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Relationship Flags

This lesson encourages reflection on personal values, attitudes, and ability to recognise the signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships. 

Learning intentions:

  • Identify characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships
  • Understand the principles and corresponding behaviours that underpin healthy relationships
  • Develop strategies to manage and respond to unhealthy behaviours in an intimate partner
  • Know what support services are available to someone who is in an unhealthy or abusive relationship

Digital Educator: Vanessa

  • 12-30 learners

    Class size

  • 11+

    Year Level

  • 60 minutes

    Course duration

  • One

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    Safety & Wellbeing
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    In this Relationship Flags lesson, students will explore various elements of healthy and unhealthy relationships and how these manifest.

    They will begin with a personal reflection of their own values and boundaries in relationships. Students will expand on their personal ideas to explore foundational elements of healthy relationships, moving beyond words to examine what these elements look, sound, and feel like. Working in small groups, students will apply their knowledge to real world scenarios. 

    Each lesson ends with a consolidation activity, inviting students to list 1 thing they have learnt from the lesson, 1 thing they already knew, 1 piece of advice they would share with a friend, and 1 adult or organisation that would be helpful in relation to the lesson topic.

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    See The Signs campaign
    Not applicable. 
    Key Concept 1: Relationships
    1.2 Friendships, Love and Romantic Relationships.
    • Key idea: Romantic relationships can be strongly affected by inequality and differences in power (e.g. due to gender, age, economic, social or health status).
    • Key idea: There are healthy and unhealthy sexual relationships.


    Key Concept 2: Values, Rights, Culture and Sexuality 
    2.1 Values and Sexuality.
    • Key idea: It is important to know one’s own values, beliefs and attitudes, how they impact on the rights of others and how to stand up for them. 

    • There will be students in your class who have experienced domestic and family violence. If students are wanting to take on an OBSERVER role or not actively participate this is ok.
    • Monitor the gender dynamics through these discussions and challenge any outdated gender stereotypes that persist. Unhealthy relationships are driven by unequal gender dynamics and impact people in heterosexual and same gender relationships.
    • Be aware that many young people, especially those who struggle with friendships in the classroom may have very rich online relationships and connections. Encourage recognition of the diversity of human connection and the ways the characteristics of healthy, unhealthy and abuse relationships occur online and through technology.

    Ideally, you will have scope to deliver all of the lessons in your program. However we understand that many schools have limited capacity to do so.

    In Year 11 and 12 you can deliver lessons from either year level. It can be helpful for Year 12's to explore more foundational issues in the Year 11 curriculum. It is also beneficial for Year 11's to have access to more advanced lessons from the Year 12 curriculum.  

    Should you find yourself having to implement part of this program, we have provided a suggested sequence of lessons within the broader skills and knowledge categories of relationship, consent, gender, and health & legal literacy. We recommend delivering at least one lesson from each category.

    Group Agreements & Pod Mapping should be the first lesson as per best practice.

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