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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

Stage 3

Respectful relationships and safety
Manage respectful relationships to support health and wellbeing
  • Explain how rights and responsibilities contribute to respectful relationships

  • Explain and apply strategies to manage changes respectfully in relationships

  • Explain how stereotypes can influence relationships and the wellbeing of individuals and groups

  • Apply effective ways to resolve conflict and deal with bullying, discrimination and coercion offline and online

  • Investigate the importance of how celebrating and commemorating Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Cultures supports health and wellbeing

  • Explain ways to build positive connections within families, groups, community organisations and places to enhance health and wellbeing

Personal safety strategies enhance respectful relationships
  • Identify and explain how to communicate with and seek help from support networks when in unsafe situations

  • Apply strategies to enhance protective and upstander behaviours in unsafe or risky situations offline and online

  • Evaluate and apply strategies to respond to emotional or physically unsafe situations

  • Describe the right to be safe from abuse and identify protective strategies

  • Explain and demonstrate communication strategies to assertively gain, give or deny consent and respect responses

Informed decisions and strategies enhance safety
  • Analyse actions and strategies to maintain and enhance safety in the home, school and local environmental contexts

  • Investigate cultural safety and the impacts of this for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples and others

  • Apply road, fire and sun safety behaviours and identify influences that can impact decisions

  • Apply safety behaviours in water and local environments and identify ways to enhance community safety

  • Investigate the impact of harmful substances on personal and community health

  • Describe positive choices and actions that reduce risks associated with harmful substances

  • Describe the purpose of emergency plans and practice procedures to promote safety

Informed decisions and strategies enhance online safety
  • Identify and apply strategies to contribute to safety in online environments

  • Describe and demonstrate ways to report negative, harmful or unsafe situations to trusted adults or in online tools

  • Demonstrate and explain how respectful and responsible digital citizen behaviours enhance online safety

  • Demonstrate how and when to assertively gain, give or deny consent when sharing information online and promote help-seeking strategies

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