Relationship & Sexuality Education At WDSG

In Year 9 relationship & sexuality education is taught in Special B and the curriculum covers:

• Introduction to the health unit of work, making students feel at ease in the health classroom environment, classroom rules and student needs.
• Male & female reproductive anatomy.
• Defining relationships & qualities of relationships.
• Healthy & unhealthy relationships/ friendships & what’s important.
• Clarifying beliefs about love, understanding the beliefs of others & different types of love.

Body Care & Physical Safety - Drugs Education
In Year 9 drugs education is taught in Base 9 and the curriculum covers:

• Programme statement, knowledge of students and general drugs introduction.
• What is the problem? Why do people use drugs?
• Marijuana
• Alcohol. Well being & alcohol use
• Alcohol. Influences & changing minds. Sensible partying.
• Alcohol. Alcohol & the community. Misuse of alcohol & the law.
• Smoking. Facts about smoking. Effects of smoking. Contents of cigarette smoke. 
• Party pills. 
• Saying no, dealing with pressure & stress. Opinions of drugs as teenagers.

Food & Nutrition

Mental Health

Other Health Education - Attitude
ATTITUDE is the youth education division of Parents Inc., dedicated to creatively teach life skills that will assist teenagers to make life-enhancing choices. The inspirational programmes encompass all aspects of total wellbeing and are a preventative strategy to youth suicide, teen pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STI’s).

ATTITUDE provides health education programmes to high school students. Using a variety of media, and a sometimes lateral approach, ATTITUDE equips teenagers with the information and skills they will need to negotiate their adolescent years and build meaningful lives. The materials, based on credible research and linked to the health curriculum, give young people strategies for solving problems, handling stress and negotiating relationships.

Here at WDSG we use ATTITUDE to deliver the following presentations in terms 1 &3:
X Factor
Social Skills and ‘emotional intelligence’ – how to cultivate it, how to handle rejection and bullying, as well as keys to building healthy and happy relationships.

Get A Life
Teaching positive ways of individuating from parents, looking at what sort of parent they want to be in the future and how to learn the skills of a parent-coach. It aims to give insights into their current family dynamics as well as preparing them for future roles as parents.