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Student health and wellbeing
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Challenges and Choices
Challenges and Choices teaching and learning resources provide a range of activities for students from Pre-primary to Year 9. The materials provide practical, age-appropriate activities for students to help build confidence and skills to make safe choices about road safety and alcohol and other drug-related situations. The program provides teachers with a comprehensive toolkit to support a whole-school approach to road safety and drug education.
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Smart Steps – Early Childhood Road Safety
Smart Steps is a road safety program designed for early childhood educators. It provides practical resources to help young children develop the skills, behaviours and attitudes needed to stay safe as passengers, pedestrians and users of bikes and wheeled toys. Smart Steps resources are designed for use with children from birth to age 5, featuring age-appropriate content and messaging. They are aligned with the Early Years Learning Framework and the WA Kindergarten Curriculum. The program supports a whole-school approach to road safety education.
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Keys4Life
Keys4Life is a pre-driver education program for young people (Year 10 and above) in schools and other education settings that aims to build positive attitudes, resilience, and responsibility among future drivers. Students aged 15 and over who meet participation requirements can sit their learner’s permit theory test as part of the program. To become a registered Keys4Life teacher, staff must attend a professional learning workshop and have a current registration with the Teacher Registration Board of WA. Alternatively, non-teaching staff must hold a Bachelor of Education or a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
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School response and planning guidelines for students with suicidal behaviour and non-suicidal self-injury
The School response and planning guidelines for students with suicidal behaviour and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) have been developed to assist school staff to recognise, support and respond to suicidal behaviour and NSSI.
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eRideable teaching and learning resources
In recent years, the popularity of eRideable devices has been steadily increasing. Under Western Australian road safety laws, only individuals aged 16 and over are legally permitted to operate eRideables. This resource is designed to raise awareness of the laws and risks of using eRideable devices, such as eScooters.
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The Embrace Hub – body image and appreciation resources
The Department of Education has partnered with The Embrace Collective to provide teachers and schools with a suite of free, age-appropriate programs and resources to help school children appreciate their bodies.
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Address volatile substance use in school communities
A whole-of-community response is the most effective way to address volatile substance use (VSU).
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Vaping
Vaping is a growing concern for our parents and school communities. The Anti-Vaping Toolkit contains information about vaping and young people, and resources and strategies for schools to minimise vaping among students.
