Name
E.04 Investigating Consent- Secondary Years
Date & Time
Friday, November 21, 2025, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speakers
Description
This workshop looks to help participants navigate the realities of relationships, consent, and communication in the secondary years (particularly senior secondary). Participants will explore concepts to enhance the safety and wellbeing for students- embedding strategies across their school around respecting boundaries and choices, gaining affirmative consent, assertive communication and respecting individuals’ rights.
Mapped to the secondary curriculum, with links to VCE HHD Unit 1, the session looks to give practical strategies around whole school approaches to connecting consent and boundaries to safety for students and the whole school community.
Learning Objective
• Investigate how the balance of power influences the nature of relationships and consider what actions that can be taken when a relationship is not respectful
• Unpack the legal requirements (law) in relation to seeking, giving, refusing and accepting the refusal of consent, and consider how these laws relate to relationships with friends, colleagues, strangers and intimate partners, in both online and offline interactions
• Consider approaches and connections that can be used across the school to embed healthy connections, an understanding of rights and responsibilities and help-seeking strategies for the whole school community
• Unpack the legal requirements (law) in relation to seeking, giving, refusing and accepting the refusal of consent, and consider how these laws relate to relationships with friends, colleagues, strangers and intimate partners, in both online and offline interactions
• Consider approaches and connections that can be used across the school to embed healthy connections, an understanding of rights and responsibilities and help-seeking strategies for the whole school community
Curriculum Level
VCE ALLOC
Presentation Type
Interactive Workshop (classroom)