Wellbeing

Wellbeing:

Resilience, Rights & Respectful Relationships Curriculum

In 2016, Respectful Relationships education became a core component of the Victorian Curriculum from Foundation to Year 12 and is being taught in all Government and Catholic schools and many independent schools. A core element of this initiative is the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) curriculum. 

Efforts to promote social and emotional skills and positive gender norms in children and young people has been shown to improve health related outcomes and subjective wellbeing. It also reduces antisocial behaviours including engagement in gender-related violence. Further information about Respectful Relationships education can be found at:  https://www.vic.gov.au/respectful-relationships

This term Grade Five will be teaching the topic: Positive Gender Relationships.

By engaging in activities within this topic students will develop an understanding that verbal, physical, emotional, financial and sexual forms of violence are harmful, and that these forms of violence can also be gendered. They learn about safe and unsafe behaviours, consent and their rights to bodily autonomy. They develop self-care, peer support, peer referral and help-seeking skills that they can use in response to situations involving gender-based violence within family, peer, school, community or online relationships.

The activities covered include:

Activity 1: What is violence? What is Gender-based violence? 

Activity 2: Understanding positive and negative uses of power in relationships.

Activity 3: Active respect in peer relationships 

Activity 4: What is consent? Is this consenting? (Bodily autonomy)

Activity 5: Upstanders - providing peer support in response to gender based violence

Activity 6: Help-seeking in response to gender-based violence 

We encourage you to continue these discussions at home, engaging in age appropriate conversations about what your child has been learning in their Wellbeing lessons. If you have any questions about topics raised, please reach out to Jessica Norder (Learning Specialist - Wellbeing) or Amanda Wilson our Wellbeing Assistant Principal. 

Circle Time & Weekly Behaviour Expectations 

As part of our approach to recognising positive behaviours, we have a weekly focus where we recognise and teach a specific behaviour from our School-Wide Expectations. We do this through Circle Time, which also serves as an important approach to fostering a sense of connectedness, safety and trust amongst our students within our classes. 

Upstanders 

Our 2026 Upstanders Program will continue throughout Term 3 for our leaders. This term it will be led by Jonathan Pepi who will continue to focus the learning with those students around the theme of Empathy. 

LIDSQUAD

Students who wish to continue in LIDSQUAD will be able to participate throughout Term 3. LIDSQUAD will occur during lunch time on Wednesdays and students will work with Cindi Kunaratnam and Alicia Blundell.