Primary: Prep to Year 6

Prep to Year 3: Keep Me Safe

Keep Me Safe teaches personal safety to young students in a healthy, positive way. It commences in Prep with the introductory lesson and builds on key focus areas through to the advanced lesson in year 3. The focus areas at each level remain the same but the activities and structure change as children develop their understanding and literacy.

Focus Areas

  • Helping students to identify types of touch
  • Recognise and name external public & private body parts
  • Developing an understanding of feelings & warning signs
  • Helping students to identify their personal safety network
  • Develop and understanding of bodily autonomy and consent
  • Includes the 'I have the right to be safe' booklet for children to take home and discuss with parents

Structure

  • 2 x 30 minute sessions
  • The program includes a variety of interactive experiences for students to enjoy, including class discussion, story time and colouring-in.
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Year 4: Looking After My Body

Looking after my body teachers personal safety to young students in a healthy, positive way. The program introduces skills that can help protect children from abuse. The program also begins to address changes during puberty as children may have body changes happening at this age. It is important for students to have relevant information before these changes occur.

Focus Areas

  • Support students to identify types of touch
  • Recognise and name external public & private body parts
  • Public/private bodies, places & activities
  • Understanding of feelings & warning signs
  • Develop and understanding of bodily autonomy and consent
  • Identifying a personal safety network
  • Physical, social and emotional changes as we grow
  • Looking after our bodies
  • Includes a booklet for children to take home

Structure

  • 2 x 60 minute sessions
  • The program includes a variety of interactive experiences for students to enjoy, including class discussion, story time and group activities.
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Years 5 & 6: My Lifecycle

True offers schools two options for Year 5 & 6 students: My Lifecycle, which is a shorter program or Growing Minds & Bodies, in which school teachers and True share the facilitation of a more comprehensive program.

My Lifecycle is a highly effective program that covers puberty, reproduction, decision making, healthy relationships, gender stereotypes and body image over two-year levels. Each year level receives two sessions by True's experienced educators. For schools that choose to have True work with just one year level, there will be a reduction in the topics covered.

Focus Areas

  • Physical, social and emotional changes of puberty
  • Looking after their body
  • Media and body image
  • Strategies for positive body image
  • Reproduction
  • Further develop understanding of bodily autonomy and consent
  • Healthy relationships, peer pressure and decision-making
  • Gender stereotypes
  • Q & A

Structure

  • 2 x 60 minute sessions
  • Sessions are delivered by a True educator
  • The program includes a variety of interactive experiences for students including class discussion, a quiz and group work.

Years 5 & 6: Growing Minds & Bodies

Growing Minds & Bodies is a thorough, 4-hour course in which True's educators work in partnership with the class teacher. The development of the teacher's capabilities is an important outcome of the program, as they become more comfortable with conversations with students on growing and change. Teachers undertake professional development with True, after which they facilitate the first three sessions of the course. These sessions cover:

  • Respectful relationships
  • Decision-making (and peer pressure)
  • Media and body image
  • Puberty

True's educators then deliver the final session on puberty.

Focus Areas

  • Identifying healthy and unhealthy relationships
  • Influences on and consequences of decisions
  • Peer pressure and decision-making
  • Physical, social and emotional changes of puberty
  • Looking after their body
  • Understanding the media's influence on body perception
  • Strategies for positive body image
  • Q & A

Structure

  • 1 x 2 hour professional development for teachers
  • 4 x 60 minute sessions (3 x teacher, 1 x True)
  • The program includes a variety of interactive experiences for students including class discussion, a quiz and group work.
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