Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships is an initiative which supports our school to promote and model respect, inclusion and equality. It also supports educators to explicitly teach our students how to build healthy relationships, resilience and emotional regulation strategies. This initiative is aligned with our three-week Social and Emotional curriculum planning cycle, tailored to the direct needs of all students.
Respectful Relationships
The Royal Commission on Family Violence identified the critical role that schools have in creating a culture of respect in order to change the story of family violence for future generations. Everyone involved in our school community deserves to be respected, valued, and treated equally.
We know that changes in attitudes and behaviours can be achieved when positive attitudes, behaviours and gender equality are lived across the school community, and when classroom learning is reinforced by what is modelled in our school community. Taking a whole-school approach is about embedding a culture of respect and equality across our entire school community. This approach leads to positive impacts on students’ academic outcomes, their mental health, classroom behaviour, and relationships between teachers and students.
Respectful Relationship lessons cover the following topics with age-appropriate content and resources for each year level:
- Emotional Literacy
- Personal Strengths
- Positive Coping
- Problem Solving
- Stress Management
- Help-seeking
- Gender and Identity
- Positive Gender Relations
More information can be found http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/Pages/respectfulrelationships.aspx
