Learning activities
Activities
Families may change
Year 1
Relationships
Values, rights, culture
Students consider the ways that a family may change and identify ways to cope with changes.
Managing family change
Year 2
Communication skills
Relationships
Values, rights, culture
Students discuss the changes that take place in families and identify independent activities that they can do to help and cope with these changes.
We are all different
Year 2
Communication skills
Values, rights, culture
Students explore the concepts of males and females by looking at the physical, emotional and social similarities and differences.
Understanding discrimination
Year 3
Relationships
Values, rights, culture
Students develop strategies to address discrimination using game-play and scenarios to explore exclusion, prejudice, and discrimination of gender and healthy relationships.
Messages about body image
Year 4
Growing bodies
Understanding gender
Values, rights, culture
Students explore different messages they get from a range of sources about ideal bodies and the impact these messages have on their own body image.
Understanding influences on behaviour
Year 5
Relationships
Values, rights, culture
Students explore how family, peers and the media influence how individuals interact in given situation.
Peer influence
Year 6
Communication skills
Relationships
Values, rights, culture
Students investigate the possible influence that peers have on making decisions.
Body image
Year 9
Communication skills
Growing bodies
Understanding gender
Values, rights, culture
Students analyse how beauty is represented in the media through magazines and the impact this and the perceptions of others have on personal identities.
Gender expectations
Year 9
Relationships
Understanding gender
Values, rights, culture
Students examine how diversity and gender is often represented in the media and the impact this has on personal identities.
Influence of the media
Year 10
Communication skills
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Values, rights, culture
Students explore the impact of sexualised imagery on young people’s sexual identities and sexual behaviours through the use of music clips and newspaper articles.