Wellbeing & Disability and Inclusion

Respectful Relationships Education @ BNPS

Beginning in Term 2, our Year 6 students will be engaging in wellbeing lessons from the Respectful Relationships Curriculum. The topics we will be focusing on are ‘Gender and Identity’ and ‘Positive Gender Relations’. In Term 3, our students from Prep-6 will engage with the Respectful Relationships (RR) Curriculum at an age-appropriate level.

The Royal Commission into Family Violence identified the critical role that schools, and early childhood education have in creating a culture of respect to change the story of family violence for future generations.

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.

Everyone in our community deserves to be respected, valued and treated equally. We know that changes in attitudes and behaviours can be achieved when positive attitudes, behaviours and equality are embedded in our education settings.

Respectful Relationships is about embedding a culture of respect and equality across our entire community, from our classrooms to staff rooms, sporting fields, fetes and social events. This approach leads to positive impacts on a student's academic outcomes, their mental health, classroom behaviour, and relationships between teachers and students.

Beaumaris North Primary School students will be developing their personal, social and emotional skills through a series of learning experiences.

The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) learning materials cover eight topics of Social and Emotional Learning.

Below is a visual representation of how these topics are covered in The Resilience Project (TRP) Curriculum. As part of our participation in The Resilience Project Program, we cover RRRR Topics 1-6. However, we are required to teach Topic 7 and 8 separately. 

If you would like to learn more about why we teach the Respectful Relationships Curriculum, we encourage you to access these links:

• “What is Respectful Relationships Education?” - Respectful Relationships - Vox Pops... - VideoLink
• “The Hidden Victors” - https://video.link/w/xTPzd
• Respectful Relationships | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au)

The Respectful Relationships Team

Sherril Duffy, Brent Plowright, Nicholas Arnold, Sheridan Duffy-Fainu’u and Jessica Patane