Schools have an important role in creating a culture of respect to change the story of family violence and gender equality for future generations.
Respectful Relationships Education became a core component of the Victorian Curriculum from foundation to year 12, and is being taught in all government and Catholic schools and many independent schools.
Everyone in our 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 equality are embedded in our education settings.
Respectful Relationships is about embedding a culture of respect and equality across our entire community, from our classrooms to staff rooms, sporting fields, fetes and social events. This approach leads to positive impacts on a student’s academic outcomes, their mental health, classroom behaviour, and relationships between teachers and students.
TPS students have been developing their personal, social and emotional skills through a series of learning experiences. The topics that will be covered include: 1.Emotional Literacy, 2.Personal Strengths, 3.Positive Coping, 4.Problem Solving, 5.Stress Management, 6.Help-Seeking, 7.Gender and Identity and 8.Positive Gender Relations.
The Resilience and Rights components of the teaching and learning materials (Topic 1-6) help students develop the essential social and emotional skills, knowledge and understandings they need to have before addressing the concepts in Topic 7&8, which is the Respectful Relationships component of the program.
We are proud at Toorak Primary to recently be granted Lead School status in this initiative and support other schools to implement the program.
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