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Bravehearts is a leader in personal safety education in Australia that focus on child protection training and education programs. As a school, we believe it is essential our students are educated on healthy relationships and consent, we work with Bravehearts to run sessions throughout the year for our Senior School students to learn about these important topics.
On Thursday 17 March and Friday 18 March, Years 8 and 9 students had an all-day incursion. We were visited by Bravehearts, an organisation that specialises in education and training around personal safety, positive relationships, consent, and boundaries.
We split off into two groups, each taken by one of Bravehearts’ kind presenters and began the day. We went over the rules of respect and confidentiality, before starting our busy day of learning. We were taught about healthy and unhealthy relationships, and how to distinguish between them.
We learnt how to spot ‘red flags’ and we listed what healthy or unhealthy relationships look, feel, think, and sound like.
We then covered personal boundaries and learnt how to safely communicate our boundaries to different people, with the magic of the ‘I statement’, along with the difference between aggressive and assertive. We had a short break, then got right back into it, learning about consent, sexting and the laws surrounding it in Victoria. We then figured out what is or is not consent in realistic situations. After lunch, we learnt how to seek help, and where you can go, as well as how to support a friend who may be going through it.
Overall, we had a fun, information-packed day of learning about many important issues, and we would all like to thank Bravehearts for coming to visit us and providing such a valuable day.
Libby
Year 9