AC9HP10P08 Years 9 to 10 Health and Physical Education

Content descriptor plan, rehearse and evaluate strategies for managing situations where their own or others’ health, safety or wellbeing may be at risk

Elaborations

• • Elaboration critiquing the appropriateness and effectiveness of help and support services available for young people in the local community
• • Elaboration proposing and practising a range of realistic responses to scenarios where peers are encouraging them to take unnecessary risks, such as in relation to the use of e-cigarettes, cannabis, psychostimulants, opiates or hallucinogens
• • Elaboration investigating a range of behaviours to determine positive, safe, legal and ethical behaviour when using digital tools and environments and recognising what actions can be taken when behaviour becomes abusive
• • Elaboration planning and practising responses to emergencies where they may be required to administer first aid to a friend or stranger, including CPR
• • Elaboration understanding the factors that impact a person’s ability to seek, give or deny consent, including when a person is affected by alcohol and other drugs, or there is an imbalance of power or coercion within the relationship
• • Elaboration examining practices, policies and processes for ensuring safe blood practices in a range of situations, including not sharing needles, precautions when participating in physical activities and safe practices during sexual activity, including use of condoms and dams