Comprehensive Education
Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) is known by a few different names including Respectful Relationships & Consent Education and Health & Wellbeing Education.
Age appropriate
The International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education outlined eight key areas of RSE that all schools should address:
- Relationships
- Values, rights culture and sexuality
- Understanding gender
- Violence and staying safe
- Skills for health and well-being
- The human body and development
- Sexuality and sexual behaviour
- Sexual and reproductive health
It argues that all these concept areas can and should be addressed in age appropriate ways.

Research shows parents support RSE being taught in schools across a wide range of topics (Hendriks et al., 2023).
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The topics Respect Collective covers at each year level
The curriculum includes a large number of lessons at each year level that either directly or indirectly address one of the specific topics listed.
Year 7
- Puberty & Reproduction
- Friendships
- Online safety, including image based abuse
- Bystander intervention
- Communication, including persuasion and negotiation
- Consent, including non-sexual consent
Year 8
- Legislation
- Image based abuse, including sextortion
- Ethical decision making
- Healthy/Unhealthy relationships
- Gender equitable frameworks
- Consent, including online consent
Year 9
- Relationships and communication
- Healthy, unhealthy and abusive relationships
- Sexual activity and the law, including sexual harassment
- Myth-busting
- Online pornography
- Consent, including consent communication
Year 10
- Sexual health and safety
- Global perspectives
- Online relationships
- Coercive control
- Sexual readiness and decision making
- Increasing consent capacity
Year 11
- Alcohol, consent and sexual activity
- Stealthing and sexual violence prevention
- The impact of privilege
- Sexual health literacy
- Healthy and unhealthy relationships
- Consent, including sexual refusal and sexual negotiation
Year 12
- Drivers of sexual violence
- Responding to disclosures
- Seeking help and support
- Influences on sexual decision making
- Domestic and sexual violence
- Healthy sexual development, including consent
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