Respectful relationships and sexuality education
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.
Professional Development
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
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