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K–6Personal Development, Health and Physical Education K–6 Syllabus

Record of changes
Implementation from 2027
Expand for detailed implementation advice

Content

Early Stage 1

Respectful relationships and safety
Respectful relationships support health and wellbeing
  • Identify familiar or personal relationships and connections to family, people and groups

  • Identify how personal strengths and characteristics contribute to respectful relationships

  • Identify the ways Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Cultural connections to others enhance wellbeing

Respectful relationships contribute to personal safety
  • Identify people who can be trusted for safety and support

  • Demonstrate how to assertively ask for help in a range of situations

  • Describe the meaning of the word ‘private’ and identify private body parts

  • Recognise emotional and physical signs that can indicate safe and unsafe situations

  • Identify appropriate and inappropriate touch, contact or interactions and demonstrate ways to respond offline and online

  • Demonstrate protective strategies including ‘No-Go-Tell’

  • Demonstrate how to assertively gain, give or deny consent and respect responses

Personal actions support safety
  • Identify situations as being safe or unsafe and demonstrate how to seek help

  • Identify symbols in the home and messages in the school and community that support safety

  • Identify messages in stories shared within Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander families or Elders that teach children how to stay safe on Country and/or Place

  • Identify people who can help maintain health and safety in various contexts

  • Identify and demonstrate road safety behaviours and describe why they are important

  • Demonstrate fire safety behaviours and describe why they are important

  • Demonstrate sun safe behaviours and describe why they are important to protect the eyes and skin

  • Demonstrate water and local environmental safety behaviours and describe why they are important at home and in the community

  • Recognise that all data, including personal information and images, can be accessed by others when shared online

  • Identify ways to contribute to personal safety online and seek help from trusted adults when feeling unsafe

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