality education professional development covers the following areas:

Families: what makes a family? What is their role?
Creating a classroom that is safe and inclusive of: Cultural diversity, LGBTQIA+ students, students of LGBTQIA+ parents, children with a disability, children with a religion, children of all genders
Bodies: naming private and reproductive body parts
Babies: conception, foetal development and birth
Puberty: physical and emotional changes
Respectful relationships: the foundations
Power inequity in relationships: gender and other imbalances
Consent: exploring the continuum
eSafety: how young people explore and express sexuality online
Media literacy: how to talk about porn without watching porn
Sex: sexuality and gender

This professional development course meets the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST): 1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.6, 3.5, 3.7, 4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 6.2, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3

For Secondary School

2-hour workshop

Our relationships and sexuality education professional development covers the following areas:

Sex and sexuality
The law, and personal values
Safer sex
Contraception
Sexually transmissible infections
How to access sexual health services
Respectful relationships
Affirmative consent
Negotiating, setting and respecting boundaries
The law, sex, and digital media.

Half day and full day extension programs are also available

This professional development course meets the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST): 1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.6, 3.5, 3.7, 4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 6.2, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3

Primary School PD

Secondary School PD

Further Information

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Body Safety Australia acknowledges and pays respect to the past and present Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural, spiritual, and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

Body Safety Australia is a child-safe organisation. We are committed to keeping children and young people safe by empowering the whole community in prevention education. We value and empower children and young people's voices in our programs and create a safe space that supports all persons to disclose. To read our full commitment to children, click here. If you have a Child Safety concern, click here.

Location

Ground Floor
262-266 Victoria St
North Melbourne, 3051
VIC, Australia

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Ph: (03) 9471 2247