Wellbeing

Puberty Education

This term our Year 5 and 6 students are undertaking study under the Health and Physical Education component of the Victorian curriculum.

Health and Physical Education aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable students to:

• access, evaluate and synthesise information to take positive action to protect, enhance and advocate for their own and others’ health, wellbeing, safety and physical activity participation across their lifespan
• develop and use personal, behavioural, social and cognitive skills and strategies to promote a sense of personal identity and wellbeing and to build and manage respectful relationships

We are lucky enough to have the support of Cath McCallig to cover these sessions with our students. The sessions look at reproduction and the physical, social and emotional changes of puberty. This program is delivered via 3 x 1 hour sessions. Students are given the opportunity to ask anonymous questions which are written at the end of Session 2 and answered during the following class. Students’ privacy and anonymity is always paramount. These questions lead to further discussion in areas where students may have particular concerns around the changes of puberty. The idea of ‘consent’ is explored in these sessions as part of empowering students to keep themselves safe, and also in consideration of the safety and rights of others.

Here is a list of resources that Cath recommends to support families to tackle these topics at home. 

If you have any specific questions for Cath please feel free to email her:

Contact Sex Ed 4 Schools here: cath.mccallig@gmail.com