The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships curriculum teaches positive relationship skills to students in primary and secondary schools. 

Promoting social and emotional skills and positive gender norms directly impacts students’ physical and mental health, student-teacher relationships and classroom behaviour. It also reduces antisocial behaviours including engagement in gender-related violence.

Taking a whole-school approach is about embedding a culture of respect and gender equality throughout the entire school community. In Term 3, students in all classrooms across Axedale Primary School will be focussing on ‘Stress Management' and ‘Help-Seeking'. Below is a brief summary of each topic.

TOPIC 5: STRESS MANAGEMENT 

Students consider the causes of stress and develop a range of self-regulation and coping strategies they can draw on to manage stressful situations. Activities within this topic area will assist students to:

• recognise and identify their own emotions
• describe situations that may evoke strong emotions
• recognise and identify how their emotions can influence the way they feel and act
• develop self-regulation strategies

Students develop skills and knowledge for peer support, peer referral and help-seeking. Activities within this topic area will assist students to:

• identify situations that feel safe and unsafe
• identity when they may need to seek help and who they could approach for help
• discuss the importance of seeking help when dealing with problems that are too big to solve alone • practise seeking help from adults and peers.

For further information on each topic, please click on the link below:

Respectful Relationships: A Resource Kit for Victorian Schools | Resource | Arc