Life Education

We are excited to welcome the Life Education Team to DPS, beginning next Wednesday to take each class through a tailored face-to-face health and wellbeing lesson.

Prep and Year 1: Harold's friendship

This module covers: 

• How to build friendships and care for others
• Identifying and managing feelings and emotions
• Recognising body clues that let us know when we could be unsafe
• Safe people and places to seek help

Year 2: Growing Good Friends

This module covers:

• Recognising how nutrition and physical activity contributes to health
• Exploring health messages and advertising influences
• Identifying qualities and attributes of good friends
• People in our network who can support and help us

Year 3: All Systems Go

This module covers:

• The function of vital organs (heart, lungs, brain, kidneys)
• Healthy choices to look after the body such as food and exercise
• Factors that influence the function of the body systems such as medicines or second hadn smoke
• Strategies to manage peer pressure

Year 4: Mind Your Medicine

This module covers:

• Types of medicines, what they are for and how they can help the body
• Medicine as drugs & the consequences of their misuse
  Techniques for effective communication and managing conflict
• Strategies for managing stressful situations
• People and places to seek support if needed

Year 5 and 6: Relate Respect Connect

This module covers:

• Understanding how to respect ourselves and others
• Strategies to help maintain positive online and offline relationships
• Identifying characteristics of postive relationships
• How to recognise, react and report unwanted contact, bullying or predatory behaviours

Life Education also offers parent webinars that you can access at

https://www.lifeedvic.org.au/for-families/parent-webinars 

If you have any questions about Life Education, please come to the office or speak with your child's teacher.