Activities

What's OK and what's not OK

Year 8
Relationships
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Students deepen their understanding of 'what's OK' and what's 'not OK' in friendships/romantic relationships and find examples in the film 'Tagged'.

RELATE: Respectful relationships program - Stage 2

Year 8
Year 9
Relationships
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Understanding gender

Students explore gender stereotypes, respectful relationship qualities and non-consensual image sharing in this 8 sequential session program.

Ready vs not ready (for sexual activity)

Year 9
Communication skills
Relationships
Sexuality and sexual behaviour

Students discuss, consider and compare different views and perspectives on being ready for sexual activity.

Choices and consequences

Year 9
Communication skills
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Staying safe
Students watch Kaiyai Girl, an interactive DVD about an Aboriginal Girl, Missy, who is faced with many choices and consequences regarding alcohol and other drugs and sexual health.

Health campaigns - sexual health

Year 10
Communication skills
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Students explore the purpose of health campaigns and identify the components of a successful campaign. In groups, they develop their own campaign with a sexual health theme.

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.

Power to manage relationships

Year 10
Relationships
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Staying safe
Understanding gender

Students explore effective strategies such as refusal skills, communicating choices, expressing opinions and initiating contingency plans when dealing with challenging relationships.

Sexually transmissible infections

Year 10
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Staying safe
Students investigate the risks, symptoms and methods of transmission of STIs.

Sexting: To send or not to send

Year 10
Year 8
Year 9
Communication skills
Relationships
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Staying safe

Students use a video and a decision mapping process to explore situations where people might be asked to send a sext. Emotional, social, ethical and legal consequences of sending or not sending a sext are unpacked.

Porn: The who, what, where, when, how, why and why not

Year 10
Year 9
Communication skills
Relationships
Sexuality and sexual behaviour

Students use a video and the graffiti wall strategy to develop an understanding of what porn is, how people come across porn, why people access porn and its possible harms. Strategies for dealing with unwanted exposure to porn are also discussed. 

RELATE: Respectful relationships program - Stage 3

Year 10
Year 9
Communication skills
Relationships
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Understanding gender
Students explore gender stereotypes, respectful relationship qualities, sex and consent, sexual assault, sexual decision making.

Sexual consent and the law

Year 10
Year 9
Communication skills
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Staying safe

Students analyse sexual consent and the law through real life scenarios.

Keeping safe in sexual situations

Year 10
Year 9
Relationships
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour

Students explore legal, physical, social and emotional safety, and respectful relationships using placemat strategy and video stimulus.

Safer sex - condoms

Year 10
Year 9
Relationships
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour

Students use a video stimulus; explore condom use stats; brainstorm what safer sex is, reasons why people use/don't use condoms and the life skills required for condom negotiation

Assessment task: Safer sex quiz questions

Year 10
Year 9
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour

Students research and develop quiz questions about safer sex. Teacher combines student's questions to create a class quiz assessment.

Blood-borne virus safety

Year 10
Year 9
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Staying safe

Students complete a pre-quiz then use a video stimulus and websites to research BBV transmission/prevention and share their findings in creative formats.