Develop and Deliver The Program
Identify
Leadership
Explore
Current Practice &
Identify Needs
Engage
The Whole School
Community
Support
Staff to Access
Professional
Learning
Develop &
Deliver
The Program
Review,
Reflect &
Revise
Below you will find links to suggested teaching, learning and assessment activities that will help you to implement your program and ensure it is aligned to the Victorian Curriculum. The activities are mapped to the learning area of Health and Physical Education and the cross-curricular Capabilities. Other learning areas that have content descriptions relevant to RSE include Science, Humanities and English. For guidance on relationships and sexuality education teaching practice, refer to Catching on Early and Catching on Later.
For Primary Schools Download all FPV activities for primary schools
Foundation Level
Topic Areas
Suggested Activities
Growing Up
- Personal Identity
- Changes in growth and development
Relationships
- Emotions
- Friendships
- Resolving Conflict
- Protective behaviours
- Whom can we ask for help at school? (Catching on Early p58-61)
- Friendship role plays – create some friendship scenarios for students to act out and discuss the thoughts and feelings involved
- Discuss how it might feel to be included in activities
- Respond to stories about characters who have been excluded from a group and discuss how the characters could deal with the situation
- Identify and describe the emotions of people who are happy, sad, excited, tired, angry, scared or confused.
- Discuss situations when someone might feel happy, sad, excited, tired, angry, scared or confused at home and at school
- Explore what it means to be kind, fair and respectful to others. Discuss how the health and wellbeing of the class can be improved when everyone is kind, fair and respectful to each other.
See Resources section for additional activities
Levels 1 and 2
Topic Areas
Suggested Activities
Growing up
- Personal Identity
- Changes in growth and development
Relationships
- Emotions
- Friendships
- Resolving conflict
- Protective behaviours
- Inclusion, belonging and tolerance
- Family Circles (Catching on Early p54-57)
- Revisit and extend the Foundation Level activity Whom can we ask for help at school? Also include asking for help at home. (Catching On Early p58-61)
- Ways we care for one another (Catching on Early p78-81)
- Same and different (Catching on Early p68-71)
- Say ‘hello‘ (Catching on Early p72-76)
See Resources section for additional activities
Levels 3 and 4 Download all FPV activities for this year level
Topic Areas
Suggested Activities
Growing up
- Personal Identity
- Changes in growth and development
- Introduction to puberty
Values and beliefs
- Diversity
- The influence of family and peers
Relationships
- Emotions
- Friendships
- Resolving conflict
- Protective behaviours
- Inclusion, belonging and tolerance
- Welcome with a kiss
- Early warning signals
- These are the people who can
- Relationship circles
- Tell or don’t tell
- The touching I like
- The touching I don’t like
- Reading our feelings
- Are you someone who…?
- Qualities of friendship (Catching on Early p128-131)
- Network hand of helping people
- What do you do?
- Gender (Catching on Early p132-134)
Reproduction
- Anatomy
- Conception, pregnancy and birth
See Resources section for additional activities
Levels 5 and 6 Download all FPV activities for this year level
Topic Areas
Suggested Activities
Growing up
- Physical, social and emotional changes of puberty
- Sexual development
- Interview with a puberty survivor
- Common concerns about the changing body
- Puberty Statements
- Coping with body changes (Catching on Early p158-166)
- Finding reliable information (Catching on Early p180-182)
- Explanation of menstruation
- Investigating sanitary products
- Embarrassing situations
- Dear teen doctor
Values and beliefs
- Diversity
- The influence of family and peers
Relationships
- Emotions
- Friendships
- Resolving conflict
- Protective behaviours
- Inclusion, belonging and tolerance
- Network hand of helping people
- Visualising success
- How do you know someone likes you?
- Intimacy scale
- Develop an A-Z of emotions, defining, describing and illustrating an emotion for each letter of the alphabet.
- Forgive or forget
- Explore stereotypes: discuss what stereotypes are. Analyse famous fairy tales identify any stereotypes. Write a new fairy tale that challenges stereotypes.
Reproduction
- Anatomy
- Conception, pregnancy and birth
See Resources section for additional activities
For Secondary Schools Download all FPV activities for secondary schools
Levels 7 and 8 Download all FPV activities for this year level
Topic Areas
Suggested Activities
Growing up
- Physical, social and emotional changes during adolescence
- Variations in relationships
Values and beliefs
- Personal identity and values
- Influence of family and peers
- Respect for differing values and beliefs held in local, national and global contexts
Relationships
- Positive relationships
- Roles and responsibilities in sexual health
- Sexual and gender diversity
- Skills and strategies to prevent and resolve conflict
- Sex and the law, media and community attitudes
- Relationship timeline
- What do you think
- Intimacy scale
- Friendship scenarios
- Take a walk in my shoes
- Ways to say no
- Forgive or forget
- Collapsing friendships
- Giving relationships the green light
- Forced choice
- Network hand of helping people and places
- When is the right time (catching on later p163–168)
Sexual health
- Safer sex and abstinence, contraception and prevention of STIs
- Reproductive health
- Accessing health care
- Sexual decision making
See Resources section for additional activities
Levels 9 and 10 Download all FPV activities for this year level
Topic Areas
Suggested Activities
Values and beliefs
- Personal identity and values
- Influence of family and peers
- Respect for differing values and beliefs held in local, national and global contexts
Relationships
- Positive relationships
- Roles and responsibilities in sexual health
- Sexual and gender diversity
- Sexuality, gender and power
- Skills and strategies to prevent and resolve conflict
- Sex and the law, media and community attitudes
Sexual health
- Safer sex and abstinence, contraception and prevention of STIs
- Reproductive health
- Accessing health care
- Sexual decision making
See Resources section for additional activities
For Special Schools
Register to access Family Planning Victoria’s Disability Resource
Family Planning Victoria has launched the Relationships and Sexuality Education for Students with Disability resource.
This resource provides educators working with students with intellectual disability a comprehensive, age and developmentally appropriate set of relationships and sexuality education resources.
The resource comprises of 9 modules including:
- Body Awareness
- Public and Private
- Feelings
- Identity
- Protective Behaviours
- Puberty
- Conception to Birth
- Relationships
- Sexual Decision Making
FPV’s Relationships and Sexuality Education for Students with Disability resource is available at no cost to users with an education.vic.gov.au email account (Victorian Department of Education employees). Follow the links below to access these resources. You will be prompted to confirm your eligibility at the links.
- Introduction
- Body Awareness
- Public and Private
- Feelings
- Identity
- Protective Behaviours
- Puberty
- Conception to Birth
- Relationships
- Sexual Decision Making
For all others interested in downloading a digital copy of the resource, it can be purchased at a cost of $165incl GST via Family Planning Victoria. Please complete the form below to request the resource. Once your details have been received, you will be sent payment instructions to complete your purchase.