K–6Personal Development, Health and Physical Education K–6 Syllabus
The new Personal Development, Health and Physical Education K−6 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2027.
2025 and 2026 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2027 – Start teaching the new syllabus
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts.
Content
Stage 2
- PH2-RRS-01
describes and applies skills and strategies to strengthen respectful relationships
- PH2-RRS-02
describes and applies skills and strategies to interact safely in offline and online contexts
Identify and describe rights and responsibilities in relationships
Describe and apply actions and behaviours that contribute to respectful relationships
Examine how stereotypes can influence attitudes
Identify types of conflict, including bullying and intimidation, and promote upstander behaviour offline and online
Explain how Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ connections to Country, Community and Culture strengthen relationships
Describe how connecting to family, people, groups, community organisations and places strengthens relationship and supports health and wellbeing
Identify people and places to seek help from when in unsafe situations
Practise assertive strategies and responses that promote protective behaviours in unsafe or risky situations offline and online
Describe emotional and physical signs associated with safe and unsafe situations and demonstrate ways to respond
Describe and apply strategies to assertively gain, give or deny consent and respect responses
Describe and apply strategies to support safety in the home, school and local community
Explain actions and strategies that Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples use to promote safety
Demonstrate road, fire and sun safety behaviours and explain how community messaging enhances safety
Demonstrate safety behaviours in water and local environments, and explain how they protect people
Recognise that medications or harmful substances can be used for medical and non-medical reasons
Identify emergency situations and describe how action plans support safety
Use written imperative sentences and modal words to explain and promote behaviours for staying safe in a road, water, fire or sun context
Describe the importance of protecting personal information online
Identify unsafe situations in online environments and describe how to seek help
Identify respectful digital citizen behaviours
Identify how and when to assertively gain, give or deny consent before information is shared online
Devise a set of guidelines for maintaining safety when online