Keeping myself safe

This unit explores different parts of the body, including those which are private, rights and responsibilities, appropriate touch, and how to respond to inappropriate touch. Students will recognise reactions and body signals to safe and unsafe situations and develop their help seeking and interpersonal skills, including how to express ways to show respect to others, and use No-Go-Tell.

Staying safe

Through this unit, students will practise a range of protective strategies for responding to various situations. They will build their understanding of connection and belonging by identifying groups they belong to and recognising behaviours which include and exclude others. Students will develop and apply interpersonal and self management skills to build relationships, demonstrate cooperation and communicate respectfully in the class and small groups.

Strengths and strategies for safety

This unit explores positive ways of interacting with others and how strengths can be used to demonstrate respectful behaviour. Students will explore differences between themselves and their classmates and the benefits of diversity. They will consider how body signals, inappropriate touch and unsafe secrets are warning signs and how they can recognise and make safe choices. Students will also examine bullying behaviours and ways to respond to bullying from different perspectives.

My right to be safe

Through this unit, students will identify the rights of themselves and others. They will explore emotional and behavioural warning signs associated with safe and unsafe situations. Students will identify sources of support to assist them to learn about change and to seek help and advice to manage the changes associated with puberty.

Standing up for the rights of myself and others

Through this unit, students will investigate whether the rights of others are being respected in given scenarios and use this information to identify behaviours that constitute various types of abuse. They will recognise that everyone has the right to be safe and that they can use their personal power and strengths to stand up for their own and others’ rights in a safe and positive way.

Safe and unsafe relationships

This unit explores the diversity of relationships and reasons why relationships change. Students will develop skills to recognise characteristics of respectful relationships and identify safe and unsafe online behaviour, types of violence, coercion and how power might be abused. They will develop and apply interpersonal and self-management skills to plan for safety online and offline, protect themselves and promote supportive upstander behaviour.

Power to protect

Through this unit, students will develop skills to identify emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect and forms of harassment. Students will also consider contextual factors that influence the safety of a situation and develop safety plans to lower their level of risk. Students will discuss and practise protective strategies that can be used to support and protect themselves and advocate for others.

Establishing and maintaining respectful relationships online and offline

Through this unit, students will investigate strategies they can apply to establish and maintain respectful relationships online and offline. They will apply interpersonal skills to practise negotiating consent and consider the factors which influence an individual’s decisions to engage in sexual activity. Students will compare the similarities and differences in the rights and responsibilities between online and offline environments and make links between personal decisions, contextual factors and personal values in relation to sexual behaviours.

Using my personal power positively

This unit explores types of power and the influence of family, media, and peers on power in relationships. Students will develop and apply a range of interpersonal and self-management skills through this unit. For example, they will devise a range of help-seeking strategies to respond to abuse of power in relationships, identify techniques to persuade people to seek appropriate help in a range of situations and apply and evaluate communication skills to ask for help.

Setting and respecting boundaries in relationships

Through this unit, students will investigate the need for establishing boundaries in relationships. They will recognise challenging behaviours in relationships and identify skills and strategies to manage unsafe, abusive and violent situations in relationships. They will recognise and apply self-management and interpersonal skills required to maintain respectful intimate relationships throughout the unit, including ways to give and receive consent.

The impact of power and identity on relationships

Through this unit, students will build their understanding of the link between gender and violence and investigate the influence of gender on power and how power is used in positive and negative ways in relationships. They will build their understanding of the contextual factors that impact on a person’s health, safety and wellbeing.