​Respectful Relationships is a core component of the Victorian Curriculum from foundation right through to year 12, and is taught in all government and catholic schools, state-wide. It is an initiative to support schools to promote and model respect, positive attitudes and behaviours.
At NDPS we use the Department of Education’s Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships teaching and learning resource to guide us in teaching age appropriate and evidence-based lessons. This resource is broken into eight topics:
  1. Emotional Literacy
  2. Personal Strengths
  3. Positive Coping
  4. Stress Management
  5. Problem Solving
  6. Help Seeking
  7. Gender and Identity
  8. Positive Gender Relations
The aim is to develop students’ social and emotional capabilities to promote positive, healthy and respectful relationships.
It is our belief that everyone in our community deserves to be respected, accepted and treated with kindness.
We teach Respectful Relationships to:
  • provide a safe and supportive learning environment
  • promote and celebrate individuality
  • promote harmony prevent prejudice
We know that changes in attitudes and behaviours can be achieved when positive attitudes, behaviours and equality are embedded in our school and wider community. Together, we learn, and together we can lead the way to creating genuine and lasting change so that every student has the opportunity to reach their full potential.
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