Our School Programs align with the Health and Physical Education Curriculum, and the Personal and Social Capabilities of the Victorian Curriculum

Year Five & SIX

Our Year Five and Six program supports students to look at their behaviour from the lens of their relationships, as they explore the connection between their emotions and behaviour. Students will explore their impact and look at how to lead with greater compassion towards self and others.

Year 5:

  • Navigating social challenges

  • Feelings as information

  • Reacting Vs Responding

  • Becoming our own friend

  • Applying THINK

Year 6:

  • Challenging Friendship

  • Fitting in Vs Belonging

  • Understanding our responses

  • Different ways to look at things/Developing perspective

Links to Curriculum:

  • By the end of Level 6, students describe different ways to express emotions and the relationship between emotions and behaviour.

  • Students recognise and appreciate the uniqueness of all people.

  • They identify causes and effects of conflict and explain different strategies to defuse or resolve conflict situations.

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  • analysing situations in which emotions can influence decision making, including in peer-group, family and movement situations (CA, GS, RS, MH)

  • discussing how inappropriate emotional responses impact relationships at home and at school (MH, RS)

  • exploring why emotional responses can be unpredictable (RS, MH)

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  • exploring how individuals experience changing emotions and changing intensity of emotions, depending on the situation and day

  • predicting probable emotions and subsequent behaviours by interpreting body language

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  • working in groups to develop a tip sheet for achieving respectful relationships

Year Seven & EIGHT

Our important Year Seven and Eight program supports students to understand their emotional triggers and reflect on the emotional reactions of others. In this session we explore varying perspectives and our belief systems in order to highlight to students that we all have a story.

Year 7:

  • The cost of fitting in

  • We all have a story

  • What our behaviour says about us

  • Overcoming Worry and Self Doubt

  • Emotional Self Management Techniques

    Year 8:

  • Group Think

  • Looking behind behaviour

  • Addressing our impact

  • Owning our actions

  • Emotional Resilience

Links to Curriculum:

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  • investigating personal, social and cultural factors that influence the way individuals respond emotionally to different situations at home, school and in the community (MH, RS)

  • exploring different viewpoints, practising being empathetic and considering alternative ways to respond (RS, S, MH)

  • recognising and interpreting emotional responses to stressful situations at home and at school, and proposing strategies for managing these responses (MH, S, AD, RS)

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  • identifying the range of possible emotions in different scenarios and explore how these may be managed

  • identifying triggers that evoke different emotions

  • using ‘what if’ questions to explore a scenario to identify changing emotional responses

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  • brainstorming a list of values and beliefs and rank them in order of importance and compare with classmates

  • asking students to respond to a scenario individually, such as queue jumping, and comparing responses with classmates to explore differences in values and beliefs

YEAR NINE AND TEN

Our empowering Year Nine and Ten session focuses on Personal Leadership. During this session, students will reflect on how they show up, exploring the impact of their emotions and behaviours on self and others. Effective communication and emotional self-management techniques are also explored.

Students will learn about:

  • Emotional Intelligence and why it’s so important

  • Boundaries and building strong relationships

  • The art of perspective and compassion

  • Emotional Resilience and Well-being

  • Leading with your values

Link to Curriculum:

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  • proposing strategies for managing emotional responses and resolving conflict in a family or social situation or online environment (MH, RS, S)

  • evaluating situations at home and at schools where an individual may react with extreme emotion and reflecting on the impact that this response may have on the situation and/or their relationships (RS, MH)

  • analysing interactions where emotional responses may not be immediately apparent and reflecting on the possible consequences of not recognising the emotions involved (RS, MH)

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  • comparing emotions felt and expressed in a range of different scenarios and make recommendations about the preferred response, indicating the reasons for the recommendations

  • developing a guide for managing a range of emotions in different situations

  • rewriting a scenario to demonstrate alternative ways to express or manage emotions

  • discussing strategies that may be used to control emotional responses in different situations

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  • identifying factors that lead to improved confidence, adaptability and self-reflection

  • assessing a range of behaviours and the effect these have on their ability to adapt to challenges

  • identifying a challenging situation or task and analyse the factors that contribute to managing the situation or completing the task

  • developing questions to support self-reflection in relation to confidence and adaptability