Stage 6 Life Ready course

Life Ready prepares senior students with the knowledge, skills and strategies to make informed decisions about their health, safety and wellbeing as they transition to adulthood. Safe travel is one of the learning contexts.

About Life Ready

  • The Curriculum planning and programming, assessing and reporting to parents K–12 policy requires all NSW government secondary schools to deliver the Life Ready course for a minimum indicative time of 25 hours.
  • Schools can deliver the course in Year 11, Year 12, or across both years.
  • The course is organised into six contemporary learning contexts, including Safe Travel, which supports students to understand and manage risks associated with being a road user.

For more information about the course, visit the PDHPE Curriculum – About Life Ready webpage.

Resources for Safe Travel

To assist teachers provide relevant teaching and learning Stage 6 resources have been developed to deliver the Safe Travel context


Engaging external road safety provider checklist to assist teachers make professional judgements about engaging an external provider.


Professional learning

Schools are encouraged to send teachers to the Stage 6 Life Ready: Teaching the skills through Safe Travel professional learning workshop, which allows teachers to:

  • investigate opportunities to enhance their Life Ready program, through skills-based teaching and learning activities.
  • review a variety of resources to support the effective implementation of Life Ready/ Safe Travel and best meet the needs of the student cohort.


Life Ready - coordinator and teacher introduction 2 hour professional learning module is also useful to enrol in, if you are new to the role.


Category:

  • Life Ready

Business Unit:

  • Curriculum
Page details
Last modified date
20/07/2026
Business unit contact email
Executive director
Megan Kelly
Executive director’s business unit
Teaching Learning&Student Wellbeing
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