Description

Year 7 – 8 everyBODY Education program

Schools can choose from a range of topics to suit their needs. 
These 90 minute sessions are delivered by expert SHV educators to classes no larger than 27 students.
Face to face or online delivery available. Lecture style presentations are available on request.

Best practice Relationships and Sexuality Education recommend schools deliver a minimum 2 or more of the topics listed below each year in students’ home room groups. Parent sessions and professional development are strongly encouraged to support student outcomes in line with a whole school approach.

Available sessions:

Course Content

Puberty and reproduction

Consolidates information that may have been missed or not understood in primary school about human development and reproduction.
• review human sexual and reproductive anatomy
• develop an understanding of the physical, social and emotional changes that happen throughout puberty
• explore strategies for managing puberty
• identify links between conception, the progression of pregnancy and birth
• explore assisted reproductive techniques

Introduction to Contraception and Sexually Transmissible Infections (STIs).

Provides an overview to safer sex practices including consent.
• be introduced to safer sex practices
• become informed about the latest contraception options, methods of STI prevention and available health services

Healthy Relationships and Consent

Introduces themes of respect, consent, mutuality and communication as being key features of health interpersonal relationships.
• examine different types of relationships
• identify ways to begin and end relationships respectfully
• define the factors that make a relationship healthy or unhealthy

Diversity: Bodies, Gender, Sexuality

An introduction to understanding diversity of sex, sexuality and gender. Promoting acceptance and inclusion.
• define sexuality, gender, orientation, sex and identity
• examine gender stereotypes and the way they impact on identity and wellbeing
• explore the concepts of love, crushes, sexual attraction and sexual feelings

Socialising Online

Includes discussion of laws and ethics of interactions online. Specifically refers to sexual content online.
• Identify how to navigate social media safely, ethically and legally in regards to relationships and sexuality
• Critically review how sex and relationships are portrayed in the media, including porn
• Discuss laws and ethics of sharing sexual images