Community action plan
Students develop ideas to contribute to a community action plan for promoting help-seeking at their school.
Year level
7-12
Duration
5 minutes
Type
In class activity
Year assembly activity
SEL Competencies
Social awareness
Responsible decision-making
Learning intention
Students know how to promote help-seeking at their school.
Key outcomes
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
identify practical ways to promote help-seeking at their school
contribute to a health promotion strategy at their school.
Materials needed
Post-it notes (three per student)
Pens
Mapped to
Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education
Plan and implement strategies, using health resources, to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing (AC9HP8P10)
Plan, rehearse and evaluate strategies for managing situations where their own or others’ health, safety or wellbeing may be at risk (AC9HP10P08)
Australian Curriculum: General Capabilities
Personal and Social Capability:
Social awareness
Social management
NSW PDHPE Syllabus
Examines and demonstrates the role help-seeking strategies and behaviours play in supporting themselves and others (PD4-2)
Assesses their own and others’ capacity to reflect on and respond positively to challenges (PD5-1)
Plans, implements and critiques strategies to promote health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity in their communities (PD5-7)
Victorian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education
Plan and use strategies and resources to enhance the health, safety and wellbeing of their communities(VCHPEP130)
Evaluate situations and propose appropriate emotional responses and then reflect on possible outcomes of different responses to health and wellbeing (VCHPEP147)
Activity 1
Instructions
5 minutes
Remind students of the importance of seeking professional help when concerned about their own mental health or that of a friend.
Provide each student with three Post-it notes. Ask students to write down three practical ways their school could promote and reduce the stigma around help-seeking. Place the notes on a whiteboard. Answers could include: normalise visits to the school counsellor; set up an information board; have mental health Fridays.
Cluster Post-it notes into key themes that can be recorded and shared with the SRC, student leadership group or executive wellbeing staff.
