Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships at CHPS 

Resilience, Rights, and Respectful Relationships at Clifton Hill Primary School

Positive Gender Relations

Clifton Hill Primary School continues to support your children’s Health and Wellbeing through (amongst other things) the explicit teaching of the eight topics from the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships program. 

These eight topics include:

Each fortnight/month we will offer an insight into lessons from the program that your child/children may be involved in. Here we look at:

Topic 8 - Positive Gender Relations - You may be able to discuss, or use aspects of these lessons at home.

AIMS: 

Activities within this topic area will assist students to: 

• Develop an understanding of gender-based violence as involving unfair and hurtful behaviours depending on determined genders
•  Identify examples of the ways that gender-based violence can include things that people say (verbal), things they do to others’ bodies or possessions (physical) or things people do that affect how safe or welcome people feel e.g. ignoring, leaving out, laughing at (psychological)
• Examine the effects of physical, verbal and psychological gender-based violence on all parties involved
• Identify and practice respectful and gender-friendly behaviours
• Develop and practice assertiveness and help seeking strategies to protect themselves when they feel unsafe in situations involving gender based violence.

Evidence Base: Studies show that school-based violence prevention and respectful relationships initiatives can make a real difference, producing lasting change in attitudes and behaviours in students. In effective programs,children and young people learn about the ways in which power relations inform gender relationships. They learn how to translate a belief in respect for others into respectful communicative practices. This requires a focus on skills as well as attitudes. Studies show that effective programs employ participatory and interactive pedagogy. Participatory pedagogies stimulate the critical thinking necessary to interrogate social norms and to develop the social skills needed in daily life.  Resilience, Rights and Respectful relationships - DET. 2018

• Activities at Foundation may look like: CLICK HERE
• Activities at Year One and Two may look like: CLICK HERE
• Activities at Year Three and Four may look like:CLICK HERE
• Activities at Year Five and Six may look like: CLICK HERE