Student Welbeing

Term 3 – Workshop ‘Love Bites’ for Year 8s

Love Bites is a Respectful Relationships Education Program for young people.  It consists of an interactive workshop for our Middle school students, followed by creative workshop and community campaign. 

The program emphasizes the importance of a whole-of-school commitment to respectful relationship education.  Love Bites aims to provide young people with a safe environment to examine, discuss and explore respectful relationships. All Love Bites programming takes a strength-based approach and views young people as active participants who can make choices for themselves and their relationships when supported with information and opportunity for skill development. 

Love Bites education is focused on three critical areas for learning:

Knowledge: Youth-led collaborative learning

Attitudes: Critical thinking and decision-making and

Behaviours: Problem solving and communication skills 

The program aims to equip young people with the knowledge needed to have respectful relationships, encourage, and develop their skills in critical thinking, and assist them in problem-solving and communicating effectively.  When equipped in these areas, NAPCAN believes that young people can make the right choices for themselves and their relationships that are free from violence and abuse. 

Workshop Details: Year 8s: 25 July and 29 July 

Additional information will be provided to parents and students in Compass during the week of the workshops.

MADELINE GAITANIS, Student Services Leader