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Relationships News

At Cranbourne South in 2020 we embarked on our journey with Respectful Relationships with a whole school approach. 

What is Respectful Relationships?

Respectful Relationships became a core component of the Victorian Curriculum in 2016. The initiative focuses on teaching social, emotional and relationship skills to students as well as assists schools to create caring and equitable learning environments.

Respectful Relationships aims to prevent gender based and family violence in future generations by helping students develop positive relationships, resist harmful social pressures, resolve interpersonal conflict and seek and provide help when needed. This is done by promoting equity and respect through direct instruction but also through the systems and practices across the school. 

What is taught in the RRRR curriculum?

Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) is a world -class teaching and learning program developed by experts at Deakin and Melbourne Graduate School of Education. These age appropriate resources include lesson plans and activities to help students learn and practice social skills and apply them in positive ways to learning, life and relationships.

Over the course of the year the students will cover eight topics of social and emotional learning.

• Emotional Literacy
• Personal Strengths
• Positive Coping
• Problem Solving
• Stress Management
• Help Seeking
• Gender and Identity
• Positive Gender Relations

Each iNewsletter there will be some ideas for Social and Emotional learning activities and conversation starters that you can use at home.

This Week: Topic 1 Emotional Literacy

Talk about how the characters in your favourite TV show, movie or book are feelings. How many can you name? Ask: How can we work out what emotions other people are feeling?